That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.
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Another attempt at blocking ad blockers
we need an adblockers blockers blocker
uBlock
No you!
uBlock Origin - FTFY ❤️
Yeah I mean that one. Don’t use the other one.
I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google’s desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to “sign in to confirm you are not a robot”. I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.
I use SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone. Except for links from Lemmy.
If this bullshit is/becomes a thing for every YouTube video, I’m gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy 🤬
Agreed on Peertube btw.
i got NewPipe set as default, so links from Lemmy open there instead of the YT app
I finally managed to do that too, so there’s that 🖕 to Google. And then the specific video hit me with the dreaded “not available in your country” bullshit 🤦
Thank you for letting me know this was a thing!! Total game-changer.
I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?
UntrackMe, does’t open an app, but redirects to a chosen Invidious instance. I use farside.link/invidious which chooses a random instance closer to you.
Alternatively, just use the share link on any function, and route it to the appropriate app. In this case, share a Youtube Link to the official app or to NewPipe.
You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default “YouTube” app, all links will be open in that
There is a similar thing already written, minus the automatic part. You set it as your default browser and lets you do all sorts of things to the link before opening it in a browser. It lets you choose which app to use the link in afterwards. You can unshort urls, it checks for malware or redirects… You get the picture. Not sure if this helps with what you are after:
Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing instances. Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and some Peertube instance.
Edit: replaced a word with “instance” and added word “instance”
There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They’re just drown out by the fascists.
Problem is:
Peertube doesn’t pay
You have to pay for the backup/storage of your videos.
PT will have massive scaling pains.
Yt spends a lot of that advertising money hosting non profitable videos for free.
Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.
By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income
Whenever I have issues with YouTube refusing to do things it used to do, I stop using it for a while and eventually they put it back. If you’re not willing to do that, I find that the NewPipe app is better than the native YouTube app. But be warned that occasionally Google makes changes that break New Pipe and you need to wait a couple days for the devs to catch up to the change.
Yeah, I’ve used NewPipe for ages, but YouTube links from Lemmy open in my browser, so I’m gonna have to copy paste into it, which is going to be all kinds of annoying 😡
Try turning on the desktop version of the site once the link is open in the browser.
Try Better Open With. Maybe you can set it to open YT links on NewPipe. Or Revanced as another option.
I tried BOW, but it didn’t register Lemmy OR NewPipe as existing, so that was a dud.
I then realized that maybe I could set a global rule for all the YouTube addresses to open in NewPipe and I could so I did!
I then clicked the link that originally gave me the OP message. It opened in NewPipe… And I got the fucking “not available in your country” message in stead!
Haha oh shit, they’re killing mobile browser view???
Yup!
What browser are you using?
Firefox + uBlock Origin is still working for me right now.
Edit: hmm, could be a regional thing too. I’m in the US.
Nightly with uBO, so that’s not it…
have you tried desktop mode? It may just be looking at the useragent
What browser? What hardware? I’ve seen this error before when H.264 decoding broke on my phone’s browser and the video literally couldn’t play. I’m kind of wondering how long it’ll take before Google switches to AV1 by default (which either your phone can either decode well on recent devices, or barely at all on older devices without AV1 video acceleration).
Fuxk u peasant… That’s what
Oh look, youtube is doing the same bullshit as TikTok.
Guess Congress are going to have to ban YouTube unless Google sells it, then 🤷
They’re already talking about breaking up Google/Alphabet
Everyone here is like “use this” “use that” which is great but the immediate solution is
switch to desktop mode
You’re welcome
Greyjay has been working fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Piped and Invidious
okay but what do we do about backing up the massive library of content that only exists on youtube? how do we back that shit up, so when they break those, it is’t all lost forever?
You
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I’ve always asked “what does that ever mean?” Now, thsi answers my question
Finally a post that isn’t about politics
Don’t worry, it’ll let up after
November 4th,December 1st,January 6th,January 20th, Second Appomattox.
Well that might just completely kill YouTube on mobile for me. The only way to watch on my phone without their ads.
I am slowly switching back to podcasts, it is only question of time when yt quality goes bellow usability, they are dancing around that thin line like with search.
I’ve gone out of my way to make a cracked .IPA of YouTube (basic adocker + sponserblock + Downloader) for my phone to not have to deal with there stuff and it’s held out so far. Just hope it keeps doing so
Is there a website or resource that describes this in more detail? First I’ve ever heard of a cracked .IPA
it’s a version of Uyou that you can find on GitHub. Tells you how, though you have to do a bit of the compiling yourself
