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I've been using Invidious and NewPipe to watch YouTube for a long time. I don't use an account with either of these. However, I'm wanting to get recommendations based on what I watch and my subscriptions. LibreTube looked promising but it no longer works. When I try to watch videos it won't play. YouTube Vanced is dead. Not sure if another viable solution exists.

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[-] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 year ago
[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

And SmartTubeNext for Android TV

[-] smegger@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Works so well on Android TV! +1 for this app, been using it for years and it still gets regular updates

[-] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I use it myself, but somehow all the recommendations are just boring right now.

It mostly shows things that I've already watched, or things from months or even years ago.

Rarely new and trending stuff shows up.

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Its just showing you youtube recommendations, I think

[-] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I too think it's due to YTs API.

[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

LibreTube looked promising but it no longer works.

You just need to switch to another Piped instance in the settings. You need to click on the three dots, then select settings, go to ‘Instance’ and at the top you can hit ‘Choose…’ to change the Piped instance. I haven’t experienced any issues with adminforge.de. kavin.rocks also seems to work well.

[-] cogitoprinciple@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'll give it another go with your suggestion

[-] PersephoneDives@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

I was having the same issues and switching worked. Thanks for the tip!

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I switched between instances constantly and they never worked. I don't know how you guys are using this.

I just disabled Piped API and never had a problem again.

[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

kavin.rocks always works for me. I also run my own private instance on a VPS, so far it never got blocked.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Zastyion345@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Bruh, you are either unlucky or your ip itself may be bad and gets blocked by cloudflare wich i think the piped.video and kavin.rocks are using.

I selfhost my instance too at home with a VPN for the api and video proxy and its nearly flawless.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I selfhost my instance too at home

Well that explains why you're not having problems. Most people are not doing that.

[-] Zastyion345@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I didnt say that i allways use my instance, i use some of the public ones too with very few being slow due to many people using them. If one doesn't work try another.

https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

The underlying issue is youtube rate limiting the video proxy, so if the instance is trying to play 10 videos at once it will get ratelimited.

The solution to such problem is either complicated or simple. The simple one is try to convince your favorite creators to use other platform then youtube for example peertube, Odysee or rumbl.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

If one doesn't work try another.

I already said that I tried pretty much all of the public ones. I am not the only one with this problem (including OP) so I think it's fair to recognize that it's an issue with the service.

[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

Grayjay. It's still a bit buggy but exactly what you're looking for.

[-] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, let's see what the FUTO guys come up with. AFAIK they're still struggling with licensing, getting an issue tracker running and quite some basic stuff. And I think YouTube won't like what they're doing. But I like that someone tries.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

They're not struggling with anything. They opened a GitHub page for issue tracking and the license was figured out a long time ago.

[-] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rly? Last time I checked most of their projects had a temporary license and Louis said they needed to figure out how to prevent something like with NewPipe from happening. Did they find a final license in the meantime?

Do they read the Github? All I see is people not understanding the source is somewhere else and saying xy isn't open source. And I don't see anyone from FUTO intervening or posting. It's mainly the community amongst themselves in the issues... Or did I miss something?

[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's worth noting, of course, that those illicit forks of NewPipe also violate their license. If dishonest proprietary software developers don't care about NewPipe's license why would they care about FUTO's? If they really want to stop forks they can simply make their product source-unavailable, but then they don't get to claim to be "open source" or "open source adjacent."

The problem is not so much that the are forks (remember, in the free software world, forks are explicitly allowed) but that these forks use the branding of the original project and thus damage the original project's reputation. There is a tool for dealing with counterfeits - trademark - and it is a tool used by reputable free software organizations such as Mozilla and Debian. Now imagine if those free software projects adopted FUTO's hostility to forks - it would be a net loss to the free software community. Don't let organizations like FUTO sell you the idea that you don't need the freedom to fork.

Of course, even proprietary products can be counterfeited, and trademark helps stop those too.

[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

And I think YouTube won’t like what they’re doing.

They have a lot of money for legal battles

[-] shinnoodles@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Huh? But I use Libretube everyday.

[-] RovingFox@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

OPs issue was just that the instance they selected wasn't working

[-] iloverocks@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Newpipe x Sponsorblock

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

Disable Piped API in LibreTube it will start working again.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Vanced might be, but Revanced isn't and let's you do all the stuff you want.

this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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