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[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 113 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I updated the docker image and still getting this error . It's been a few days like this.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago

Seems like some people are having issues while others aren't, maybe it's just a game of IP tag.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 61 points 7 months ago

They've been doing it for a while. Since June of last year or something. They have ipv6 rotation tools to get around it now. But youtube is basically ip banning instances.

[–] ris@feddit.de 56 points 7 months ago

Its fixed now

[–] lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Invidious uses scraping instead of the official Youtube API, so this is expected to happen from time to time..

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Google is going to keep finding ways to break these front-ends as they search for ways other than ads to monetize their services. I fully expect they will eventually lockout the public API so only the official app can use it in that quest as well. In my opinion the front-ends are just a bandaid and the real solution is something other than YouTube completely, if that is even possible at this point.

All of the front-end solutions are telling Google is that people want that content and they will come to YouTube for it one way or the other, Google just needs to figure out how to force people down the workflow that gets them the most money.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Invidious does not rely on the api, its a scraper

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[–] Robaque@feddit.it 10 points 7 months ago
[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

The only actual solution is switching to open/public infrastructures.

Nothing else is an actual solution.

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That would be a really fast way for me to stop spending any of my time on youtube I guess.

[–] jamyang@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

They'd be doing me a huge favor if they go aheadwith this plan.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

It does seem like they moved their focus away from ublockO to focus on the front ends, though. While I can’t use invidious, I can use regular ol’ YT with UblockO activated and I’m not constantly having to fight and wait for an update.

I think it’s funny those pricks are fighting a multi front battle that they’re clearly losing lol

[–] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully it gets sorted out soon. I wish if I HAD to pay money for youtube I could do it in a way thats data respecting.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's already fixed with the March 31st release. Some instances are just not updated yet.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago
[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (13 children)

They broke everything even revanced, had to scour for a new patch since only newpipe still worked but I can't access the watch later playlist on it.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The moment I notived revanced has stopped working for me a new version was already available that worked. I guess ot might've been a staged rollout?

[–] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Yup. I had to patch 19.09.37 and I'm back to working. Also microG 0.3.1.3.240913.

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[–] DoingFedTime@scribe.disroot.org 29 points 7 months ago

Too late, one small change and it works. Just some params.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 27 points 7 months ago

Remember when you didn't have to red queen your hacker shit to watch funny videos?

God I feel old. I'm so sick of this shit.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

The change the Youtube front end code now and then, breaking yt-dlp temporarily until someone checks in a patch.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 22 points 7 months ago

NewPipe still works

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When i noticed i checked the github to see there was an active bug report.

24 hours later they where talking about a fix that was on its way.

I updated this morning and all is well.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Okay but imagine if you didn't have all this wasted oppositional bullshit, and we just built open architectures.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

It seems clear they don't want us using their site with videos.

I think publishing video files on the Web is not some unique know-how.

By the way, neither is search, neither are ratings.

And "being in the same space" with the rest of the world is an illusion due to the way recommendations work there. I mean, it's sufficient to look at the views counter under a video and combine it with some other numbers to realize this.

Freedom is so close. It's not in defeating the network effect, it's in realizing that it's fucking useless in anything but scaring us away from leaving trap spaces.

[–] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Seems like something like Gray Jay is a very easy way to transition off of these sources, too. Just have a source agnostic player.

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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What are you even talking about?

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[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You say this- many people do but no one has made an alternative? So no it isn't easy to make a video streaming site. Everyone just say "it's too popular" that it has the entire audience but no, there just isn't any good alternative anywhere. People don't get how fast everyone would switch and how little anyone would look back if there was just any good alternative. Make one! Stop saying it's easy and make one! You figure out how to stream consistently and have these response times and these peripheral functions if it's so easy! It's not easy. They obviously have a superior product and is now enshittening it so they can milk money from it

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Not sure if it's related, but my youtube revanced installation was also not working. I had to repatch again using the most recent patch.

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[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It says that Piped is affected as well. This is probably a dumb question from me, but I use NewPipe in my phone to access YT - and it did not cause any trouble yet. I heard that the Piped project also uses NewPipe Extractor under the hood (which basically scrapes YT website). So why would Piped break but not NewPipe ?

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

This sort of cat and mouse style thing is completely expected, almost designed for period it's no big deal when it happens. It's only a big deal when it's still going on many days later

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

Unless Google implements a severe restriction on access to the YouTube API or imposes the requirement to be logged in to a verified Google account, every solution will not be 100%

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This post has been active longer then it took to deploy a fix, which was out before this article came out.

Get fucked youtube

[–] mobsenpai@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Why am I not surprised?

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