Most Piped instances are also not working because they use NewPipe Extractor under the hood.
I have also temporarily switched to FreeTube for Android, because a few of the Invidious instances are still working fine.
The nice thing about the FOSS world is that it’s pretty easy to import subscriptions and other stuff from NewPipe to FreeTube.
I hope this YouTube fuckery is handled soon. I love NewPipe way more every time it successfully deals with the YT weirdos.
I wasn’t even aware there was an Android version of FreeTube. It’s just what I use on the PC usually.
Yep, someone thought of porting the awesome Freetube app to Android. It’s not as polished as NewPipe, but gets the job done. Especially at this time, it’s the only one that is working, having both a local API as well as option to use Invidious API.
I pulled the apk straight from their github page via Obtainium. You may want to give it a try.
They are working on it. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/discussions/11260
I saw a comment somewhere that apps using Invidious as a fallback were often still working. Have observed this to be the case for FreeTibe on desktop. Though it’s still hit and miss which videos want to play for some reason.
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?
As i always said, people will go joyfully if someone can selfhost WHOLE YouTube content out there, YouTube became modern library of Alexandria while main page is shit and giggles, there’s a lot of useful tutorials and education videos
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!
I take it all the third party apps are scraping, as opposed to using an API?
The sun will freeze over before Google would give them an API.
Youtube mess with it’s API. Wait a day or two for the frontends to fix themselves.
Libretube works fine for me, tho i usually use pipepipe and fall back to libretube and clipious in case like this
I bet they want to be played. They’re just a little shy, is all.
yeah we all get shy sometimes. it happenes
Yeah, same thing with Tubular. Probably a change on YT’s side of things that breaks third party apps again.
