yt-dlp or embedded youtube links say “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” but for me the whole plan of this operation is that i don’t have to do that.
that’s pretty bad
(edit: it works again, i changed nothing just waited)
Haven’t checked today since I woke up and went to work. But the post is 14 hours old, which means when it was posted I was happily watching some Red Letter Media on Freetube last night. So working fine for me (then at least). Will check when I’m home.
I just tried Newpipe to double check, it works fine for me
Lately I’ve been using grayjay, going fine
Yep, found it about a year ago and never looked back. Its actually funded by futo which i think is owned by Yahoo. Hopefully it stays around for a while.
It is currently only owned by Eron Wolf, which is stated in their FAQ: https://futo.org/about/futo-faq/
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Thanks for the information.
The app is distributed in a third party repo, not the main F-Droid repo, so before installating I’m trying to check if it’s open-source, had some independent review, and is safe to install.
The source is available but the license isn’t recognised as OSS according to the OSI website. https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay https://opensource.org/licenses
This may explain why it’s not in the main F-Droid repo. It’s better than closed source anyway.
Their just mad they can’t track you as much. Switch VPN locations it takes sometimes many servers. Fuck them. Network issue.
I use Bravepipe. It is working great. You can also consolidate bitchute and rumble feeds with youtube.
Confirmed no issues with Bravepipe.
If you’re using a VPN try connecting to a server in Albania, I’ve never had issues when connected from there for yt
Try grayjay. It lets you use an account to bypass the block
Watching YT works fine on desktop in the SMplayer or searching the Video with Andisearch and watch it there in the search result, sandboxed with random proxy.
So annoying. I have to restart Freetube so many times to play a video.
Newpipe works for me, though im not using the release version.
Grayjay…
Does grayjay let you block channels on youtube? I’ve been using freetube and pipepipe due to the ability to block channels.
I’m still learning the ins and outs of Grayjay, but apparently the answer is yes.
Next to each video, you get an Options button.
Under Actions, you get…
- Share
- Hide Creator from Home
- Hide
- Play Feed as Queue
It is a great feature for searches with how algorithm can flood results with bigger channels. Unfortunately app doesn’t have sponsorblock which has become a must for me.
GrayJay has had sponsorblock for awhile now.
Where is it located? I type sponsor into field after clicking settings and it didn’t come up and tried scrolling through settings to find it.
sources > youtube
I really want to like grayjay (love Louis and his philosophy), but the perma dark mode kills it for me. I don’t understand how some people enjoy that, it’s so depressing.
Huh, well how about that, you’re right, no option for that. Well, it doesn’t bother me anyways, maybe one day they’ll add the option. 🤷♂️
Don’t get me wrong, I have Grayjay installed, and it works flawlessly. Seems to work even better than Tubular which is what I use currently, and perhaps even better.
This is my only gripe (well, and the fact that it isn’t open source, but I can live with that), and I really want the project to succeed. I just can’t get past the perma dark mode, but I’ll stay on the lookout for when it releases a light mode, and I’ll start using it then because I really want the project to succeed.
It’s not open source in the full sense of open source, but the source code is available for download. You can do whatever you want with it, the only main catch is that you can’t distribute any modified versions.
I’m watching Freetube right now, still working. v0.23.3
Switching around vpn server works. It helps if you use servers nobody else uses
One of the reasons I use a VPS rather than a commercial VPN.
Who’s your provider? Google seemed to mark a whole range of providers like OVH and Hetzner as suspicious a while ago.
I’m using an VPN and i get that daily. After switching Servers and rebboting the app it works
Pipepipe still works for me, I don’t have to sign in
true, that works for me. but having this moment where all of my default methods did not work was kind of scary. In the end all these methods are only temporary solutions and i think i should find more ways to completely ditch youtube
