Last two weeks every time I use Piped I am getting error “Sign in to confirm you are not a bot”. It happens on every instance and videos work very rarely. It seems like Google enforces you to log in if you try watch lot of videos from one IP. I hope this will not be end of Piped and there will be solution for this problem.
Upd. I got similar problem on Invidious recently
I operate an invidious instance. Google has really cracked down the past two weeks on YouTube front ends. Its extremely frustrating.
Invidious devs are finalizing a workaround so hopefully things will be working again in the next week or two.
I’ve noticed Invidious instances having trouble recently as well. I’m sure they’re not dead though, just need to get the next mouse for the endless cat and mouse game.
You can usually find an invidious instance if you look through redirect.invidious.io. For example, if I try the servers for https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=aQsWzL7_RiI the 6th one down currently works.
Yeah I usually just follow the “try another instance” links until one works.
Seen the same thing. You have to hop around to get high quality
Same thing I’ve noticed with invidious instances lately. My clipious on Android is broken more often than not. Freetube still seems solid although I think they each use different apis.
Seems to be a big crackdown lately. Freetube and Grayjay are the only apps that seem to consistently work.
Grayjay is proprietary, so I don’t think it is very good for privacy and freedom
Newpipe appears to be working
FreeTube also doesn’t work well
The advantage of FreeTube is that if it doesn’t work, it can use an Invidious instance as a fallback.
Invidious doesn’t work now lol
google has been blocking any IP that uses lots of youtube bandwidth, and that means any public instance needs to do IP rotation.
I also heard they began blocking all IPs belonging to some cloud providers.
I run my own invidious instance from my home servr. Only I use it, so it’ll never be blocked, but I don’t have the same anonymity as if using a public instance…
It’s mostly for the benefits of using youtube ad-free without a google account, while having local bookmarks, watch-later, and subscription feed. If that’s your main goal Invidious is really easy to set-up.
My main fear of running it on my home server is they will block my IP address and my entire household can’t use Google products anymore.
Oh, the horror! /s
Imagine having to explain to a casual user, SO, sibling or parent that you, while fighting to preserve your anonymity, google blocked the house. xD
NewPipe is broken for me. When I go to try to open the videos in my mobile browser, YouTube gives me the same error. So, YouTube itself is pretty much bricked to me on mobile, since I refuse to register an account.
I’m unsure if the behavior would persist if I disabled my VPN, but fuck that.
Same for me. Started watching youtube videos in firefox with ublock origin, works perfectly fine.
On a side note, Smart Youtube for Android tv still works perfectly fine.
Sometimes you can find an instance that works but you have to go through a lot of them and it may only work for a few minutes or even less. Invidious doesn’t work at all for me. I hope they find a workaround because I already started committing a very serious crime against my freedom by visiting youtube.com
Same discussion from 4 days ago with the link to the respective Github issue: https://lemmy.ml/post/18936433
Yup. I’ve had the same issue with invidious. Hope it’ll get fixed soon. Freetube works for now.
If you’re looking for an ad-free client that still works right now; In the 6 years I’ve been using YouTube (re)vanced on android, I’ve only had it fail to play videos for 1 single day around 6 months ago. That was fixed within 24hrs.
Not quite the same as a full custom instance/frontend like piped; but it’ll do the job while you wait for updates.
That’s not really privacy friendly, right? I don’t exactly know how it patches the apk and what it changes but it doesn’t remove trackers. Correct me if I’m wrong
Ah, I should have double checked the community… Got here from /all.
No, it’s not explicitly privacy friendly. It’s mainly focused on a wide variety of optional UX changes, returning several paywalled features like PIP/Background playback, and removing advertising as well as providing sponsor block.
Same problem here is there any other solutions for iOS?
It is not IP blacklist by Google. Seems like YouTube can now detect NewPipe extractor.
You could use instance on my VPS it’s not blocked yet. However it’s http only :/
I started using grayjay and although it still gets blocked sometimes restarting the app usually works
