You can still self-host Invidious. I’m doing this for 1-2 weeks without any problems. What does not work: Public instances hosted in data centers, because YouTube blocked lots of cloud IPs.
Because I frequently use mpv, yt-dlp or a combination of both, the value I find in Invidious is in being able to conduct video searches against Youtube. And luckily that still works on public instances.
You can still self-host Invidious. I’m doing this for 1-2 weeks without any problems. What does not work: Public instances hosted in data centers, because YouTube blocked lots of cloud IPs.
Because I frequently use mpv, yt-dlp or a combination of both, the value I find in Invidious is in being able to conduct video searches against Youtube. And luckily that still works on public instances.