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[–] [email protected] 113 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I updated the docker image and still getting this error . It's been a few days like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Seems like some people are having issues while others aren't, maybe it's just a game of IP tag.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago

They've been doing it for a while. Since June of last year or something. They have ipv6 rotation tools to get around it now. But youtube is basically ip banning instances.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago

Its fixed now

[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Invidious uses scraping instead of the official Youtube API, so this is expected to happen from time to time..

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Google is going to keep finding ways to break these front-ends as they search for ways other than ads to monetize their services. I fully expect they will eventually lockout the public API so only the official app can use it in that quest as well. In my opinion the front-ends are just a bandaid and the real solution is something other than YouTube completely, if that is even possible at this point.

All of the front-end solutions are telling Google is that people want that content and they will come to YouTube for it one way or the other, Google just needs to figure out how to force people down the workflow that gets them the most money.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Invidious does not rely on the api, its a scraper

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wasn’t talking about Invidious with that bit of my comment as I am aware they don’t use the api. I meant for things that do use the api.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

The only actual solution is switching to open/public infrastructures.

Nothing else is an actual solution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That would be a really fast way for me to stop spending any of my time on youtube I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully it gets sorted out soon. I wish if I HAD to pay money for youtube I could do it in a way thats data respecting.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's already fixed with the March 31st release. Some instances are just not updated yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (5 children)

They broke everything even revanced, had to scour for a new patch since only newpipe still worked but I can't access the watch later playlist on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The moment I notived revanced has stopped working for me a new version was already available that worked. I guess ot might've been a staged rollout?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Revanced has been crashing for me every single time I try to patch something, is that why? 🤔 I was gonna submit a bug report tomorrow.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Too late, one small change and it works. Just some params.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

Remember when you didn't have to red queen your hacker shit to watch funny videos?

God I feel old. I'm so sick of this shit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

NewPipe still works

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

The change the Youtube front end code now and then, breaking yt-dlp temporarily until someone checks in a patch.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When i noticed i checked the github to see there was an active bug report.

24 hours later they where talking about a fix that was on its way.

I updated this morning and all is well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Okay but imagine if you didn't have all this wasted oppositional bullshit, and we just built open architectures.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

It seems clear they don't want us using their site with videos.

I think publishing video files on the Web is not some unique know-how.

By the way, neither is search, neither are ratings.

And "being in the same space" with the rest of the world is an illusion due to the way recommendations work there. I mean, it's sufficient to look at the views counter under a video and combine it with some other numbers to realize this.

Freedom is so close. It's not in defeating the network effect, it's in realizing that it's fucking useless in anything but scaring us away from leaving trap spaces.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What are you even talking about?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Seems like something like Gray Jay is a very easy way to transition off of these sources, too. Just have a source agnostic player.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You say this- many people do but no one has made an alternative? So no it isn't easy to make a video streaming site. Everyone just say "it's too popular" that it has the entire audience but no, there just isn't any good alternative anywhere. People don't get how fast everyone would switch and how little anyone would look back if there was just any good alternative. Make one! Stop saying it's easy and make one! You figure out how to stream consistently and have these response times and these peripheral functions if it's so easy! It's not easy. They obviously have a superior product and is now enshittening it so they can milk money from it

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Not sure if it's related, but my youtube revanced installation was also not working. I had to repatch again using the most recent patch.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It says that Piped is affected as well. This is probably a dumb question from me, but I use NewPipe in my phone to access YT - and it did not cause any trouble yet. I heard that the Piped project also uses NewPipe Extractor under the hood (which basically scrapes YT website). So why would Piped break but not NewPipe ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

This sort of cat and mouse style thing is completely expected, almost designed for period it's no big deal when it happens. It's only a big deal when it's still going on many days later

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This post has been active longer then it took to deploy a fix, which was out before this article came out.

Get fucked youtube

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Unless Google implements a severe restriction on access to the YouTube API or imposes the requirement to be logged in to a verified Google account, every solution will not be 100%

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Why am I not surprised?

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