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 1 day ago
freetube for windows and linux. newpipe for android.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 14 hours 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 1 day ago
Freetube is a Invidious client. Newpipe has its own build in scraper
leadore@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 day 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 14 hours 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 13 hours 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 1 day ago
Make sure you update frequeny
leadore@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep, I’m on the latest version.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Damn that is annoying then