What fresh fuckery is this? 🤦

Another attempt at blocking ad blockers

I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google's desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to "sign in to confirm you are not a robot". I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.

Whenever I have issues with YouTube refusing to do things it used to do, I stop using it for a while and eventually they put it back. If you're not willing to do that, I find that the NewPipe app is better than the native YouTube app. But be warned that occasionally Google makes changes that break New Pipe and you need to wait a couple days for the devs to catch up to the change.

Yt won't let you use your web browser anymore? Why

Oh look, youtube is doing the same bullshit as TikTok.

Everyone here is like "use this" "use that" which is great but the immediate solution is

switch to desktop mode

You're welcome

ReVanced, Grayjay, Newpipe

Greyjay has been working fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've gone out of my way to make a cracked .IPA of YouTube (basic adocker + sponserblock + Downloader) for my phone to not have to deal with there stuff and it's held out so far. Just hope it keeps doing so

Haha oh shit, they’re killing mobile browser view???

Piped and Invidious

What browser? What hardware? I've seen this error before when H.264 decoding broke on my phone's browser and the video literally couldn't play. I'm kind of wondering how long it'll take before Google switches to AV1 by default (which either your phone can either decode well on recent devices, or barely at all on older devices without AV1 video acceleration).

It could be that it's playing in a codec that your mobile browser doesn't support like av1 or something. Not sure though, is this happening with every video?

Install ReVanced

What browser are you using?

Firefox + uBlock Origin is still working for me right now.

Edit: hmm, could be a regional thing too. I'm in the US.

Get the YouTube Revanced app to play this*

ReVanced

Use Smarttube instead on android tv and stbs Smarttube

For android phones, tablets: Tubular

In browser ublock blocks youtube ads, also invidious instances.

Fuxk u peasant... That's what

Advertising for alternatives and/or unofficial apps

Well that might just completely kill YouTube on mobile for me. The only way to watch on my phone without their ads.

Time to switch to Invidious.

I tried last night to view a video I saw someone on SpaceHey had in their main page and couldn't do it on my phone or desktop browser. Phone wasn't in any way doing anything outside of the standard ublock origin on Mull, which has never had issues if I ever needed an "emergency" yt lookup. Desktop browser Firefox based with libredirect wasn't working since I've been having issues connecting and using Invidious and Piped instances for a while.

Ended up having to switch to Freetube on my desktop to view the video and it was worth it. The errors I kept getting where to sign in to confirm I'm not a bot.

This was the video (assuming the instance is still up in the future)

Install GreyJay

http://greyjay.app/

This is why I've always been confused about people telling me to use an ad-blocker. How tf does that help with the app?

I have NewPipe now so it's not a problem.

Finally a post that isn't about politics

Use Odysee ffs.

UserAgent -> google chrome desktoo