And I’m sure it’s annoying you too. You can’t view a single YouTube video anymore anywhere one is posted, without that stupid notification popping up. Which forces you to have to go to the shitty YouTube site, log in, hope through whatever verification checks that there is and finally, you can watch the video.
Isn’t there a way anymore where people can just link videos and for them to play? Fuck you, Google.
Free VPNs will get that a lot.
Even in paid VPNs, you still have to change servers until you find one that works.
Proton VPN (despite CEO controversies) is probably the best one to get around that, since they have 11000 servers.
I got this message when not on vpn. Changed it to a eastern block country and it disappeared instantly.
I had this problem for a while. When my kid hit a certain age, he was good enough to search out what he wanted to see on YouTube, he kept getting into stuff he didn’t need to see. I tried various YouTube replacements, age restrictions, It was dicey there a number of creators that he watched that weren’t exactly kids material but provided educational value.
I eventually ended up scripting some stuff to pull down new videos from his YouTubers on a daily basis. At some point or volume they would start blacklisting my IP for capcha.
Meanwhile, at least 90 percent of comments on Youtube are made by bots.
On the Internet, 90 percent of statistics are made up.
Dead internet theory is real, at least on youtube.
Its a self-perpetuating cycle. Set aside the normally deplorable state of YouTube comments. Once you hit a critical mass of “Neat!” and “I liked it 💖🇺🇸🎆” and “Prussy en bi0” comments, why the hell would you bother reading much less participating? Then human interactions tank and its Oops! All Bots! in short order.
I am less annoyed by YouTube being shit and more annoyed by 3rd party websites clinging to YouTube for their video hosting needs because it is free. I’m also annoyed by the degree to which scrappers and other automation tools have made “Are You A Bot?” filters necessary to conserve the (relatively) limited resources of big retail web front-ends.
Like, fuck YouTube, sure. But they’re not putting these blocks up for the thrill of it. They’re trying to limit served content to actual humans rather than automated engines intended to juice view counts and harvest “free” data for AI training.
When I was signing up for something, (maybe Lemmy?) I got caught in a CAPTCHA where I had to identify street lights. Every time I clicked one the picture would change and there would be more street lights. Eventually I gave up, clicked Submit and it let me in.
Yeah I hate that too. For me it’s always bicycles, buses or motorcycles. All the fucking time.
Anybody know the difference between FreeTube, LibreTube, and NewPipe? Are there even more?
These are all unique and different projects with their own codebases, devs and issues. If you want to learn more, try searching for their official git repos. If you want to see a quick list of YouTube related apps, with screenshots, feature lists, and links to the project pages then I suggest using F-Droid with the
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repoenabled, and just searchingyoutube.For a bit more details on how yo do that check out my other comment https://lemmy.world/comment/15622037.
Ok. I wanna make this happen on Android. I am a complete dummy and the only thing I ever got off github had like step by step written instructions somewhere. What do I do?
Do I just download the freetube-0.23.2.13-Android.apk (latest release) from the releases site… Or do I need to build it first or something from the link you provided? Building it seems extremely daunting.
You can totally just install the latest release straight from the git repository. However, how often will you remember to check if there is a new release? If you want your apps to stay up-to-date you have 2 options. (Ordered from least effort to most effort)
- F-Droid (minimal setup, slower releases)
- Install F-Droid or one of the many 3rd party clients (I like Droid-ify the most right now)
- enable the
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repoin the Repository settings of the F-Droid client - install FreeTube Android
- Obtainium (moderate setup, quickest releases)
- Install the latest release of Obtainium directly from the git repo
- go to app configurations search for Obtainium and click on the
add to Obtainiumbutton so that Obtainium can update itself when there is a new release. - In Obtainium, click on
Add App. Then insert the release page URL for FreeTube Android (https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid/releases) as the value forApp Source URL, then click theAddbutton next to it and you are set.
You are amazing! Thank you so much! Cowabunga!
Interesting, I do use Freetube on laptop but it’s been finicky about when it wants to work lately. I figured it was more of YT blocking bs.
I tried Newpipe for Android and it wouldn’t work, so I went to the fork PipePipe which does work better, but at some point I had to login so it could use my API because YT blocked that too. Plus PipePipe can scan NicoNico videos and Bilibili videos.
How good is Freetube on android?
I love it and yes, sometimes youtube makes a breaking change that any dev needs to find a work around for.
I use freetube on both because I can manage subscriptions better on it, and export to newpipe or freetube desktop easily. Freetube also includes sponsor block which is great.
I also keep newpipe on my phone as a backup since sometimes it works when freetube doesn’t. I auto-update freetube from fdriod but let obtainum auto-update newpipe straight from their git repo so I know I got a good chance if having at least one working app.
I haven’t tried pipepipe, it’s been a long time since I watched a billibilli vid. (BGM!!!)
Are you a bot? Because that’s the kind of post a bot would do.
You’re in violation of the 84’ treaty on account of illegal thoughts.
Beep Boop.
…and that’s exactly what a bot would SAY!
Captchadgot them!
I was trying to recover my Steam password last night and failed so many of those “check all the boxes with MOTORCYCLES” that it stopped even letting me try anymore. Fucking broken bullshit.
I’ve failed those before, probably because I move rather mechanically. I’ve tried deliberately putting delays and random mouse movements while don’t them.
Lol I’ve had the same thought. On ones that make you click all the squares that have a bike or whatever, I always click a wrong one and then unselect it. Ya, that’s totally human behavior now.
Piped is working again. I use it and Newpipe
I use revanced and nexttube
But do either of them allow like embedded links to be shared?
It’s so they can track you better.
If you’re in the US and using a Chromium based browser, so long as you don’t view “adult content” they usually don’t pop this up.But they can’t track in Firefox, and because of GDPR, they can’t track logged-out users in the EU, so it’s all about the money. I use Vivaldi and a VPN to watch youtube, works mostly fine.EDIT: Well never-fucking-mind…this strategy has worked for me without fail for a lonnnnng time, and today they got me…same day the pulled uBlock origin from the Chrome store…dicks.
Pipepipe
Whenever I encounter that while trying to view something in private browsing (to avoid it tainting my recommendations), I go out of my way to use an alternative frontend just to spite them.
It’s a necessary evil sadly. The internet is so overrun with bots that if there wasn’t a captcha or those cloudflare “click here to pass” buttons, the internet would implode.
