10 mo. ago • 98%

Is YouTube starting another attack on third party clients?

I've noticed than most of them have stopped working including all invidious and piped instances

59 comments

God I hope not, imma go check.

Edit: NewPipe still works.

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- First thing I did when I read this. Works for me too. I'll have to check Invidious later.
  
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NewPipe seems to work fine for me

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LibreTube suddenly was really laggy on all instances, but the instances on browser are fine. I'm using NewPipe/Clipious for the time being.

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- Same with me, hope i can return soon enough.
  
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- Have you tried enabling HLS in "Audio and video"? It solved the issue for me (using the official instance).
  
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  Just worked for me! Lemmy is the best!
  
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https://piped.video is working fine now, including subscriptions listing (it even shows some privated videos!) and playing a video

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- It just loads indefinitely for me. I've tried multiple instances and I get the same result
  
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  Same here. Piped hasn’t worked for since June and even then it was shaky.
  
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I use FreeTube which seems to still work fine but it seems to me like the browser plugin that opens YouTube links in FreeTube does not work properly sometimes

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- I've just started using freetube. I've noticed short periods of very low quality stream once in a while. Not sure if the periods match Ad time, tho. Do you experience those low Q periods?
  
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  I usually just switch it from auto to 1080p or whatever is available and that fixes it 90% of the time, sometimes it takes a second or 2 to fix the quality though.
  
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  I might but I am not sure. My internet speed is often a bit unreliable so if I had a drop in quality or issues with buffering I ´just attributed it to that.
  
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Not 100% sure but I am seeing a lot more feeds not loading errors on newpipe

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I think Smart Tube Next has never failed on me, I use the beta version and update it regularly (or not) so well, maybe that helps.

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I guess the migration to PeerTube is waiting to happen.

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- Honestly the third party clients should allow users to upload content and comment
  
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  They don't? That's lame.
  
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- lol peertube is a joke. all the instances arent allowing registration, from my last check.
  
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  That really sucks.
  
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I'm still using the original Vanced

*Touches wood

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- My version of Vanced borked so i updated to revanced, seems pretty much the same to me.
  
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GrayJay is still working.

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- That's ~~proprietary~~ non-libre so not an option unfortunately
  
  Edit: Fixed technicality
  
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  It's open source, you just can't fork it.
  
  Edit, I'll rephrase that. You can fork it and do whatever, even remove the "please donate" thing, but if you distribute any spy/malware versions they have legal avenues to force it to get taken down.
  
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  TBH it's not proprietary either. I'm OK with such licensing because it helps the developers fuck the clowns over who try to take their code without even a thanks. The source is available to audit if you'd like. That's what I really care about.
  
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- you can keep your proprietary trash for yourself
  
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  The amount of FOSS snobbery in this community is hilarious. You typed that comment on a proprietary device with proprietary hardware, probably running proprietary software (unless you're on Linux, truly using ALL open source stuff, including RISC-V hardware, FOSS browser and network stack). But God forbid an app is just source available instead of truly FOSS. Gasp! The horror! You should complain about it using one of the completely closed-source Android/iPhone apps that you use every day.
  
  LMAO
  
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  Another fosstard
  
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Grayjay, Newpipe and Freetube all still work

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FreeTube.

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NewPipe and the fork Pipe pipe have been working working on my android. Can't say anything on the piped or invidious side of things since I don't watch videos on browser if I can avoid it.

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Until now, YT videos works flawless in SMplayer and MotionBox Browser, the last one is IMHO the best desktop client for nearly all streaming platforms, only drawback is a bad and not very intuitive UI.

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NewPipe is working just fine on my Galaxy S10e

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Attack 🤦‍♂️

In what world is not responding to requests an "attack" 🤣

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- Feel free to suck my cock instead of Google's, if you need one so much.
  
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  I bet you go around telling people piracy isn't stealing 🤣
  
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