Is this the death of FreeTube? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Videos looping infinitely in SABR requests and becoming unwatchable.

Comments unavailable to read because of "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'endpoint')".

These have been a problem for like at least 2 weeks now. Before there were like 3 refreshes due to SABR and you could open up comments by spamming the button despite the error.

Now however, it's completely unusable.

Is this the death of FreeTube? I've really loved this software and would hate to have to permanently return to the website with all that tracking bullshit and no offline subscriptions :(

edit: An update was released, it is now possible to watch videos but the comment section is still broken.

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[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I you use the external player, and mpv in particular with yt-dlp installed, then you'll have an alternative still using freetube as frontend to navigate YT.

I do prefer ytcui with yt-dlp backend, which is native, low on resources and I really like ncurses, but that's up to anyone.

That said, yt-dlp also gets IP blocked every once in a while, and also find itself non working at all depending on G. moves...

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