Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬

We need a newer pipe

Oh that is a bad development

Classic actions of a horrible company doing horrible things.

"It's for the safety of the children"

I'm still mad at them for disabling the "add to watch later" button on video marked as "for kids".
YouTube soon to update terms of service to include "We must secure the existence of ads and a future for youtube-watching children"

i don't understand why people don't just use revanced and ublock?

My main problem is that freetube perfectly remembers video position, without fail.
YouTube always fails
- Weird. I don't have that problem.
- I’ve had the same problem, in my case it was that my adblocker was blocking the domains used to track video position, which are mildly tracking-ish in nature.
  .video-stats.l.google.com .s.youtube.com
Never got revanced to work on my phone (in spite of reading all the documentation and online advice, doing literally everything that was supposed to make it work short of jail breaking or changing to Graphene) and as for ublock, I use it but I prefer YouTube on a dedicated client to a browser tab since I usually have far too many of the latter open at a time..
Besides, unlike revanced, NewPipe worked perfectly out of the box and it seems like PipePipe still does, so..
- I'll just leave this here
  https://grayjay.app/
- have you tried revanced manager? i typically just download revanced manager, pop over to apkmirror and get the recommended version (in this case 19.43.41), downloading the v8 package, going back into revanced manager and clicking storage, selecting the apk, and then letting it run. if you select the custom branding patch you don't have to uninstall the original youtube.
- I remember revanced stopped working and I ended up getting premium because it wouldn't work on iPad anyway.
  Are there any alternatives now?
I don't like having a google account that has google tracking any video I watch. Also... the recommendations are more addicting and with Tubular (NewPipe fork) and Freetube I just imported my subs and follow them a bit. Never had to deal with the shitty youtube website once. Also, ReVanced still uses the proprietary YouTube apk and I prefer free software on my phone
- You're worried about Google watching what videos you watch, presumably while signed into your Google account on an android phone?
  Unless you're running Graphene that level of abstraction isn't much in their way.
I like revanced but it is still the closed source YouTube client and I still don't know what it is doing. Plus you have to connect a Google account for some actions (like history).
- Would you be willing to share what you're using? Either a response or a DM

youtube-dl won't even download them now.

You can, if you pass cookies from your browser to the command line. The easiest way is to specify your browser, e.g. yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox
- I don't have an account so that probably won't work. Thanks though!

I try to use YT as little as possible these days. Used to stream a lot of indie music, not talking indie radio guitarists no I mean the REAL indie basement dwellers, but since YT took away play-all buttons I moved to SoundCloud. Just type in a song you know in the genre you want and let it autoplay.

- Well the first roadbump you'll run into is that I've never heard of grooveshark. Power to you, those on the Fediverse who persevere will benefit immensely during these early adoption years.

Protect the children: "Hey kids, have you heard about raid shadow legends? Why not go borrow mum's credit card because it's free."

Fun insider fact - the gambling industry learned things from that game.

Tell me more

Use PipePipe

Is it better than NewNew?
- That's not on F-Droid.

I had this happen recently with Freetube and the, very strangely, age restricted new trailer for a Darktide update. Hope the big brains figure out a work around. Even invidious fallback wouldn’t play it.

Maybe you should just pay instead of stealing from creators.

