A massive thanks to @LuanRT for providing the fix regarding to the extraction of the deciphering functions. Also, big thanks to @PikachuEXE for coming up with a potential alternative solution!
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Just in case anyone is curious:
If you navigate to “actions” on the github, you can download nightly versions that have the fixes days before the release is done.
Yay! I realized yesterday too. They are real heroe. Also, if the project dies at somepoint (likely due to YT hunting them and making their site even worse, I guess it’s time to stop relying in their crap and use real alternatives like Odysee and Peertube
I was having issues with it the other day, and so I pasted the URL into my browser and it would not let me watch past 1 min of any video without disabling ublock.
Needless to say, I didn’t watch the video. I’m done with using YouTube in any official way. If they successfully remove all options for avoiding ads on their site, then I will just never go there again.
Same. I’ve been tentatively exploring podcasts, since most of what I used YouTube for was listening to videos to get to sleep at night. It would be exciting if Peertube use picked up because of this, though.
Yay!!! Great news everyone
I’m not understanding why it doesn’t work when I turn on my VPN, though. Is there a way to watch Youtube and have the VPN on?
It works via my VPN. Maybe switch it to a different location?
Do you know of a working exit country/location? I’ve tried a few different locations with no dice, but if I know there is one that works for someone else, I’ll certainly try that.
If you are from a Western country, use smaller, non-English speaking countries.
Thanks. It seems maybe Italy works for the moment anyway.
Unfortunately the only invidious instance I’ve been able to rely on doesn’t enable the API endpoints. The admin is a real trooper though. I’m not sure if it’s the flagship.
Check out the workaround with an external player. It worked for me during the time friend didn’t work the past few days.
The external player thing has never worked for me, at least when I set it to VLC, which just displays an error. I must be missing something.
Edit: thanks for the replies, next time I’ll try mpv and/or haruna
I had the same issue, but
mpcmpv worked.I wish MPC had a linux version. One of the few pieces of Windows-only software (along with foobar2000) that I actually miss.
A few months back I decided to fuck around and see if I could get it working in wine, and it seemed to work OK, but pretty jank. Too jank to consider seriously using.
Sorry I meant to say MPV, on linux here.
Oh word… I tried MPV briefly but didn’t like it as much as vlc
Yes! The Freetube team are real heroes, and really keep up with the cat and mouse of it all at S-tier on all fronts, including even getting updates into flathub promptly, which not every project is good about.
Every time freetube is broken, I have to use grayjay interim, which pushes a fix almost immediately, while freetube takes a couple of days.
