Grayjay can get around that issue in most cases.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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Unfortunately that is proprietary software, i.e. it restricts the users four essential freedoms :/
Meh, as long as it works... I can always switch off grayjay. And the source is available
Whats wrong with it? its open source: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
It's source available, not open source.
It severely limits what can legally be done by restricting modifications and prohibiting "commercial" distribution:
You may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.
You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
Non-commercial purposes is extremely vague by the way. Depending on the country - or even the court in a country - nearly everything distributed on the internet is for commercial purposes.
For example, in Germany, only commercial websites have to put up a legal disclosure consisting of address, full name, phone number and email. Yet courts have ruled that every single website that is available to the public is "commercial" - only private webpages available to a handful of people are non-commercial. If anyone redistributed the software in Germany this license would be grounds for a successful lawsuit.
freetube for windows and linux. newpipe for android.
I'm having the same issue on Freetube, it pops up and says it can't play the video because Youtube requires being signed in. Sometimes if I retry a couple of time it'll play, but usually keeps getting the same error. Freetube is great though, maybe they'll come up with a solution soon.
Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.
Edit: with or without VPN makes no difference either
Unfortunately this has been going on few several months now. YT is actively blocking IPs if they think they are from data centers, VPNs, or proxies.
They've also been doing some under the hood cryptographic changes that cause breakages from time to time in Invidious (the backend for FreeTube)
I had a private invidious instance, with the bad idea to be attached with my paid domain, and even it was private , google crawl bots listed it into the Google Safe Browsing blacklist. In consequence, my domain admin (NJALLA) banned me: i had 1 year paid, they didn't refund, and imagine the disaster in all my self hosted apps.
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Unfortunately, neither fixes this. Grayjay seems to work, but its inconsistent in my experience, often repeatedly returning to the beginning of the video part-way through.
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So bots just have to sign in?
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.
I'm once again asking you to host Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend) locally on your PC.
How does one embark on such a journey?
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
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Copy URL, yt-dlp <dat URL>.
I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp mpv <dat URL>
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.
Revance it
Revanced still uses microG
this is likely youtube's way of trying to persuade people into making an account, without going public that they are forcing people to make accounts.
I found it does that if im logged out on a VPN, but standard residential IP's it doesn't with.
I assume eventually it's going to just require a google account to use the service period
I only speak for myself but the day they require it, bye. I'll miss the creators that I follow but the ones I directly patron through other ways, I'll watch elsewhere. I get that servers cost money but Google isn't losing money, they just want more.
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It sounds like they're getting ready for age verification, which will be mandated in some countries this year.
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That's been happening to me lately also. I've used NewPipe on Android to get around to.
Have a look at peertube, it's gotten to a point where it can definitely supplement YT.
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
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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.
Happens to me every now and then, I just switch vpn servers, then it works fine. It's inconsistent, the same server that was suspicious one day is fine the next. I'm guessing it depends on how many youtube videos are being streamed on that particular sever at that time
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FreeTube isn't working for IP related issues atm, I'm having more luck with NewPipe.
(edit) Fix in the latest update!
Also has this problem. For me, the issue is vpn, so I switch to a random server that hasn't been blacklisted
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.
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.
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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.
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