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submitted 1 year ago by negativenull@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Most servers are not able to access the Google API.

Invidious report of the same(ish) problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4045#issuecomment-1674373088

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[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 year ago

They are definitely in a crackdown phase. Some revanced versions stopped working just yesterday, the yt-dlp stuff, the ad block block...

The best hope would be to get off of YouTube but that's not happening any time soon given how expensive bandwidth is.

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I updated mine last week cuz it was stopping videos a minute in. Seems to work for now.

[-] pazzeda@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Had the same issue, updating the patches via the manager worked.

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Same. Used the latest YouTube APK that Revanced manager wanted (which is 3 versions back).

I figure this is something that needs to be refreshed every so often.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Any kind of federated alternative would have to use P2P in some way, and I'm not sure how well that would work. Peertube appears to be exactly that, but testing a video just now showed that it was all from servers and none from peers, so how well it would work with thousands or millions of people watching at once, I can't say.

If I watch something, I'm happy for my outgoing bandwidth to be the cost for that. Most of us have plenty of that to spare, even if my patience for adverts is zero.

How would content creators be paid? Not my problem, but being paid by advertising has not lead to an improvement in content for the most part. Shovelling out videos with zero actual real content is not something I want to encourage.

[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 4 points 1 year ago

what happened to yt-dlp?

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