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I mean that's a way to check for bots
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.
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.
POV 3 years from now: YouTube won’t let me watch a video unless I do a nazi salute
Grayjay can get around that issue in most cases.
Unfortunately that is proprietary software, i.e. it restricts the users four essential freedoms :/
Meh, as long as it works... I can always switch off grayjay. And the source is available
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freetube for windows and linux. newpipe for android.
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.
Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.
Edit: with or without VPN makes no difference either
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)
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Make sure you update freetube frequently
Unfortunately, neither fixes this. Grayjay seems to work, but its inconsistent in my experience, often repeatedly returning to the beginning of the video part-way through.
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So bots just have to sign in?
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.
I'm once again asking you to host Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend) locally on your PC.
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
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How does one embark on such a journey?
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.
Copy URL, yt-dlp <dat URL>.
I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp mpv <dat URL>
this is likely youtube's way of trying to persuade people into making an account, without going public that they are forcing people to make accounts.
I found it does that if im logged out on a VPN, but standard residential IP's it doesn't with.
I assume eventually it's going to just require a google account to use the service period
I only speak for myself but the day they require it, bye. I'll miss the creators that I follow but the ones I directly patron through other ways, I'll watch elsewhere. I get that servers cost money but Google isn't losing money, they just want more.
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That's been happening to me lately also. I've used NewPipe on Android to get around to.
Have a look at peertube, it's gotten to a point where it can definitely supplement YT.
I’m deaf and the large majority of peertube videos don’t have captions :/
hmmm should probably find their request list and vote up AI captioning
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Peertube is great, I wish more people started uploading their content to it
Happens to me every now and then, I just switch vpn servers, then it works fine. It's inconsistent, the same server that was suspicious one day is fine the next. I'm guessing it depends on how many youtube videos are being streamed on that particular sever at that time
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FreeTube isn't working for IP related issues atm, I'm having more luck with NewPipe.
(edit) Fix in the latest update!
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