So, as of 21.01.2025, newpipe is unusable once again
So, as of 21.01.2025, newpipe is unusable once again
Apparantly, YouTube has fully rolled out their blocking of residential IPs. Things such as Freetube do not seem to be affected.
Things such as Freetube do not seem to be affected.
...yet
NewPipe has been choking on video links for a few days, but Retry would eventually get them to load. Not anymore as of an hour ago.
I think this should serve as a warning for us all to download everything you can get your hands on, while privacy respecting YouTube front ends are still available.
I'm thinking of starting a community where people can post magnet links to the YouTube videos they've downloaded and are willing to seed. Do torrent sites allow YouTube videos? Since they are technically already free.
Do you think I should download using yt-dlp or proxy my downloads via a running instance?
I'm also wondering about the nature of what the IP bans are targeting. I'm on a shared network at home and concerned it might ban youtube for others. Do you know if youtube.com would fail to load videos or would this somehow only affect yt-dlp and friends?
Is this the IOS player response issue? I'm getting that in Piped, but apparently there's a fix that's been merged in Newpipe that should hit Piped fairly soon:
Yep.
For others reading, the rest of the integrations seem to be working fine (E.g. SoundCloud)
Seems Google is keen on accelerating my de-googling path...
PipePipe (a fork if I understand right) is working so looks like there is at least one workaround still possible.
Much thanks! Checked and confirmed PipePipe on Andy from FDroid works.
An update was just released. It works again.
Same with Tubular (NP with SponsorBlock and with ReturnYTDislike)