Many YT privacy frontends are down it seems. YouTube is cracking down on these servers fast. Both Invidious and Piped services are not working now.

So how are you watching videos now? Just plain youtube[dot]com with unblock and VPN?

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Tubular on on mobile and trying to find a Non Electron app for pc

  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Close the door, turn off the lights, wear earbuds, pull a duvet over your head. Works every time. Might look a bit suspicious, but at least it’s private.

    Seriously though, it’s getting pretty bad. I’m currently shifting my video watching habits away from YT. I have a feeling that sooner rather than later I may have to quit YT completely.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    11 days ago

    I discovered that I watch enough YouTube to warrant paying for a premium subscription. I’ve turned off viewing history (after one vide, so the homepage renders).

    This isn’t a solution for everyone, but it works for me.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    Searching Videos on FreeTube but watching these in the SMplayer, because FreeTube lists theVideos, but often don’t play it. SMplayer works almost always, Also possible open the Video copying the URL in it. Another possibility is searching the Video with Andisearch and watch it there in the search results sandboxed and anonym with the random proxies which use Andisearch.

  • airikr@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    I download the videos I want to watch with yt-dlp. This applies to audio as well. I then add the videos to my Jellyfin server to watch them on the TV.

  • drascus@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    Freetube and newpipe for me. However I will say they just don’t work sometimes. So then I just am left with my browser.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I wish we had some sort of way to copy videos from YT to PeerTube on some sort of on-demand way.

    Like tell PeerTube the video you want, wait a few minutes, and then its available for everyone. Then it auto deletes after X days if it has had 0 views.

    Edit: oh man, you could even have a Lemmy bot do this automatically when it sees a link to a YouTube video.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 days ago

    Downie.app (MacOS) and yt-dlp (multiplatform).

    I am not watching YouTube content while these are blocked. I will not watch stupid ads. I will not submit to shitty platforms that suck. Until these work again, there is no YouTube.

    I’m finding other ways to fill my free time during the holiday break. I’ll have a bevy of new content to watch when they’re updated.