• mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I think greyjay is the best YouTube app. I gave up on Newpipe the moment Firefox for Android reenabled extension support. I didn’t like the fact that Newpipe needed a fork just for Sponsor block support.

      • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Well, with newpipes forks are possible in order to implement controversial features, with Grayjay they are unlikely because of its non-open-source license.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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          7 months ago

          At least its plugins, which are what needs to be regularly updated as platforms change, are open source. I imagine someone will clean-room reverse-engineer the core app and make an open source one that uses the plugins.

          Also, Louis Rossmann said they only reserve the right to go after forks to prevent a situation like all the shady ad-ridden NewPipe ones flooding Google Play Store.

          • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            At least its plugins, which are what needs to be regularly updated as platforms change, are open source. I imagine someone will clean-room reverse-engineer the core app and make an open source one that uses the plugins.

            Reverse-Engineering and reimplementing something is a lot of work, especially if it is a moving target that is still actively developed. I don’t expect anyone to do it.

            Also, Louis Rossmann said they only reserve the right to go after forks to prevent a situation like all the shady ad-ridden NewPipe ones flooding Google Play Store.

            That is some kind of hand wavy reasoning that might come from someone that could be sponsored by them. Louis should do better than taking any company by their word and promises. And spreading FUD about NewPipe (and by extension all of Open Source software) is also a straw man argument. An untrustworthy software repository is not a argument against the open source software application, but against the software repository and their maintainers.

            If you are concerned with that, you should stop using Google Play store.

    • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Just FYI. Grayjay is only source available, but not open source like newpipe and its forks.

    • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      OP is a screenshot from newpipe, they are very rigid on adding those things, that’s why you need to download other forks to get sponsorblock for example.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    My most mildly infuriating thing with freetube is that the new player is not aligned with the edges of the video, I reported it initially cause I thought it was a bug

  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    It happens on Youtube Music on the web also.

    I don’t sign in on my work computer because last time I paid for food my Google account hijacked my chrome browser.

    So now I simply can’t listen to whole albums because some songs are age restricted

    • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It’s been a while since I used chrome, but I used to use incognito to avoid that from happening. You can log into your services in the incognito session and when you’re done and close the incognito session, the temporary folder with your session stuff will get deleted, leaving the normal chrome browser unaffected.

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    9xbuddy works fine to download age-restricted videos. It’s probably not FOSS, though.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I’m surprised more people don’t create fake accounts with fake identities?

      Be Goliath Giantman who lives in tinytown, Nebraska. Use the address of a Dominos.

      Then Go one step farther. Make a social media profile. Post AI photos of Goliath’s family and dog. Assign him the job you wish you had. Sign him up for ancestry .com and create the family tree you want.

        • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          7 months ago

          There’s ways to bypass it. I’ve bought a virtual number.

          And if you search for “How to create an account without a phone number” on whatever platform you’re using, you might find a backdoor.

          • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Where? And wouldn’t it be some expensive plans, as you’d be roaming in a different country?

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I wonder how much effort would be needed for going further?

        Create the AI family pictures. You’ll need a bunch of different ones. Profile pics, some bar picks. Throw a wedding in there. And some completely random situations.
        Can you make a person, and them propt it to always use the same result for different pictures?

        Make a resume. You’ll want different jobs in the past probably. Maybe they moved around.

        The ancestry idea is brilliant.

        • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Make up a dramatic backstory and post vague updates.

          “My daughter’s quinceañera was last week. No photos, after ‘the incident’. Can’t believe it happened again 😭”

  • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I don’t get it. How do you think age-restricted videos could work without logging in?

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
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      7 months ago

      You can, if you pass cookies from your browser to the command line. The easiest way is to specify your browser, e.g. yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox

  • piskertariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Classic actions of a horrible company doing horrible things.

    “It’s for the safety of the children”

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      YouTube soon to update terms of service to include “We must secure the existence of ads and a future for youtube-watching children”

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I’m still mad at them for disabling the “add to watch later” button on video marked as “for kids”.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      In this case it was an updated version (even though I specifically searched for the original, but that’s a seperate issue) of Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Care About Us video with some graphic images of war and starvation.

      I think it’s like this with all age-gated videos, though 😮‍💨

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I had this happen recently with Freetube and the, very strangely, age restricted new trailer for a Darktide update. Hope the big brains figure out a work around. Even invidious fallback wouldn’t play it.

  • jinwk00@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Consider moving to LibreTube or Clipious, got annoyed as well

    • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      LibreTube stoped working for me quite while ago “log in to confirm you are not a bot” on pretty much every instance.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Does anyone know why? They are using IPv6 addresses so theoretically there should be infinite IPs.

          Honestly YouTube should try to come up with some sort of deal to allow Piped and other third party frontends. Maybe have some sort of paid API access or some agreement to allow YouTube to use piped servers as a cache. The overhead for YouTube is large and maybe they could lower it with community help.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      What do you do when those add age-restrictions? They’re a legal restriction after all, not a random corporate decision.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        7 months ago

        They’re a legal restriction after all, not a random corporate decision.

        That’s not true. If it was, the videos would only be age gated in places where it’s required by law. That’s not the case here in Denmark, to name just one example.

        It’s 100% corporate “err on the side of censorship” bullshit.

    • Bysmuth@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I’m using a fork called pipepipe. It has worked pretty well for me so far and has some extra features including sponsorblock

        • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.eeEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Mine stopped working yesterday too, it just needs an updated patch version. There is a new version of the revanced manager that I think requires a manual download/update first and then the youtube apk version to apply the patches on is 19.43.41

          • whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            7 months ago

            I tried patching it yesterday, nothing changed but today I got an update on revanced and the suggested youtube version has also changed. After patching with the 19.43.41 version it seems to be working again.

    • Chewget@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Newpipe hasn’t stopped working… If it errors, just close the video and refresh your VPN

    • Halo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      This is weird… Where did you get your APK? From F-Droid or their website? The F-Droid version is always one or two versions behind the main repo.

      Try updating to the latest version via their website/GitHub.

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I get it from fdroid. I might follow your advice and get it from github. I thought fdroid follows GitHub

        Edit: maybe I will use accrescent instead of fdroid from now on

        • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Add the newpipe repository to fdroid for faster updates

          Or use a fdroid client like droid-ify where the newpipe repository can enabled with just a toggle and not a somewhat difficult to find url