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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Seems like it doesn't work as of today

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Youtube have been cracking down on all sort of third party clients lately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

NewPipe and Freetube are working fine tho

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@TwinTusks @w00t

Looks like yesterday Youtube simply stopped serving the format 22 (ytdl -f22, IIRC that was 480p video+audio) on all videos, so now anything that had this format selected as default is failing (@invidious). -f18 is still there (360p).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Interesting, but I been having issues with frontends for days now,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're locking down on IPs which consume traffic like a bot/ alternate distribution platforms like Invidious instances. AFAIK the softwares itself isn't blocked. Please try and correct everyone you see on this forum who says otherwise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@MigratingtoLemmy you are wrong though. They are adding tokens and signatures, without them the videos aren't playing. But I just updated my invidious and it's playing fine again => it's not an IP block (yet), it is a change in the youtube media api, so the players need to be changed too = effectively a player block.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TBH unless this is a coordinated effort against Invidious and other apps or should affect a lot of other things too. Or does this change not affect embedded media in pages?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@MigratingtoLemmy Yesterday I saw a broken embedded video on LinkedIn so.....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh well. Thanks for correcting me. I guess they're trying to play hard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@MigratingtoLemmy Yup, there are even some similarities from the Twitter/Nitter fight - tracking tokens, IP blocks, API limits, ... Get ready for youtube requiring login to watch videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm heading over to Odyssey/Peertube the second they tell me to sign in to watch videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

@w00t @sag

This fixed the problem for invidious, maybe RustyTube needs something similar https://github.com/iv-org/inv_sig_helper