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Alternative YouTube clients having issues loading videos (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems YT started another attempt at blocking alternative clients. They changed something in their API and both SmartTube and Tubular (NewPipe fork) are completely broken. Apparently it started happening this past week, but we personally just felt it today.

Edit: SmartTube already has an update but still not working for 4K videos it seems. Tubular still not working but it might be due to the upstream (NewPipe) is still working on a fix.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

New pipe has issues too

Freetube still working

The arms race is on!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think google can win this without serverely limiting access to Youtube

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Agreed, but they can cause lots of friction to encourage people to use the official apps.

For now mull plus ublock origin are working on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

That's exactly their goal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's mull?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/mull-fenix

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hardened Firefox project for android.

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