That's a rhetorical question, in case there's any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.
Another attempt at blocking ad blockers
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we need an adblockers blockers blocker
uBlock
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Yeah I mean that one. Don't use the other one.
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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.
I use SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone. Except for links from Lemmy.
If this bullshit is/becomes a thing for every YouTube video, I'm gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy π€¬
Agreed on Peertube btw.
i got NewPipe set as default, so links from Lemmy open there instead of the YT app
I finally managed to do that too, so there's that π to Google. And then the specific video hit me with the dreaded "not available in your country" bullshit π€¦
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I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?
You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default "YouTube" app, all links will be open in that
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Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing instances. Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and some Peertube instance.
Edit: replaced a word with "instance" and added word "instance"
Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.
By posting to elsewhere that won't pay them, they would be reducing their income
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There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They're just drown out by the fascists.
Problem is:
Peertube doesn't pay
You have to pay for the backup/storage of your videos.
PT will have massive scaling pains.
Yt spends a lot of that advertising money hosting non profitable videos for free.
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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.
Yeah, I've used NewPipe for ages, but YouTube links from Lemmy open in my browser, so I'm gonna have to copy paste into it, which is going to be all kinds of annoying π‘
Try turning on the desktop version of the site once the link is open in the browser.
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Yt won't let you use your web browser anymore? Why
Same reason Facebook won't let you look at your messages through the website on mobile. (Unless you request the desktop site).
Oh look, youtube is doing the same bullshit as TikTok.
Guess Congress are going to have to ban YouTube unless Google sells it, then π€·
They're already talking about breaking up Google/Alphabet
Everyone here is like "use this" "use that" which is great but the immediate solution is
switch to desktop mode
You're welcome
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Greyjay has been working fine for me Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
I've really enjoyed greyjay. I don't yet have creators I follow outside of YouTube, but I love the concept.
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ReVanced, Grayjay, Newpipe
I loved Vanced, but never got ReVanced to work or tried GrayJay.
NewPipe works like a charm now that I have it set as the default app for all YouTube links, though π
You have to download the YouTube APK version ReVanced specifies in the compile step You can find the Apk on APKpure.
ReVanced is a hassle though.
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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
Is there a website or resource that describes this in more detail? First I've ever heard of a cracked .IPA
You must not be a beer drinker, then. I love cracking open an IPA after a long day.
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Piped and Invidious
okay but what do we do about backing up the massive library of content that only exists on youtube? how do we back that shit up, so when they break those, it is't all lost forever?
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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).
Install ReVanced
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?
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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.
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