Google Delists Newpipe (ad free youtube client)

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Google is currently fucking with YouTube mirrors. last month they sent a legal threat to the Invidious project to intimidate them into shutting down (Invidious isn't owned by anybody and isn't bound to Google's TOS so there's no way to back up that threat). the Invidious community ignored it of course so right now they're silently IP banning Invidious servers. of course the FOSS nerds instantly started brainstorming workarounds such as running scripts to auto-rotate video pulls through a large IPv6 block at random to make themselves effectively impossible to ban:

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this also brings to mind Reddit's API lockdown (which triggered the jannycaust). Twitter is making a similar move. tech companies are starting to see alternative clients as a threat. even though the newpipe delisting was quickly reversed, I highly doubt it was a mistake or a fluke
 
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Hugger Brother said:
Google is currently fucking with YouTube mirrors. last month they sent a legal threat to the Invidious project to intimidate them into shutting down (Invidious isn't owned by anybody and isn't bound to Google's TOS so there's no way to back up that threat). the Invidious community ignored it of course so right now they're silently IP banning Invidious servers. of course the FOSS nerds instantly started brainstorming workarounds such as running scripts to auto-rotate video pulls through a large IPv6 block at random to make themselves effectively impossible to ban:

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this also brings to mind Reddit's API lockdown (which triggered the jannycaust). Twitter is making a similar move. tech companies are starting to see alternative clients as a threat. even though the newpipe delisting was quickly reversed, I highly doubt it was a mistake or a fluke
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Beat me to it.

I can add that, from the perspective of an invidious user, Google's crack down on the various YouTube frondends has so far seemed rather ineffective. I was having some problems about a week ago but since there are plenty of Invidious instances out there it wasn't hard finding one that wasn't down. By now my favored Piped and invidious Instances are already back up.

This is probably going to continue and get worse over time, but I'm not sure what the prognosis is exactly. I can't speak for NewPipe or other apps but some desktop Invidious instances now display the banner "Invidious may be in danger." which Hugger Brother might have already mentioned.

Edit: Also wanted to add that Louis Rossmann's videos, one of which was referenced by OP, almost always make it to the front page of Invidious, which is kinda funny.
 
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Hugger Brother said:
Google is currently fucking with YouTube mirrors.
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Not just those mirrors, but any mirror in general that relates to Google, doesn't matter what the program is.

Alternate app stores are being fucked with by Google as well. I made a post about it a while ago, but the jist is that Google is silently banning spoof accounts that are being used by multiple people to anonymously log-in to the stores to access the apps without the need for Google Play.

Google is just being an asshole to everyone these days
 
Hugger Brother said:
this also brings to mind Reddit's API lockdown (which triggered the jannycaust). Twitter is making a similar move. tech companies are starting to see alternative clients as a threat. even though the newpipe delisting was quickly reversed, I highly doubt it was a mistake or a fluke
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fwiw reddit and twitter have an issue with data scraping and using their "content" without paying for it. silly but understandable somewhere.
youtube is butthurt about people skipping ads, which cuts into their ad-business.
 
So I use freetube which is a desktop program to watch youtube without ads or spying. The past couple days I've been unable to really watch videos without it constantly stopping. Even when I drop the resolution it doesn't help. If I open the same video up in virtually any invidious instance though in my browser, the videos play and buffer fine. Clearly youtube is fucking with whatever freetube is using and it's been grinding my gears.
 
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I'm starting to notice performance issues with NewPipe. When playing audio only it isn't a problem, but as soon as I try to watch anything in 1080p things go south quickly.
 
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So I use freetube which is a desktop program to watch youtube without ads or spying. The past couple days I've been unable to really watch videos without it constantly stopping. Even when I drop the resolution it doesn't help. If I open the same video up in virtually any invidious instance though in my browser, the videos play and buffer fine. Clearly youtube is fucking with whatever freetube is using and it's been grinding my gears.
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Try the nightly build.

 
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I'm starting to notice performance issues with NewPipe. When playing audio only it isn't a problem, but as soon as I try to watch anything in 1080p things go south quickly.
 
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