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
Copy URL,
yt-dlp <dat URL>.I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp
mpv <dat URL>
I mean that’s a way to check for bots
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
IDK about invidious, but on Piped I had to add a container that grabs POtokens for the Newpipe API to use to pull videos.
For me, it’s running for months and I had to load new image updates sometimes, because YouTube likes to break it, but this was maybe once a month…
Most of the times it works but sometimes it’s just a pain to deal with the problem I mentioned. Do you restart it once in a while?
Maybe, once a month when YouTube breaks their site and a video does not load via Invidious, I execute
docker compose pull docker compose down docker compose up -dto load the latest images and usually, it works again.
I have no automated restarts every few hours or days.
I have to see and solve this
How does one embark on such a journey?
Quite easy with Docker: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-method-production
Newpipe is working
no desktop for newpipe? is it just the android app?
You can use Waydroid
There is Piped, which is a web version of NewPipe
Huge, got worried
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.
Grayjay can get around that issue in most cases.
Unfortunately that is proprietary software, i.e. it restricts the users four essential freedoms :/
Whats wrong with it? its open source: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
It’s source available, not open source.
It severely limits what can legally be done by restricting modifications and prohibiting “commercial” distribution:
You may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.
You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
Non-commercial purposes is extremely vague by the way. Depending on the country - or even the court in a country - nearly everything distributed on the internet is for commercial purposes.
For example, in Germany, only commercial websites have to put up a legal disclosure consisting of address, full name, phone number and email. Yet courts have ruled that every single website that is available to the public is “commercial” - only private webpages available to a handful of people are non-commercial. If anyone redistributed the software in Germany this license would be grounds for a successful lawsuit.
Meh, as long as it works… I can always switch off grayjay. And the source is available
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
Oh my god, same! I’ve been using it for a week or so thanks to Lemmy and it stopped working yesterday.
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)
I had a private invidious instance, with the bad idea to be attached with my paid domain, and even it was private , google crawl bots listed it into the Google Safe Browsing blacklist. In consequence, my domain admin (NJALLA) banned me: i had 1 year paid, they didn’t refund, and imagine the disaster in all my self hosted apps.
oh shit, I did not even consider that could happen. I uh… need to go tear down an instance I don’t really use anymore.
Make sure you update freetube frequently
Yep, I’m on the latest version.
Damn that is annoying then
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.
Grayjay is useless on Linux. Every video suddenly stops halfway and you need to reload. Same for every video. Talking about music videos, 5-6 min long.
Freetube is a Invidious client. Newpipe has its own build in scraper
So bots just have to sign in?
Happens to me only when I use my VPN.
your VPN IP is blacklisted
I was about to leave the same comment
Seconded.
Don’t use a VPN?
What good is doing anyway? Tracking happens mostly outside if IP address. Even at that your IP address is probably dynamic.
Really? I’m pretty sure I’m being IP tracked by companies like google.
It is one data point out of thousands.
I routinely see people using a VPN while signing in to online services
I usually don’t use one for browsing, and not for privacy reasons.
I have a wireguard hub-and-spoke configuration with my VPS as hub to
- Let my VPS act as a reverse proxy to my home servers
- Not have to expose ssh on my VPS to the public internet
- Easily reach all my home servers when I travel
- Route traffic through my VPS when I’m on sketchy open WiFi. Which is when I’ve encountered OP’s sign-in requirement.
As someone without a YT account, I have seen this with regards to age verification (on rather random videos, actually), but not with “you might be a bot” reason.
Since I always browse with VPN + lots of privacy protections, I feel like half the websites I visit think I’m a bot. It’s a pain in the arse.
Turns out reCAPTCHAs aren’t actually ‘tracking the way you move your mouse’ but just trying to match you to one of the billions of statistical models held in Google datacenters that represent the device fingerprints, personalities, locations, and preferences of every Internet user they track.
And when they fail to match you… then they presume you’re not a real person.
Just turn off these plugins and VPN boy, it is safe here 🤡
This is usually because they’re using a common VPN service. I’ve found that connecting to Ireland gets me past this prompt more often than not, but that likely won’t last long.
VPN Ireland has been my go-to for years. If it stops I’m gonna be pissed.
Have had some success just by reloading the page when I get this message
Revance it
Revanced still uses microG
