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freetube for windows and linux. newpipe for android.
I’m having the same issue on Freetube, it pops up and says it can’t play the video because Youtube requires being signed in. Sometimes if I retry a couple of time it’ll play, but usually keeps getting the same error. Freetube is great though, maybe they’ll come up with a solution soon.
Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.
Edit: with or without VPN makes no difference either
Unfortunately this has been going on few several months now. YT is actively blocking IPs if they think they are from data centers, VPNs, or proxies.
They’ve also been doing some under the hood cryptographic changes that cause breakages from time to time in Invidious (the backend for FreeTube)
I had a private invidious instance, with the bad idea to be attached with my paid domain, and even it was private , google crawl bots listed it into the Google Safe Browsing blacklist. In consequence, my domain admin (NJALLA) banned me: i had 1 year paid, they didn’t refund, and imagine the disaster in all my self hosted apps.
oh shit, I did not even consider that could happen. I uh… need to go tear down an instance I don’t really use anymore.
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Yep, I’m on the latest version.
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Unfortunately, neither fixes this. Grayjay seems to work, but its inconsistent in my experience, often repeatedly returning to the beginning of the video part-way through.
Grayjay is useless on Linux. Every video suddenly stops halfway and you need to reload. Same for every video. Talking about music videos, 5-6 min long.
Freetube is a Invidious client. Newpipe has its own build in scraper
Newpipe is working
Huge, got worried
no desktop for newpipe? is it just the android app?
There is Piped, which is a web version of NewPipe
You can use Waydroid
So bots just have to sign in?
If you click Cancel and then simply search for the same video you can watch it without signing in. Total horseshit but still a good ‘fuck you’ move against YouTube.
I’m once again asking you to host Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend) locally on your PC.
How does one embark on such a journey?
Quite easy with Docker: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-method-production
Happens to me only when I use my VPN.
your VPN IP is blacklisted
Don’t use a VPN?
What good is doing anyway? Tracking happens mostly outside if IP address. Even at that your IP address is probably dynamic.
Really? I’m pretty sure I’m being IP tracked by companies like google.
It is one data point out of thousands.
I routinely see people using a VPN while signing in to online services
I usually don’t use one for browsing, and not for privacy reasons.
I have a wireguard hub-and-spoke configuration with my VPS as hub to
- Let my VPS act as a reverse proxy to my home servers
- Not have to expose ssh on my VPS to the public internet
- Easily reach all my home servers when I travel
- Route traffic through my VPS when I’m on sketchy open WiFi. Which is when I’ve encountered OP’s sign-in requirement.
I was about to leave the same comment
Seconded.
Copy URL,
yt-dlp <dat URL>.I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp
mpv <dat URL>
I’ve just stopped watching. Plenty of other stuff to do. If they don’t want to show me their ads that’s their problem.
Revance it
Revanced still uses microG
this is likely youtube’s way of trying to persuade people into making an account, without going public that they are forcing people to make accounts.
I found it does that if im logged out on a VPN, but standard residential IP’s it doesn’t with.
I assume eventually it’s going to just require a google account to use the service period
I only speak for myself but the day they require it, bye. I’ll miss the creators that I follow but the ones I directly patron through other ways, I’ll watch elsewhere. I get that servers cost money but Google isn’t losing money, they just want more.
Realistically we didn’t need it before YouTube existed and I should be fine without it, but I think it’ll be tough, I don’t have an aerial for FTA tv anymore, nor a tv in my bedroom and I don’t really want to sign up for a subscription streaming service. Plus a decent chunk of my employers use YouTube as end point for the videos I edit so that could be a bit of a hit too. There’s always reading I guess, that might be doubly necessary if I end up poorer and can’t afford much else.
why would anyone ever sign up for subscription media
fmhy.pages.dev/videopiracyguide
Well yes there’s always the seven seas I guess. They were always a refuge for me before YouTube as well.
That’s been happening to me lately also. I’ve used NewPipe on Android to get around to.
Have a look at peertube, it’s gotten to a point where it can definitely supplement YT.
I’m deaf and the large majority of peertube videos don’t have captions :/
hmmm should probably find their request list and vote up AI captioning
At least from what I’ve seen, a lot more videos than in the past seem to have transcripts and captions, including automatically generated captions. I recently moved all my old YT videos (mostly German YoutubePoops from the early 2010s) over to peertube.wtf and they had automatic captions generated without input on my end, in English and German both.
It isn’t even close to YouTube.
That’s no lie, hence supplement, not replace. But the community can only grow, if people start using it more, even just a little bit in addition to YT where it works for them.
Peertube is great, I wish more people started uploading their content to it
Happens to me every now and then, I just switch vpn servers, then it works fine. It’s inconsistent, the same server that was suspicious one day is fine the next. I’m guessing it depends on how many youtube videos are being streamed on that particular sever at that time
GrayJay
FreeTube
FreeTube isn’t working for IP related issues atm, I’m having more luck with NewPipe.
(edit) Fix in the latest update!
As someone without a YT account, I have seen this with regards to age verification (on rather random videos, actually), but not with “you might be a bot” reason.
Since I always browse with VPN + lots of privacy protections, I feel like half the websites I visit think I’m a bot. It’s a pain in the arse.
Turns out reCAPTCHAs aren’t actually ‘tracking the way you move your mouse’ but just trying to match you to one of the billions of statistical models held in Google datacenters that represent the device fingerprints, personalities, locations, and preferences of every Internet user they track.
And when they fail to match you… then they presume you’re not a real person.
This is usually because they’re using a common VPN service. I’ve found that connecting to Ireland gets me past this prompt more often than not, but that likely won’t last long.
VPN Ireland has been my go-to for years. If it stops I’m gonna be pissed.
