freetube for windows and linux. newpipe for android.
YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in...
Submitted 10 months ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
leadore@lemmy.world 10 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 10 months ago
Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Unfortunately, neither fixes this. Grayjay seems to work, but its inconsistent in my experience.
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 10 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 10 months ago
Freetube is a Invidious client. Newpipe has its own build in scraper
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Newpipe is working
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Huge, got worried
redacted2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
no desktop for newpipe? is it just the android app?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
You can use Waydroid
jim3692@discuss.online 10 months ago
There is Piped, which is a web version of NewPipe
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So bots just have to sign in?
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I’m once again asking you to host Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend) locally on your PC.
Cris16228@lemmy.today 10 months ago
The real problem is that it’s a pain sometimes and the fact they suggest to restart every hour is even worse. Recently, I had a problem where it started to play some videos and then stopped the playback and from there it went in a reloading loop till you get something like “The media playback is broken”
ikidd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IDK about invidious, but on Piped I had to add a container that grabs POtokens for the Newpipe API to use to pull videos.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 10 months ago
For me, it’s running for months and I had to load new image updates sometimes, because YouTube likes to break it, but this was maybe once a month…
daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How does one embark on such a journey?
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Quite easy with Docker: docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-me…
MissJinx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Revance it
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Revanced still uses microG
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Copy URL,
yt-dlp <dat URL>.adub@programming.dev 10 months ago
I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp
mpv <dat URL>
reddig33@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
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.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It sounds like they’re getting ready for age verification, which will be mandated in some countries this year.
Pazuzu@midwest.social 10 months ago
They’ve required an account to watch age restricted videos for years now
hulfpa@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
That’s been happening to me lately also. I’ve used NewPipe on Android to get around to.
Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Have a look at peertube, it’s gotten to a point where it can definitely supplement YT.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
If deaf and the large majority of peertube videos don’t have captions :/
rumba@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
hmmm should probably find their request list and vote up AI captioning
Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
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.
Goun@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Peertube is great, I wish more people started uploading their content to it
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It isn’t even close to YouTube.
Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
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.
Chivera@lemmy.world 10 months ago
GrayJay
orize@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
FreeTube
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
FreeTube isn’t working for IP related issues atm, I’m having more luck with NewPipe
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Also has this problem. For me, the issue is vpn, so I switch to a random server that hasn’t been blacklisted
Majorllama@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean its lame but it’s pretty much standard at this point. Gotta make an account to use anything these days.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My solution is to avoid services that are anti-lurker.
If im not able to view it without logging in, i just accept it, not watch it, and move on with my life.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IG ain’t gonna get me.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
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.
graphene@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
Manalith@midwest.social 10 months ago
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.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
VPN Ireland has been my go-to for years. If it stops I’m gonna be pissed.
ShyCake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
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
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean that’s a way to check for bots
HailSeitan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have had some success just by reloading the page when I get this message
daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
welcome to my life
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
is this on the APP or browser? i
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I have been using freetube for a while now which is also facing this issue so it looks like a tug of war between the clients and YouTube which is getting others in the crossfire as well. But for some reason, when I add haruna as external player in freetube and launch a video it always works. Guessing other video players like vlc might also work which you can use with freetube and maybe other privacy focused clients.
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I thought about making an *arr application for automating the downloading of your subscribed youtube channels and in quality you want. I want to call it yarrtube. Idk if anyone would be interested or not so only been a pipe dream.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Grayjay can get around that issue in most cases.
grayjay.app
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Unfortunately that is proprietary softwar, I.e. it restricts the users four essential freedoms :/
Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Whats wrong with it? its open source: gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
lena@gregtech.eu 10 months ago
Men, as long as it works… I can always switch off grayjay