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Señora Airi said:
Trying to use both NewPipe and Grayjay the past few days, and both the apps and the website will only play a single vid, then say "content is unavailable" or just have a black screen. YouTube cracking down on the alts again?
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Newpipe has been temperamental for me for a couple of days now. It still works and loads videos but sometimes I have to retry a few times before it does. Very fucking annoying.
 
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Señora Airi said:
Trying to use both NewPipe and Grayjay the past few days, and both the apps and the website will only play a single vid, then say "content is unavailable" or just have a black screen. YouTube cracking down on the alts again?
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PipePipe (A fork of NewPipe) appears to be staying ahead of YouTube's latest spergouts, but they have to keep coming up with new releases to compensate for YouTube's temper tantrums. All of Invidious' instances have been rendered unusable on-and-off though these past few days.

Still, YouTube is no match for the basement autists that come up with these workarounds as the more YouTube kicks the hornet's nest, the more it encourages these alternatives.
 
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Anyone else getting issues with embedded videos?

Like the video freezing but there's still audio?
 
Señora Airi said:
Trying to use both NewPipe and Grayjay the past few days, and both the apps and the website will only play a single vid, then say "content is unavailable" or just have a black screen. YouTube cracking down on the alts again?
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Seen no issues with FreeTube (despite no updates). Nor have I had any problems with YT-DLP
 
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The handsome tard said:
It's a battle of attrition and YouTube will eventually run out of "bullets"
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While YT may have a lot of computing resources, they likely have a staff full of "diversity hires" who were hired for "identity" and "diversity" over skill. The other side has a number of people with coding skills who work on all those YT-related projects for free.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
While YT may have a lot of computing resources, they likely have a staff full of "diversity hires" who were hired for "identity" and "diversity" over skill. The other side has a number of people with coding skills who work on all those YT-related projects for free.
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Also, Google's programmers have to use the on-site dilation station from time to time, so that is also wasted productivity on their part.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
While YT may have a lot of computing resources, they likely have a staff full of "diversity hires" who were hired for "identity" and "diversity" over skill. The other side has a number of people with coding skills who work on all those YT-related projects for free.
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Some of those 'bullets' will also make niggercattle stop watching, which makes them risky or unusable from YT's standpoint. There is no such loss condition for the (ch)adblockers, they are already working for free.
 
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Welp, NewPipe at the moment is no longer functioning for me it seems. After a few days of being temperamental but still functioning for the most part now it refuses to load any videos at all. Everything else works but when I click on the video itself and try to load the page or play any videos it gives me an error. Tried resetting phone, closing and re-opening the app, ect.

Fuck you Google and your fucking street shitters.
 
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LifeAlert said:
I keep getting "video unavailable" errors on yt-dlp
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Worked fine for me with stable@2025.01.12 just now. stable@2025.01.15 is out. That still works too.

EDIT: Some further comments:
  1. Personally, I run 'yt-dlp -U' to check for updates every couple of days.

    If you have installed yt-dlp in any way that isn't: from pip, or from the single file download on the yt-dlp Github, you are almost certainly doing it wrong. You need to be able to keep up to date.

    If you don't personally go to the console manually and run yt-dlp -U on a regular basis, you should sort out another way to keep up to date- like running it from Cron on a Unix system or Task Scheduler on Windows.
  2. I very rarely pass my browser cookies through to yt-dlp, because it doesn't need it to download most any video I download. The only issues I have encountered is, when downloading through Mullvad VPN, getting temporarily blocked for downloading 20 videos at the same time.

    If people are having problems downloading with yt-dlp on a VPN, or their home IP has been blacklisted, there is an alternative- Cloudflare WARP. This provides no real privacy or security (it appears to pass through your original IP to sites that use Cloudflare in the browser headers in at least some circumstances, and unless you disable IPv6 it appears to keeps a unique IPv6 address that could be used to track/block you) , but it allows you to mix your traffic in with iCloud Private Relay users, who as Apple users are fairly high value targets for advertisers who Google is unlikely to want to block.

    I have never had any trouble downloading mass numbers of videos through WARP, and it is free. Also, because Matthew Prince is a cunt, it's funny to do things that will make his company less valuable through his company's servers (did I mention that you can download torrents through Cloudflare WARP (obviously don't do this without passing it through another VPN, remember the 'no real privacy or security' thing)?)

    I'll put together a set of instructions on how you can use WARP as a proxy in a thread soon.
 
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Youtube has gone nuclear. When I try accessing the site I get redirected to a Google.com page that simply says, "[o]ur systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later". No attempts to download anything, no leaving my machine on for extended sessions with advertiser unfriendly videos, things have gone from 'fine' to 'auto redirect to another site' in hours.

Screencaps omitted because am on mobile and the Google site included my IP address in the error message.
 
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UncleTusky said:
Youtube has gone nuclear. When I try accessing the site I get redirected to a Google.com page that simply says, "[o]ur systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later". No attempts to download anything, no leaving my machine on for extended sessions with advertiser unfriendly videos, things have gone from 'fine' to 'auto redirect to another site' in hours.

Screencaps omitted because am on mobile and the Google site included my IP address in the error message.
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If you are on mobile data, you are default behind CGNAT which means you are sharing that IP with any number of other clients which could have tripped some kind of filter.
 
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UncleTusky said:
Youtube has gone nuclear. When I try accessing the site I get redirected to a Google.com page that simply says, "[o]ur systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later". No attempts to download anything, no leaving my machine on for extended sessions with advertiser unfriendly videos, things have gone from 'fine' to 'auto redirect to another site' in hours.

Screencaps omitted because am on mobile and the Google site included my IP address in the error message.
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Are you using a VPN?

If not, maybe you could try using Cloudflare WARP. They track everything you do and send it to the feds, just like any US ISP, but it may get you past the block. If it works, you should block ads universally and download as many videos as possible, because Cloudflare are cunts, and Matthew Prince deserves to die just like everyone who works for Google.
 
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