Google is going to keep finding ways to break these front-ends as they search for ways other than ads to monetize their services. I fully expect they will eventually lockout the public API so only the official app can use it in that quest as well. In my opinion the front-ends are just a bandaid and the real solution is something other than YouTube completely, if that is even possible at this point.
All of the front-end solutions are telling Google is that people want that content and they will come to YouTube for it one way or the other, Google just needs to figure out how to force people down the workflow that gets them the most money.
That would be a really fast way for me to stop spending any of my time on youtube I guess.
They’d be doing me a huge favor if they go aheadwith this plan.
Peertube?
The only actual solution is switching to open/public infrastructures.
Nothing else is an actual solution.
Invidious does not rely on the api, its a scraper
Wasn’t talking about Invictus with that bit of my comment as I am aware they don’t use the api. I meant for things that do use the api.
It does seem like they moved their focus away from ublockO to focus on the front ends, though. While I can’t use invidious, I can use regular ol’ YT with UblockO activated and I’m not constantly having to fight and wait for an update.
I think it’s funny those pricks are fighting a multi front battle that they’re clearly losing lol
Unless Google implements a severe restriction on access to the YouTube API or imposes the requirement to be logged in to a verified Google account, every solution will not be 100%
Too late, one small change and it works. Just some params.
They’ve been doing it for a while. Since June of last year or something. They have ipv6 rotation tools to get around it now. But youtube is basically ip banning instances.
Hopefully it gets sorted out soon. I wish if I HAD to pay money for youtube I could do it in a way thats data respecting.
It’s already fixed with the March 31st release. Some instances are just not updated yet.
Lol, nice.
The change the Youtube front end code now and then, breaking yt-dlp temporarily until someone checks in a patch.
Not sure if it’s related, but my youtube revanced installation was also not working. I had to repatch again using the most recent patch.
Same, except it hasn’t worked since. I’ll get like 30 seconds in and it’ll buffer indefinitely
Did you install their new version of MicroG?
If you did, you have to turn off “Google Device Registration” in the MicroG settings to stop it from buffering indefinitely.
I force closed the app from settings and then that went away. I didn’t mess with anything else.
This was happening to me until I repatched and reinstalled the app. I didn’t change anything between installs so I’m not sure what happened.
Reboot your phone
NewPipe still works
I kinda stop using these services after a while. I want the recommendation algorithm.
It’s fine tbh, but YouTube is really running out of great contents these days, and you have to constantly check the sources before being gaslighted. I would rather take my pace and search up things when I wanted.
Meh, discoverability isn’t really as much of a problem as people think it is. Add videos to your Watch Later from your Subscriptions tab, and as YouTubers you like do collaborations or recommendations, you’ll discover similar channels. Sometimes you’ll find a channel from a creator’s website or from a podcast, or from a social media feed you follow (reverse-chrono or most-liked only, please). It’s a world-wide web, and as much as companies try to sell you the myth of discoverability-as-a-service, that’s just a marketing tool. They need it to push ads and drive retention. You don’t need it at all, because the web already does that.
I’m almost entirely off of black-box recommendation algorithms, and I still find new things I like. In fact, my to-watch, to-read, and to-listen queues are too big to handle in a reasonable amount of time. I regularly have to unsubscribe from things I don’t like as much anymore or risk getting deluged with too many things I want to see. But the bonus is, I don’t get anything I don’t want to see.
Write your own algorithm. It’s a better life, and it barely takes any more time or effort. Just change your bookmarks and be willing to put in an extra click or two when you want to consume something.
I don’t want to do all that just to watch a few videos a day.
The difference is whether you watch a few videos you don’t really care about every day, or a few videos from creators you actually like and find interesting every day.
Also, “all that?” Seriously? You just go to your Subscriptions tab instead of your Home tab, and that’s too much for you? lol
why are people downvoting you for wanting to use the algorithm recommendations?
Some people use downvotes to signalize a different opinion, which is kind of toxic. We want different opinions here. What we don’t want is hate, extremism, fake news, … That’s what deserves the downvotes.
People getting downvoted just for having a different opinion really annoys me. Same with seeing obvious trolls getting upvoted. It’s not ideal, but lemmy has an option to hide scores, and it makes browsing lemmy more pleasant to me.
FOSS folks who absolutely cannot stand any existing options besides FOSS
Same. I have new pipe on my phone but end up using the official app with premium more often.
Seconded, the recommendations can help you discover new things, that you didn’t even know existed… that said, I can’t stand having someone stalk and monetize your every move.
I quite like it precisely because it provided no recommendations. I’m not enticed to waste time watching something I wasn’t interested in 3 seconds ago. If I want to watch something I have to look it up and that’s usually the end of it.
Just the opposite for me, I disconnected because I’m done with Google, now I want to stay way so the algorithm can’t find me. I’ll check what I want to check, when I want it.
They broke everything even revanced, had to scour for a new patch since only newpipe still worked but I can’t access the watch later playlist on it.
The moment I notived revanced has stopped working for me a new version was already available that worked. I guess ot might’ve been a staged rollout?
What happened revanced?
Spoofing app version stopped working. Luckily if you simply patched a newer version it still works correctly.
Yup. I had to patch 19.09.37 and I’m back to working. Also microG 0.3.1.3.240913.
Revanced has been crashing for me every single time I try to patch something, is that why? 🤔 I was gonna submit a bug report tomorrow.
Yeah, try this out.
Copy text repost here
So I have seen a lot of people having these issues and the any Video you click redirects to a YouTube Help Video saying something like “This video isn’t supported on this app”. This now has happened to me but I was able workaround it.
I have the solution for you
Go to your Revanced Extended settings and go to miscellaneous. Export your settings in both .txt and as a file just to be sure. (this might still not work to import it into the new app. So if have any special settings maybe take a screenshot or a Video)
Then you can delete all the cache and app data of both YouTube Extended and the Vanced MicroG app and uninstall.
Go to your RVX Manager > Settings > Sources and enter it as it shows on the screenshot I provided. (don’t worry, once inotia is back you can just reset this back to default)
Restart the Manager and do the usual.
Go to patch, tap on the recommeded version and download it. Then go back to patch on your RVX Manager and tap on storage on the bottom right and choose the version you just downloaded and patch it.
When done patching and installing after opening the app it’ll tell you to that microG is missing and it’ll redirect you to the supported GMScore site. Download and install it log back in to your Google account and go back to Import your settings (hopefully it works for you) AAAAND YOU’RE DONE. This worked for me and since I still see so many people looking for a solution I thought I’d share how I made it work again. Just to be clear, this app will still look and work like Revanced Extended but in it’s core it now is YouTube Advanced and it works perfectly.
I had installation issues after patching is that your issue?
Nah for me it just crashes as soon as I tap the patch button…
I believe you can run the patcher on desktop with the revanced-cli. Or you can just download the pre-patched YouTube here: https://github.com/revanced-apks/build-apps/releases , though I recommend patching it yourself instead of downloading apk from a source not affiliated with revanced team.
When i noticed i checked the github to see there was an active bug report.
24 hours later they where talking about a fix that was on its way.
I updated this morning and all is well.
Okay but imagine if you didn’t have all this wasted oppositional bullshit, and we just built open architectures.
Its fixed now
Remember when you didn’t have to red queen your hacker shit to watch funny videos?
God I feel old. I’m so sick of this shit.
:laughs in Newpipe:
This post has been active longer then it took to deploy a fix, which was out before this article came out.
Get fucked youtube
Why am I not surprised?
