• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          0·
          5 months ago

          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.

      • Lena@gregtech.euEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        Men, as long as it works… I can always switch off grayjay. And the source is available

  • hulfpa@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    That’s been happening to me lately also. I’ve used NewPipe on Android to get around to.

      • Wxnzxn@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        At least from what I’ve seen, a lot more videos than in the past seem to have transcripts and captions, including automatically generated captions. I recently moved all my old YT videos (mostly German YoutubePoops from the early 2010s) over to peertube.wtf and they had automatic captions generated without input on my end, in English and German both.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        hmmm should probably find their request list and vote up AI captioning

      • Wxnzxn@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        That’s no lie, hence supplement, not replace. But the community can only grow, if people start using it more, even just a little bit in addition to YT where it works for them.

    • Goun@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      Peertube is great, I wish more people started uploading their content to it

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    I’ve just stopped watching. Plenty of other stuff to do. If they don’t want to show me their ads that’s their problem.

    • leadore@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      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.

        • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
          0·
          5 months ago

          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)

          • geography082@lemm.eeEnglish
            0·
            5 months ago

            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 banned me: i had 1 year paid, they didn’t refund, and imagine the disaster in all my self hosted apps.

            • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
              0·
              5 months ago

              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.

    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        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.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        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.
  • ShyCake@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    Happens to me every now and then, I just switch vpn servers, then it works fine. It’s inconsistent, the same server that was suspicious one day is fine the next. I’m guessing it depends on how many youtube videos are being streamed on that particular sever at that time

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    this is likely youtube’s way of trying to persuade people into making an account, without going public that they are forcing people to make accounts.

    I found it does that if im logged out on a VPN, but standard residential IP’s it doesn’t with.

    I assume eventually it’s going to just require a google account to use the service period

    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      It sounds like they’re getting ready for age verification, which will be mandated in some countries this year.

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      I only speak for myself but the day they require it, bye. I’ll miss the creators that I follow but the ones I directly patron through other ways, I’ll watch elsewhere. I get that servers cost money but Google isn’t losing money, they just want more.

      • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        Realistically we didn’t need it before YouTube existed and I should be fine without it, but I think it’ll be tough, I don’t have an aerial for FTA tv anymore, nor a tv in my bedroom and I don’t really want to sign up for a subscription streaming service. Plus a decent chunk of my employers use YouTube as end point for the videos I edit so that could be a bit of a hit too. There’s always reading I guess, that might be doubly necessary if I end up poorer and can’t afford much else.