That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        11 months ago

        This is all I get for the last week or so, no matter which video I try to open. I was about to delete the app for that. How is yours still working?

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Far as I can tell, that’s the one I get when opening in Firefox and then switching to desktop mode.

          Everything except geo-blocked vids works perfectly now that I have NewPipe set as the default app for all YouTube links, though, are you sure yours is updated?

          • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            11 months ago

            I use the same setup as you, opening all YouTube links in the app. I just checked again, I have the latest fdroid version which is 3 weeks old and the issue persists, also did a reinstall for good measure.

            I also have the tubular fork installed from the latest apk, and it has the exact same issue.

            I also tried from different locations via VPN but nothing helps :/

        • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Have you updated recently? A few weeks ago there were some changes to YouTube that basically shut down newpipe and other similar clients, but an update should have fixed that.

        • atlas@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          11 months ago

          So this caused me to go digging as I’ve run into the same issue. Make sure it’s up to date first obviously, and if it still refuses to function, their page has fixes which ended working for me:

          https://newpipe.app/common-issues/

          *Edit: also give it the option to switch to invidious API if the default fails; for a slightly more seamless experience

  • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google’s desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to “sign in to confirm you are not a robot”. I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.

    • Gigasser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing instances. Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and some Peertube instance.

      Edit: replaced a word with “instance” and added word “instance”

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They’re just down out by the fascists.

        Problem is:

        Peertube doesn’t pay

        You have to pay for the backup/storage of your videos.

        PT will have massive scaling pains.

        Yt spends a lot of that advertising money hosting non profitable videos for free.

      • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.

        By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I use SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone. Except for links from Lemmy.

      If this bullshit is/becomes a thing for every YouTube video, I’m gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy 🤬

      Agreed on Peertube btw.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I finally managed to do that too, so there’s that 🖕 to Google. And then the specific video hit me with the dreaded “not available in your country” bullshit 🤦

      • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?

        • 🅿🅸🆇🅴🅻@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          UntrackMe, does’t open an app, but redirects to a chosen Invidious instance. I use farside.link/invidious which chooses a random instance closer to you.

        • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          There is a similar thing already written, minus the automatic part. You set it as your default browser and lets you do all sorts of things to the link before opening it in a browser. It lets you choose which app to use the link in afterwards. You can unshort urls, it checks for malware or redirects… You get the picture. Not sure if this helps with what you are after:

          https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

        • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Not necessary, apps can register to open links from specific domains.

          The only caveat is that if they don’t also own the domain - like Google owns both youtube.com and the YouTube Android app - you have to manually go to the settings for the app in System Settings and enable them, under ‘Open by default’.

        • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Alternatively, just use the share link on any function, and route it to the appropriate app. In this case, share a Youtube Link to the official app or to NewPipe.

        • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
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          11 months ago

          You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default “YouTube” app, all links will be open in that

      • tacofox@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 months ago
        • 1000 for SmartTube!! I finally side-loaded uYou for my iphone and last time I used my android tablet I was able to update reVanced but thats been forever ago.
      • smb@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 months ago

        we need an adblockers blockers blocker

        no, what is needed is an app that helps track who benefits from thr apps that annly you most:

        • ownership of companies pushing annoying ads
        • management of companies pushing annoying ads
        • find the connection between those and the products you maybe want to buy in shops or in internet before you buy, then instead of buying, let the app send the seller a message that you did not buy because of that connection.
        • do this in numbers with lots of people and see what happens to the advertising jungle

        the point is NOT buying because of advertising AND let them know it, so they can learn to improve themselves.

        they wanted your data? let them have it the way you want them to.

        same with any platform. ask the creator of your choice to also publish using patreon and you’ll become a member then, getting the content free of ads. better more directly pay who does the actual work, not all the big tech harvesting all the benefit inbetween.

        so what maybe is needed here could be a free or even self-hostable platform that also allows payed subscriptions.

