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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 171 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I always somehow miss when it stops working and by the time I go to YouTube again it's already working again.

Blessings to Gorhill

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 months ago

don't forget the list maintainers

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 86 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Friends don't let friends deal with YouTube's website.
NewPipe
FreeTube

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We're friends?

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

👉👈

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

we’re all friends here

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also relevant:

  • alternate frontends (e.g. Invidious and Piped)
  • yt-dlp🔗 (youtube downloader, can also be used to stream videos into players like mpv)
[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something

[–] sag@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Self-Hosting is the only option right now.

[–] N00b22@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

PipePipe in case NewPipe can't load the video because it requires sign in

[–] Chev@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

There is no option to sign in on NewPipe. NewPipe works perfectly for me for years now. I even use the Sponsorblock Fork to skip the sponsored segments from the Video Creators

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Well, down the list we go...

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Don't forget Smarttube

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

FreeTube breaks regularly and doesn't have support for higher resolutions.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

I've been watching 4k on it lately

[–] jkozaka@lemm.ee 65 points 2 months ago

It was fixed in mere minutes

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Can anyone tell me why my "purge cache" button is missing? I thought i was crazy

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ads aside, what's been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the "1080p Enhanced Bitrate"; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don't have Premium, but I'm fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would've been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing they're going to use the classic method of increasing the subscription price and then later creating a new lite subscription that does have some ads.

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From everything I've read, it seems they didn't actually reduce quality and it's just placebo from the introduction of the premium bitrate option.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Could be, I don't know. I doubt that video creators would go through all of these old videos just to update them to a slightly higher bitrate; the other possibility is that YouTube kept the original uploads or higher bitrate variants without previously showing them (and only showed them now), but that seems like a huge waste of storage, so it seems unlikely to me. Again, we're talking about old uploads (2-3 or up to 10 years ago), not new ones.

The one thing I've seen that makes sense is updating old videos that were previously available at up to 480p and bringing them up to 720p or 1080p (with the idea of keeping the original published video with the views, comments and so on instead of uploading a new one).

[–] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

I was so happy to find this post, and was saddened again to see that I didn't have this button available when I needed it hahahaha

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.

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[–] teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I've never even seen that before with unlock on firefox

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