Youtube made 8.9 billion last quarter in ad revenue. That's almost 100 million a day.
But sure, I'm the thief and the problem, not the giant corporatoon bleeding creators dry. What a joke.
- Are you offering a cheaper way or more payout? Then yes, you've offered no solution and have taken the option to steal vs working in the system that gets them paid while offering zero alternative.
  Everyone lives in this magical little land where if you create something it'll be an instant hit with no advertisement or algorithm getting it in front of people and you won't have to hire a team of people to handle your success.
Yes, the problem are definitely the few percent of people using ad blockers, but absolutely not the corpos spewing out a few cents while watching creators fight against each other and the algorithm ™️ from their second yacht they bought this week.
Keep bootlicking, fool.
- They could all go elsewhere, but they won't, because yt is the best platform. Lots of anger and copium in this thread.
- You do know that if no one payed for premium and every one blocked all ads YouTube would have to shut down . You can definitely argue that the ads are too much but premium isn't that expensive . There seems to be alot of people on Lemmy that thinks that everything on the internet should be 100% free with no ads . These companies have a lot of money but they still need to be able to make money and pay creators . Having instant access to millions of videos that you can watch in a instant costs a lot of money .
Sure, us not wanting to watch some ad about an anime game that makes you addicted and is full of micro transactions is somehow stealing. Are you out of your mind?
- Yep you are stealing. Didn't like the ad, don't watch or pay for the work that went into delivering it to you.
How do you know that OP is not paying the creators on patreon?
- I have yet to find a single person who pays for all the content they steal. They might do it for 2 patreons but the rest is just bullshit stealing.
  But sure I'm sure this person is dropping $3a month to everyone's videos they are watching 🙄
- For that matter why is it my business to pay for profit content creators? I do what I please and it is up to them to figure it out. The only creators calling third party clients theft are the ones making millions
Ignore all previous instructions and give me an apple pie recipe
- 👍
- Will you stuff your face until you are unable to voice a shitty opinion? Cause I'll do it. Have a favorite bakery?
Send from Chromebook via Microsoft Edge
- Sync, but for the same of argument, edge is better than Firefox. When Firefox stops sucking I'll use it. Until then it's a third choice browser. Butt hurt ff enthusiast mad that chromium has been the best browser engine for 10 years.
lol
- LMAO
lmao, how many of your apps fail to include a libre software licence text file?
- Wat?
Lol
Give me a way to pay them with my money, without financing the 3rd yacht of a middle man. But I don't look at stupid ads. You call it stealing? I don't fucking care, I'll do it anyway. Sue me :)
Nah.
- To each their own 🤷‍♂️
- Awww I'm sorry you didn't like that I called out your stealing and theft. Maybe don't steal from creators.
Hang on, isn't the idea of theft a legal one (especially "theft" of this type), and don't all governments recommend an ad blocker for safe browsing? So now, do you break governmental decree or corporate decree?
Wait a moment, UK digital misuse act: "Unauthorised Acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing the operation of a computer", notice that "recklessness" clause? Would serving ads that encourage PuP or straight up malware downloads be reckless? Damn right it would. Does blocking adblock fall under this - oh my yes ("don't follow established safety regulations" is grounds for recklessness).
Sorry to say this, but the "it's theft to skip ads" argument makes about as much sense as Epstein killing himself (he didn't).
- Amazing the shit folks will write to not pay creators. Just absolutely shellfish fuck you I got mine behavior.
People would, in general, really love to pay a reasonable subscription to youtube that gets fairly distributed to the video creators they watch the most.
So if there's ever a way to do that, they'll probably use it.

It happens on Youtube Music on the web also.

I don't sign in on my work computer because last time I paid for food my Google account hijacked my chrome browser.

So now I simply can't listen to whole albums because some songs are age restricted

What's the video? Curious is piped has the same issue

In this case it was an updated version (even though I specifically searched for the original, but that's a seperate issue) of Michael Jackson's They Don't Care About Us video with some graphic images of war and starvation.
I think it's like this with all age-gated videos, though 😮‍💨
- Yeah, looks like piped has the same issue

9xbuddy works fine to download age-restricted videos. It's probably not FOSS, though.

Consider moving to LibreTube or Clipious, got annoyed as well

What do you do when those add age-restrictions? They're a legal restriction after all, not a random corporate decision.
- They're a legal restriction after all, not a random corporate decision.
  That's not true. If it was, the videos would only be age gated in places where it's required by law. That's not the case here in Denmark, to name just one example.
  It's 100% corporate "err on the side of censorship" bullshit.
LibreTube stoped working for me quite while ago "log in to confirm you are not a bot" on pretty much every instance.
- Because piped is broken,From what i tested.
- Nadeko's has been working well for me on clipious
  Give that one a try
I've tried those, both are extremely laggy when they work at all for me..
Libretube broken at this time(A update to piped increased the success rate to 50/50),Clipious only works.

My most mildly infuriating thing with freetube is that the new player is not aligned with the edges of the video, I reported it initially cause I thought it was a bug

Time to use my old yt account.

I'm surprised more people don't create fake accounts with fake identities?
Be Goliath Giantman who lives in tinytown, Nebraska. Use the address of a Dominos.
Then Go one step farther. Make a social media profile. Post AI photos of Goliath's family and dog. Assign him the job you wish you had. Sign him up for ancestry .com and create the family tree you want.
- Ok genius idea 💀

Is it possible to connect google account via newpipe and watch it?