Google seems to be blocking API access for Piped video servers

Not to be a downer but... how did people not anticipate this happening? Google is likely going to do everything they can to shut down non-official clients like Piped, since they're sidestepping all of YouTube's revenue streams. Hopefully they don't take the nuclear option and somehow lock down the API and make it much harder to download videos via tools like yt-dlp.

If you are using LibreTube this is fixable by disabling piped proxies in the setting. HOWEVER do be warned that Youtube will know your IP, so you should only really do this while using a VPN service.

I watch more YouTube than I do television these days.

As of now, I'm able to watch it ad free on both Brave and Firefox. I don't have revanced as I'm more or less too technically stupid to do it.

If it becomes impossible to watch YouTube, I'll walk away from it just like I did cable in 2009 and Netflix in 2023.

I haven't sailed the high seas since the eighties, and I'd honestly prefer not to, but you gotta make a product that doesn't consistently try to piss me off.

They are definitely in a crackdown phase. Some revanced versions stopped working just yesterday, the yt-dlp stuff, the ad block block...

The best hope would be to get off of YouTube but that's not happening any time soon given how expensive bandwidth is.

I guess that's it then. If I'm forced to see ads and be tracked I'll just block the domain on my network like I did reddit and invest that time in other things.

I just wish Peertube had proper federation and a more accessible interface, some of their decitions sadly make is a unvaiable alternative! :(

Good to know what was going on — I just noticed yesterday that piped vids weren’t loading for me.

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It's time LibreTube moved on from Pipe Backend too. Too many times the app just doesn't work leading to server hopping and more.

I could use NewPipe but the app has a really terrible UI.

Man, just when I downloaded LibreTube. :(

I was wondering why LibreTube was not working for the past 2 days. Looks like our times are slowly coming to an end

It's actually the exact same problem, Youtube now blocks IPs on the video endpoint aka everything except for the actual stream works which is a new thi g to adapt to, they used to block access entirely before.

Interesting how just a few weeks ago yt-dlp also stopped working, saying it was getting investigated in Germany.

You could try Clipious from FDroid. It's my fallback for ReVanced.

Piped has never worked for me, to the point where I blocked the bot that reposts all YouTube links.

Does YouTube even have an API for downloading videos? That would surprise me, even if it was for a fee. Their whole business model is adverts.

why use proprietary when Peertube is free and libre

Just use a different instance. Alternatively you can use peertube

just use https://yewtu.be

it's time for odysee I think 🤔

Would be cool if we had some foss AI based video format. Where it stores a 3d scene and animates it. Seen a prototype somewhere for a single face.

Then it'll be cheap enough to host your own stuff again instead of relying on YouTube.