Fuck YouTube for constantly doing this shit. Thank you NewPipe contributors for keeping up with it!
I bet they want to be played. They’re just a little shy, is all.
yeah we all get shy sometimes. it happenes
What I don’t get is why spend the effort dealing with YTs shit just to increase their userbase when we should be focusing on shifting people away from YT and into decentralized solutions like PeerTube anyways?
The people who-would shift away are users, not creators and currently the major issue with peertube is lack of content. Along with the fact that finding an instance which allows for signups and is federated with good, discoverable content is impossible currently.
I keep trying though and eventually I’m sure I’ll be able to switch
Because without some drastic new way to host videos, something like peertube will not replace YouTube(Framasoft agrees too). It doesn’t make sense cost wise. No one can make another YouTube.
And you also get to take money from Google so win-win.
Because Google is eating the monumental costs of hosting and delivering video content. The cost of maintaining client apps is negligible in comparison. YouTube is not going anywhere unless Google deems it so, or enshittifies it enough to drive users away.
Given their extreme efforts to monetize YouTube, I’d be surprised if it was still operating at a loss.
I think the developer of SmartTube might already have a fix for their app. I haven’t tested myself but people are looking happy in the Telegram channel.
Loaded the update via the internal function a few hours ago and still got error 403 on every video I tried. Haven’t twsted it thoroughly yet though.
Installed another update, working again!
Yeah, same thing with Tubular. Probably a change on YT’s side of things that breaks third party apps again.
I saw a comment somewhere that apps using Invidious as a fallback were often still working. Have observed this to be the case for FreeTube on desktop. Though it’s still hit and miss which videos want to play for some reason.
I take it all the third party apps are scraping, as opposed to using an API?
