I mean its lame but it’s pretty much standard at this point. Gotta make an account to use anything these days.
My solution is to avoid services that are anti-lurker.
If im not able to view it without logging in, i just accept it, not watch it, and move on with my life.
IG ain’t gonna get me.
Newpipe is working
Huge, got worried
no desktop for newpipe? is it just the android app?
There is Piped, which is a web version of NewPipe
You can use Waydroid
So bots just have to sign in?
I’m once again asking you to host Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend) locally on your PC.
How does one embark on such a journey?
Quite easy with Docker: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-method-production
The real problem is that it’s a pain sometimes and the fact they suggest to restart every hour is even worse. Recently, I had a problem where it started to play some videos and then stopped the playback and from there it went in a reloading loop till you get something like
Refreshing does nothing. Restarting is the same
IDK about invidious, but on Piped I had to add a container that grabs POtokens for the Newpipe API to use to pull videos.
For me, it’s running for months and I had to load new image updates sometimes, because YouTube likes to break it, but this was maybe once a month…
Most of the times it works but sometimes it’s just a pain to deal with the problem I mentioned. Do you restart it once in a while?
Maybe, once a month when YouTube breaks their site and a video does not load via Invidious, I execute
docker compose pull docker compose down docker compose up -dto load the latest images and usually, it works again.
I have no automated restarts every few hours or days.
I have to see and solve this
Have had some success just by reloading the page when I get this message
As someone without a YT account, I have seen this with regards to age verification (on rather random videos, actually), but not with “you might be a bot” reason.
Since I always browse with VPN + lots of privacy protections, I feel like half the websites I visit think I’m a bot. It’s a pain in the arse.
Just turn off these plugins and VPN boy, it is safe here 🤡
Turns out reCAPTCHAs aren’t actually ‘tracking the way you move your mouse’ but just trying to match you to one of the billions of statistical models held in Google datacenters that represent the device fingerprints, personalities, locations, and preferences of every Internet user they track.
And when they fail to match you… then they presume you’re not a real person.
This is usually because they’re using a common VPN service. I’ve found that connecting to Ireland gets me past this prompt more often than not, but that likely won’t last long.
VPN Ireland has been my go-to for years. If it stops I’m gonna be pissed.
I thought about making an *arr application for automating the downloading of your subscribed youtube channels and in quality you want. I want to call it yarrtube. Idk if anyone would be interested or not so only been a pipe dream.
Copy URL,
yt-dlp <dat URL>.I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp
mpv <dat URL>
welcome to my life
If you click Cancel and then simply search for the same video you can watch it without signing in. Total horseshit but still a good ‘fuck you’ move against YouTube.
Have a look at peertube, it’s gotten to a point where it can definitely supplement YT.
Peertube is great, I wish more people started uploading their content to it
It isn’t even close to YouTube.
That’s no lie, hence supplement, not replace. But the community can only grow, if people start using it more, even just a little bit in addition to YT where it works for them.
I’m deaf and the large majority of peertube videos don’t have captions :/
hmmm should probably find their request list and vote up AI captioning
At least from what I’ve seen, a lot more videos than in the past seem to have transcripts and captions, including automatically generated captions. I recently moved all my old YT videos (mostly German YoutubePoops from the early 2010s) over to peertube.wtf and they had automatic captions generated without input on my end, in English and German both.
I’ve just stopped watching. Plenty of other stuff to do. If they don’t want to show me their ads that’s their problem.
I mean that’s a way to check for bots
GrayJay
Also has this problem. For me, the issue is vpn, so I switch to a random server that hasn’t been blacklisted
FreeTube
FreeTube isn’t working for IP related issues atm, I’m having more luck with NewPipe
I have been using freetube for a while now which is also facing this issue so it looks like a tug of war between the clients and YouTube which is getting others in the crossfire as well. But for some reason, when I add haruna as external player in freetube and launch a video it always works. Guessing other video players like vlc might also work which you can use with freetube and maybe other privacy focused clients.
