Anubis rarely ever annoys me (I still prefer it over cloudflare’s Mitm) but this specific visit feels almost vindictive. It used half my CPU cores at full blast for three straight minutes.

It seems to be effective since I can’t really “bypass” it with extensions, so AI crawlers probably can’t either, but damn there really should be an option to complete a manual captcha or email the administrators to complain.

As I’m typing this the challenge is still running xD

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 hours ago

      This is every scraper for YouTube.

      The only applications that I’ve ever seen reliably access YouTube are the ones that work by patching the YouTube app and then using what the app would do.

      Applications like invidious or Grayjay almost always have a 15 to 30 second delay before any video.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 hours ago

      Public invidious instances are more a proof of concept, its much more performant to run it yourself.

        • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          3 hours ago

          The last part of the url is still the same Video id from youtube. You can copy that in whichever you use.

          The internet actually really needs an overhaul to how links are presented. So you can press a video link and opening in the compatible player you prefer.

          Same issue exists on lemmy. A link will send you to the instance of the poster, we have special ! Links to bridge the gap but i can never remember how to use em.

          • Pika@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            3 hours ago

            Technically, the internet already has what you’re looking for. It’s just not really standardized for video media.

            The beginning of the URL or the schema is already able to on most mainstream OS be controlled by a specific application.

            There’s nothing really stopping anyone from making it so there’s a video:// schema, and then configuring a schema handler to handle it. on Debian it would be a single desktop file with a MimeType=x-scheme-handler/video line indicating that type of url should be opened with that desktop file. I had to configure it for vortex to get it to open mod links, I never knew how easy that was