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RustyTube: A rusty Youtube client. (Desktop) (github.com)

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[-] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 5 points 2 months ago

Youtube have been cracking down on all sort of third party clients lately.

[-] w00t@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

NewPipe and Freetube are working fine tho

[-] chebra@mstdn.io 6 points 2 months ago

@TwinTusks @w00t

Looks like yesterday Youtube simply stopped serving the format 22 (ytdl -f22, IIRC that was 480p video+audio) on all videos, so now anything that had this format selected as default is failing (@invidious). -f18 is still there (360p).

[-] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 1 points 2 months ago

Interesting, but I been having issues with frontends for days now,

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They're locking down on IPs which consume traffic like a bot/ alternate distribution platforms like Invidious instances. AFAIK the softwares itself isn't blocked. Please try and correct everyone you see on this forum who says otherwise

[-] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 2 months ago

@MigratingtoLemmy you are wrong though. They are adding tokens and signatures, without them the videos aren't playing. But I just updated my invidious and it's playing fine again => it's not an IP block (yet), it is a change in the youtube media api, so the players need to be changed too = effectively a player block.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

TBH unless this is a coordinated effort against Invidious and other apps or should affect a lot of other things too. Or does this change not affect embedded media in pages?

[-] chebra@mstdn.io 0 points 2 months ago

@MigratingtoLemmy Yesterday I saw a broken embedded video on LinkedIn so.....

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh well. Thanks for correcting me. I guess they're trying to play hard

[-] chebra@mstdn.io 0 points 2 months ago

@MigratingtoLemmy Yup, there are even some similarities from the Twitter/Nitter fight - tracking tokens, IP blocks, API limits, ... Get ready for youtube requiring login to watch videos.