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[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

I have been using freetube for a while now which is also facing this issue so it looks like a tug of war between the clients and YouTube which is getting others in the crossfire as well. But for some reason, when I add haruna as external player in freetube and launch a video it always works. Guessing other video players like vlc might also work which you can use with freetube and maybe other privacy focused clients.

[–] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago

I thought about making an *arr application for automating the downloading of your subscribed youtube channels and in quality you want. I want to call it yarrtube. Idk if anyone would be interested or not so only been a pipe dream.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Copy URL, yt-dlp <dat URL>.

[–] adub@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp mpv <dat URL>

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm once again asking you to host Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend) locally on your PC.

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The real problem is that it's a pain sometimes and the fact they suggest to restart every hour is even worse. Recently, I had a problem where it started to play some videos and then stopped the playback and from there it went in a reloading loop till you get something like

Refreshing does nothing. Restarting is the same

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

IDK about invidious, but on Piped I had to add a container that grabs POtokens for the Newpipe API to use to pull videos.

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[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

POV 3 years from now: YouTube won’t let me watch a video unless I do a nazi salute

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] redacted2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

no desktop for newpipe? is it just the android app?

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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I mean that's a way to check for bots

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Grayjay can get around that issue in most cases.

https://grayjay.app/

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately that is proprietary software, i.e. it restricts the users four essential freedoms :/

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Meh, as long as it works... I can always switch off grayjay. And the source is available

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's source available, not open source.

It severely limits what can legally be done by restricting modifications and prohibiting "commercial" distribution:

You may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.

You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.

Non-commercial purposes is extremely vague by the way. Depending on the country - or even the court in a country - nearly everything distributed on the internet is for commercial purposes.

For example, in Germany, only commercial websites have to put up a legal disclosure consisting of address, full name, phone number and email. Yet courts have ruled that every single website that is available to the public is "commercial" - only private webpages available to a handful of people are non-commercial. If anyone redistributed the software in Germany this license would be grounds for a successful lawsuit.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

If you click Cancel and then simply search for the same video you can watch it without signing in. Total horseshit but still a good ‘fuck you’ move against YouTube.

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

freetube for windows and linux. newpipe for android.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm having the same issue on Freetube, it pops up and says it can't play the video because Youtube requires being signed in. Sometimes if I retry a couple of time it'll play, but usually keeps getting the same error. Freetube is great though, maybe they'll come up with a solution soon.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.

Edit: with or without VPN makes no difference either

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately this has been going on few several months now. YT is actively blocking IPs if they think they are from data centers, VPNs, or proxies.

They've also been doing some under the hood cryptographic changes that cause breakages from time to time in Invidious (the backend for FreeTube)

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I had a private invidious instance, with the bad idea to be attached with my paid domain, and even it was private , google crawl bots listed it into the Google Safe Browsing blacklist. In consequence, my domain admin (NJALLA) banned me: i had 1 year paid, they didn't refund, and imagine the disaster in all my self hosted apps.

oh shit, I did not even consider that could happen. I uh... need to go tear down an instance I don't really use anymore.

Oh my god, same! I've been using it for a week or so thanks to Lemmy and it stopped working yesterday.

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

So bots just have to sign in?

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Happens to me only when I use my VPN.

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago

your VPN IP is blacklisted

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

I’ve just stopped watching. Plenty of other stuff to do. If they don’t want to show me their ads that’s their problem.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As someone without a YT account, I have seen this with regards to age verification (on rather random videos, actually), but not with "you might be a bot" reason.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Since I always browse with VPN + lots of privacy protections, I feel like half the websites I visit think I’m a bot. It’s a pain in the arse.

[–] graphene@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Turns out reCAPTCHAs aren't actually 'tracking the way you move your mouse' but just trying to match you to one of the billions of statistical models held in Google datacenters that represent the device fingerprints, personalities, locations, and preferences of every Internet user they track.

And when they fail to match you… then they presume you're not a real person.

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[–] Manalith@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is usually because they're using a common VPN service. I've found that connecting to Ireland gets me past this prompt more often than not, but that likely won't last long.

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