I really hope the answer is “yes,” but gosh-darned if I can find one. The FreeTube app still works as long as my VPN is off, but as for Invidious . . . (also, sorry if this has already been covered earlier).
EDIT: Ok, well now it looks like I can get FreeTube to work with some Mullvad locations but not others . . .
Yes. Sending it now by PM to not make things too easy for YouTube. Even it requires a few tries, though.
I use invidious to search, copy the link, and use yt-dlp to download the video. You can get 1080p that way. If I wasn’t lazy, I would write a script
Is there a good guide to self host?
I’ve been using Grayjay and it seems to be a good front end for YouTube.
yt-dlp works, magic-tape works, too, if you don’t mind terminal interface.
a command line yt client, hell yes.
My piped instance is still working https://piped.gravitywell.xyz
My self hosted instance works great
What works for me is freetube on desktop, and tubular/newpipe on AOSP.
Ups, I just got to enjoy piped and in particular pipeline on gnu+linux and libretube on AOSP.
Pipeline in particular allows to totally avoid electron (freetube), and in both cases the piped instance is the one communicating with youtube, not me, :) And both applications support sponsorblock (tubular does, but newpipe doesn’t). But not talking directly to youtube is a win. Did I mention dropping another electron app, :) ?
But… I installed pipeline from AUR, because I don’t like flatpak… Not sure if other user repos offer it as well…
I’ve been trying for weeks. Sometimes, using a random IP address with Proton VPN works for a few hours, but eventually, Freetube (or YouTube) seems to catch on and shuts me down. Gravitywell mentioned a piped instance, which was great but only worked for a minute or two for me. I think the days of being anonymous on YouTube are over—time to move on if privacy is important to you.
It’s gotten to a point where I get “Sign-In to confirm you’re not a bot” on my residential ip(s).
Which I won’t, therefore no yt for me.
Luckily I’ve got better and more entertaining things to do.
I don’t think so, YouTube’s new method for blocking third party clients seems to be difficult to work around. I have the Linux version of the NewPipe app and that seems to be working but I don’t use VPNs, so I don’t know if that would work for you.
NewPipe works for me on Android
It stopped working for me recently. It’ll play the first 5 seconds or so of the video and then just freeze up.
Not really at this point
Freetube on desktop, NewPipe on smartphone. And I have no problems with VPNs on both devices!
@zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml same here. I stopped fighting via invidious and sadly I’m stuck with freetube, which is great, but I’d prefer a server side alternative
The below website provides the answer to your question: https://redirect.invidious.io/
I use freetube and grayjay