Unfortunately, neither fixes this. Grayjay seems to work, but its inconsistent in my experience.
Comment on YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in...
letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
freetube for windows and linux. newpipe for android.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Freetube is a Invidious client. Newpipe has its own build in scraper
leadore@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
negativenull@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 months ago
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)
geography082@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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 banned me: i had 1 year paid, they didn’t refund, and imagine the disaster in all my self hosted apps.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Oh my god, same! I’ve been using it for a week or so thanks to Lemmy and it stopped working yesterday.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
leadore@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep, I’m on the latest version.