Invidious not working in Freetube but works in browser

[GatzeTech]

One of the main reasons to be able completely move to freetube from youtube is that once in a while I get this message:

Error: YouTube has blocked your IP address from watching videos. Please try switching to a different VPN or proxy.

Falling Back to Invidious API

Invidious API error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'A', "API disabled" is not valid JSON
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If I open a New Private Window in Firefox and want watch a video then I get the following message:

Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot

That is the problem.

The thing is that I would expect freetube to fallback to invidious, but it's not working, but when I try it in the browser it works, so I would expect that it also works in Freetube. Anybody an idea why this is ?

[absidue]

If you want to use Invidious in FreeTube you need to choose an Invidious instance that has the API enabled, which means hosting your own Invidious instance as all of the public ones have disabled their APIs.

[GatzeTech]

But why is freetube making note of these public instance's with 'View all Invidious instance information' in the general setting page while at the same time these are not usable ?

That's a bit confusing, it pretends you can use them as a fallback when the local API is not working.

[absidue]

That is the official list of public instances, that list is maintained by the Invidious project and the instances on that list all still work in the browser. FreeTube links to that list as in the past there were public instances with API support enabled, but thanks to YouTube making it harder to run an Invidious instance and AI bots ruining the internet, they had to disable API support to try and keep the instances running.

FreeTube doesn't tell you those instance will work, in fact if you look at the list properly, you'll notice that they all have a red cross in the API column.

[absidue]

You can still use Invidious as a fallback if you run your own instance and enable the API on it. It will be disabled by default in future releases.

[GatzeTech]

I understand now and the issue with it and thanks for maintaining. It's just that I searched for a solution, but youtube is making it hard sometime's