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Alternative YouTube clients having issues loading videos (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Templa@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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It seems YT started another attempt at blocking alternative clients. They changed something in their API and both SmartTube and Tubular (NewPipe fork) are completely broken. Apparently it started happening this past week, but we personally just felt it today.

Edit: SmartTube already has an update but still not working for 4K videos it seems. Tubular still not working but it might be due to the upstream (NewPipe) is still working on a fix.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

New pipe has issues too

Freetube still working

The arms race is on!

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 11 points 2 months ago

I don't think google can win this without serverely limiting access to Youtube

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agreed, but they can cause lots of friction to encourage people to use the official apps.

For now mull plus ublock origin are working on my phone.

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

That's exactly their goal.

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

YouTube dlp also broken.

[-] fwygon@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

YT-DLP fixed already; I use it locally in conjunction with MPC-HC.

yt-dlp -U or yt-dlp -U nightly

Or download latest nightly.

yt-dlp version nightly@2024.07.09.232843 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [d2189d3d3]

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Freetube still working

Freetube is broken. It only works if you use the Invidious API, but the FreeTube API is broken at the moment. They created a fix, but it did not reach me yet on the Flatpak / Flathub version.

[-] fwygon@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Freetube does work; it simply requires you switch to the Invidious API or have "Fallback to non-preferred API on Failure" enabled. (which honestly you always should have this setting ON).

Personally; I refuse to change my preferred API; so the "Fallback to non-preferred API on Failure" just works.

also yt-dlp does work but you need to upgrade to latest nightly/build.

yt-dlp version nightly@2024.07.09.232843 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [d2189d3d3]

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