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Can't watch youtube on any foss youtube front-end clients (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Titou@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Since a few days, im unable to watch any youtube videos with any foss clients(Tubular, NewPipe, etc...), is that a consequence of youtube starting to do ads injections ?

Edit : Libretube seems to work, thanks to thoses who mention it.

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[-] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Seems like something was changed by G*ogle which broke Newpipe's extractor. It's used by Newpipe, Tubular and Piped so all three broke. Invidious and Freetube work for now. Freetube is an app so you can try that if you want.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

NewPipe down for me. Invidious still ok.

[-] magi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pipepipe (its on fdroid) is the only one that got an update so far but I'd expect an update to others soonish. It seems to be some sort of change under the hood. But it seems to have been figured out

Also if using an android box smart tube next got several updates today and that is working

[-] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

I'd expect an update to others soonish.

Newpipe got updated

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Freetube has been pretty funky lately, but it still works.

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Check the newpipe debug apk its working I guess. Libretube is working fine. I think invidious works too.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I just watch youtube on Firefox for Android with ublock origin installed. Works fine

[-] Titou@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Yep but there's no fdroid fork, and im limiting the amount of aurora store's apps i install on my phone.

[-] AmaryllisBlues@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Fennec is on fdroid. It's Firefox without the branding. Also Mull which is a hardened version.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

No idea what any of that means blob-no-thoughts

[-] Titou@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

What you don't understand ?

[-] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Clipious, an invidious frontend is working and is in the F-Droid store

[-] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

You will have to go into settings and add servers before it will work. I forgot to mention that.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Haven't been able to open homepage on my main account since yesterday. It just says "something went wrong" every time. Not sure what's going on with youtube rn

[-] Titou@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I tried libretube and it work.

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