cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/14909762
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.
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The same is happening with NewPipe.
Yeah, my kid got to see a bunch of ads today.
sounds horrible, yesterday I couldn’t watch a video on Tubular so I just didn’t watch it.
Freetube on desktop has been working somewhat being able to switch to invidious. But for Android I’ve fallen back to Firefox + Ublock Origin + Sponsorblock.
freetube has an android app as well. it’s in beta but it’s been working pretty well for me.
it’s worth giving a shot.
I am yet to find an alternative for AndroidTV.
If you have iOS and airplay support you can use safari to airplay YouTube to the TV. I use the 1blocker and sponsorblock extension for safari.
Have you tried SmartTube? I’d say that’s what most people use on Android TV to get rid of ads.
It’s broken too fam … I’m in shambles
(Okay, actually, I’m fine… But it is annoying)
Oh sorry, thought the question was about finding an app in general.
My working theory is that it has something do with YT trying to add ads directly in to the stream. This messes up timestamps and other metadata about the video and these clients don’t know how to deal with it yet.
In the case of Tubular (a NewPipe fork), the issue is getting code 403 (Forbidden), which prevents playing the video. It occurred sporadically while playing videos for some time but could always be fixed with a restart. Now this occurs at the very start while trying to play a video for all people at the same time. I’m strongly suspecting that this is a move aimed specifically at 3rd party players.
If that does happen and adblocker doesn’t work one work around that works for twitch will probably be vpn to a country where ads aren’t shown.
I got issues with both yt-dlp and Newpipe’s downloader as well.
Will this be how I’ll finally be able to ditch the last Google service I’m still using? That would be a win for me.
This is a regular occurence. Google breaks the newpipe extractor > Devs take 2-3 days > Its fixed and working > repeat every few weeks/months
Interesting that right now on the same home network all the same apps still work on my phone but not on the Chromecast anymore (I watch mostly on TV.
The moment they cut the cord on SmartTube (Android TV), I’ll block youtube on my local DNS. Fuck them!
Invidious is working fine, as of now.
Tubular and NewPipe both barely working all day for me. Maybe 1 out of 10 vids loads. Downloading fails too.
Btw, i never saw server side appps. Is it limited for now?
Who is “we”?
I can’t feel it on libretube
probably a lot of people that aren’t you. but I’m glad you felt the need to rush in to state that you are not being affected.
thank goodness you aren’t. i was really worried there.
Generally, changes on platforms like YouTube are always gradually rolled out.
Libretube works for me, but not Tubular.
Libretube not working for me.