  • Kethal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Whenever I have issues with YouTube refusing to do things it used to do, I stop using it for a while and eventually they put it back. If you’re not willing to do that, I find that the NewPipe app is better than the native YouTube app. But be warned that occasionally Google makes changes that break New Pipe and you need to wait a couple days for the devs to catch up to the change.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, I’ve used NewPipe for ages, but YouTube links from Lemmy open in my browser, so I’m gonna have to copy paste into it, which is going to be all kinds of annoying 😡

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I tried BOW, but it didn’t register Lemmy OR NewPipe as existing, so that was a dud.

          I then realized that maybe I could set a global rule for all the YouTube addresses to open in NewPipe and I could so I did!

          I then clicked the link that originally gave me the OP message. It opened in NewPipe… And I got the fucking “not available in your country” message in stead!

      • Kethal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        On my phone this can be set by going to settings, default apps, opening links, wait unusually long for the list to load, scroll to NewPipe, choose the links you want it to handle.

    • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      If Odysee wasn’t filled with so much racist, misinformed, crypto-slinging bullshit, maybe normal people would actually use it. Right now, the best solution is joining someone’s patreon.

      • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
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        11 months ago

        If Odysee wasn’t filled with so much racist, misinformed, crypto-slinging bullshit

        Deal with it. Otherwise you’ll take every single monopolistic abuse from Google, and you’ll just complain and keep using it

        • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          11 months ago

          We are lol, the monopolistic bullshit from Google is still better then that alt-right crypto hell hole.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I was curious so I googled it

      attempting to solve some of these problems with blockchain technology.

      Welcome to whiteboard crypto, the #1 Youtube channel for crypto education

              • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                11 months ago

                Odysee and Rumble are the platforms that wackjobs (like flat earthers) have flocked to in the past year or so.

                Those platforms aren’t promoting that content per se, it’s just that such content isn’t moderated like on YouTube and Facebook. And before you say “but there’s tons of that stuff on YouTube and Facebook already!” it doesn’t compare.

                • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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                  11 months ago

                  I believe that. Like Gab, right? The scum sinks to the bottom.

                  If I understand correctly, I think I side with the people saying use it anyway. Video hosting is hard, and YouTube is more enshittified every day.

  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What browser are you using?

    Firefox + uBlock Origin is still working for me right now.

    Edit: hmm, could be a regional thing too. I’m in the US.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What browser? What hardware? I’ve seen this error before when H.264 decoding broke on my phone’s browser and the video literally couldn’t play. I’m kind of wondering how long it’ll take before Google switches to AV1 by default (which either your phone can either decode well on recent devices, or barely at all on older devices without AV1 video acceleration).

    • feannag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’ve really enjoyed greyjay. I don’t yet have creators I follow outside of YouTube, but I love the concept.

      • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.ukEnglish
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        11 months ago

        unfortunately a lot of the bigger alternatives are just filled with right wing nutters. although hopefully apps like grayjay will make it easier for less political minded people find a home on other platforms

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is why I’ve always been confused about people telling me to use an ad-blocker. How tf does that help with the app?

    I have NewPipe now so it’s not a problem.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I tried last night to view a video I saw someone on SpaceHey had in their main page and couldn’t do it on my phone or desktop browser. Phone wasn’t in any way doing anything outside of the standard ublock origin on Mull, which has never had issues if I ever needed an “emergency” yt lookup. Desktop browser Firefox based with libredirect wasn’t working since I’ve been having issues connecting and using Invidious and Piped instances for a while.

    Ended up having to switch to Freetube on my desktop to view the video and it was worth it. The errors I kept getting where to sign in to confirm I’m not a bot.

    This was the video (assuming the instance is still up in the future)

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Same reason Facebook won’t let you look at your messages through the website on mobile. (Unless you request the desktop site).

          • smb@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            11 months ago

            really, yt stopped to play sound on the website for me (beeing logged in), there is a banner to “activate sound” but it always disappears unclickable fast, so i searched and found webtube, an app that basically loads their website, but has one feature youtube has not: “sound” *lol

            now i wonder how many of these apps really are “third” party apps and not really theirs only masked as third party for getting that gain of trust all the “others” get when it comes to big techs with their very own “public” crime records …

            would be too easy for them to create some small apps, act as if those were 3rd party software but harvest that spyoil (of the 21 century) anyway.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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            11 months ago

            They’ve already been trying to kill them for a while now. Luckily for us they’ve only had limited success so far…