newpipe, freetube and yt-dlp not working anymore
yt-dlp or embedded youtube links say "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot" but for me the whole plan of this operation is that i don't have to do that.
that's pretty bad
(edit: it works again, i changed nothing just waited)
This is network-specific. It's been going on for a few months at least. yt-dlp itself still works without sign-in, if your network is not "suspicious".
Always worth making sure you're updated to the latest version of yt-dlp, but this is probably a network thing.
yt-dlp hasn't worked for me for a few months on Mullvad. Using Swiss and Swedish servers but I've tried a couple other countries too, same problem.
Pipepipe still works for me, I don't have to sign in
true, that works for me. but having this moment where all of my default methods did not work was kind of scary. In the end all these methods are only temporary solutions and i think i should find more ways to completely ditch youtube
I'm watching Freetube right now, still working. v0.23.3
Hi, your IP is banned. lol
are you really? thanks for your service. 🫡
Lately I've been using grayjay, going fine
Yep, found it about a year ago and never looked back. Its actually funded by futo which i think is owned by Yahoo. Hopefully it stays around for a while.
It is currently only owned by Eron Wolf, which is stated in their FAQ: https://futo.org/about/futo-faq/
I get that when I'm usong a VPN. If I turn ot off, Tubular works agaim.
I just tried Newpipe to double check, it works fine for me
Grayjay...
Does grayjay let you block channels on youtube? I've been using freetube and pipepipe due to the ability to block channels.
I really want to like grayjay (love Louis and his philosophy), but the perma dark mode kills it for me. I don't understand how some people enjoy that, it's so depressing.
I had this same issue the other day where none of my videos in new pipe would work and I found out that it was because YouTube wanted me to sign in and I'm assuming that that's the next phase of them trying to kick us off is just not serving people who do not have an account. So I would expect this to only increase over time. YouTube is about to end up the same way Facebook is where if you do not have an account you can't even look at anything on the service itself I would just about bet you that.
Because who doesn't have or doesn't want a Google account, right? /s
Edit: It's happening again right now, as a matter of fact.
that's the next phase of them trying to kick us off is just not serving people who do not have an account. So I would expect this to only increase over time.
A losing business model considering the growing amount of people who are sick and tired of the aggressive ad placements all YouTube.
Kicking out everyone who doesn't log into a Google account would lead to an immediate loss in viewership throughout the month/year, and that wouldn't do well with investors.
I just go idle for a week or two and it works again. It seems like a soft IP block. I use a IPv4 address for yt-dlp so CGNAT sort of works in my favor here.
I really, really, really want to like peer tube. I mean, I truly, honestly do. But, at least currently, I can't find any of the content I want to watch on it. lemmy and Mastodon have reached a critical mass where there is enough content to not need other services. Peertube is not to that point. My guess is that it is due to the fact of the bandwidth and storage needed to host the video and the fact that video content takes more effort to create.
"Allo, IT? Have you tried turning it off and on again?" ;)
yt-dlp -U ?
Got this on newpipe for a bit earlier today (failure to load, not a demand to sign in), but it started working again a few hours later.
sign in to confirm you are not a bot.
ive been getting the same error, even on regular youtube frontend. it usually goes away after a while.
I'm using an VPN and i get that daily. After switching Servers and rebboting the app it works
Their just mad they can't track you as much. Switch VPN locations it takes sometimes many servers. Fuck them. Network issue.
So annoying. I have to restart Freetube so many times to play a video.
Glad to hear it's working for you again. I did look around on yt-dlp's github issue tracker and found one issue where the problem was that a user was downloading using a datacenter IP. I gather from this that it might've been a problem caused by your ISP perhaps giving you an IP that youtube sees as suspicious, or perhaps youtube messing up with their filters causing you to appear as suspicious by accident.
Good luck with your studies btw.
If you're using a VPN try connecting to a server in Albania, I've never had issues when connected from there for yt
I sometimes get this with Mullvad in official YouTube app as well.
Haven't checked today since I woke up and went to work. But the post is 14 hours old, which means when it was posted I was happily watching some Red Letter Media on Freetube last night. So working fine for me (then at least). Will check when I'm home.
Newpipe works for me, though im not using the release version. Edit2: nvrmind just had to wipe meta data cache and it works again.
I recommend letting content creators about this and suggesting alternatives, e.g. PeerTube instances, Vimeo, etc.
I'm also having problems with Metrolist (YT Music) with songs not already in cache. It just stays there until I skip the song.
Try grayjay. It lets you use an account to bypass the block
Free tube has never worked for me so i just use Invidious
Grayjay still works
I use Bravepipe. It is working great. You can also consolidate removedute and rumble feeds with youtube.
Confirmed no issues with Bravepipe.
Watching YT works fine on desktop in the SMplayer or searching the Video with Andisearch and watch it there in the search result, sandboxed with random proxy.