Man it's been a long few days, glad they finally have a fix for it
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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If this happens again (which is very likely, I fear):
I've been downloading videos with
https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter (yt-dlp gui)
and watching them with mpv. Still looking for a Tube-Archivist/Pinchflat stlye app that doesn't download the whole channel (or makes me paste single URLs) but has a nice Freetube-like interface for downloading and watching offline ...
Wow, code formatting in the title? Go Lemmy
Markup applies to titles in Lemmy. But be aware that titles are displayed raw above comments so don't go too crazy with it, so your titles display okay raw too 🙂
Why do freetube and new pipe break at different moments in time ? Iirc, it first started for new pipe, then for a little while with pipepipe, and it's freetubes turn.
Google clearly has the ability to break any and all third party client at any time.
My theory is that they're conducting random campaigns of working-but-not-all-the-time on this or that client at different times to grind everybody down and force them to comply through shear exhaustion. Because if they banned all 3rd party client outright, it would negatively impact the antitrust case against them.
People who use alternative clients are just using add blockers on the main cite anyway so i don't see why YouTube should even try to stop them.
Because alternative clients offer features that only the for-pay official client offers, like subscriptions and playlists, and Google can't collect data on what people subscribe to or their playlists because in alternative clients, they're stored locally.
Google doesn't hate third-party clients because they skip ads: it hates them because they impede surveillance and privacy invasion, which is the true bread and butter of Google.
Fair point actually. I didn't think of that.
Oh excellent, it works again!!
I did notice the livesreams have not been affected, only uploaded videos. I'm waiting for a public release with the fix.
So the current build on the site is 2.3.1? How long does it take for the public release?
Very good news. It's been a long few days....
Is the headline supposed to have an error message in the middle of it? Or did mine break somehow?
"Freetube [BAD_HTTP_STATUS: 403] Potential causes: IP block or streaming URL deciphering failed is fixed" is what my headline says.
Appreciate the info. Is there a nightly repo for Flatpak variant?
The fix is now published (see "Assets" section): https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/releases/tag/v0.23.2-beta
Would be awesome if Freetube could automatically check if the video exists on Odysee and play it from there if YT copy is unavailable or blocked.
Glad to see it fixed cuz i just wanna watch yt privately.
EDIT: It appears that some videos are coming through and some are not.