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ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

This is why Iā€™ve always been confused about people telling me to use an ad-blocker. How tf does that help with the app?

I have NewPipe now so itā€™s not a problem.

Zidane ,

Greyjay has been working fine for me ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ

possiblylinux127 ,

Piped and Invidious

SendMePhotos ,

Yewtu.be

primrosepathspeedrun ,

okay but what do we do about backing up the massive library of content that only exists on youtube? how do we back that shit up, so when they break those, it isā€™t all lost forever?

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You

Try

Distinguishing

Literal

Pizza

skullgiver ,
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

What browser? What hardware? Iā€™ve seen this error before when H.264 decoding broke on my phoneā€™s browser and the video literally couldnā€™t play. Iā€™m kind of wondering how long itā€™ll take before Google switches to AV1 by default (which either your phone can either decode well on recent devices, or barely at all on older devices without AV1 video acceleration).

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

What browser are you using?

Firefox + uBlock Origin is still working for me right now.

Edit: hmm, could be a regional thing too. Iā€™m in the US.

Viking_Hippie OP ,

Nightly with uBO, so thatā€™s not itā€¦

Voyajer ,
@Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

have you tried desktop mode? It may just be looking at the useragent

BlackLaZoR ,

Use Odysee ffs.

Viking_Hippie OP ,

I was curious so I googled searched on duckduckgo for it

attempting to solve some of these problems with blockchain technology.

Welcome to whiteboard crypto, the #1 Youtube channel for crypto education

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ab980536-f00d-4bd8-93aa-f7e9af7087cc.gif

kitnaht ,

If Odysee wasnā€™t filled with so much racist, misinformed, crypto-slinging bullshit, maybe normal people would actually use it. Right now, the best solution is joining someoneā€™s patreon.

BlackLaZoR ,

If Odysee wasn't filled with so much racist, misinformed, crypto-slinging bullshit

Deal with it. Otherwise you'll take every single monopolistic abuse from Google, and you'll just complain and keep using it

kitnaht ,

I am dealing with it: By not using it.

possiblylinux127 ,

Iā€™m not a Nazi

BlackLaZoR ,

Would using Odysee turn you into one?

possiblylinux127 ,

Yes

BlackLaZoR ,

-_-

gravitas_deficiency ,

Haha oh shit, theyā€™re killing mobile browser view???

Viking_Hippie OP ,

Yup!

sunzu2 ,

Fuxk u peasant... That's what

serpineslair ,

I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Googleā€™s desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to ā€œsign in to confirm you are not a robotā€. I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.

Viking_Hippie OP ,

I use SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone. Except for links from Lemmy.

If this bullshit is/becomes a thing for every YouTube video, Iā€™m gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy šŸ¤¬

Agreed on Peertube btw.

expatriado ,

i got NewPipe set as default, so links from Lemmy open there instead of the YT app

Viking_Hippie OP ,

I finally managed to do that too, so thereā€™s that šŸ–• to Google. And then the specific video hit me with the dreaded ā€œnot available in your countryā€ bullshit šŸ¤¦

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?

Rentlar ,

Alternatively, just use the share link on any function, and route it to the appropriate app. In this case, share a Youtube Link to the official app or to NewPipe.

314xel ,
@314xel@lemmy.world avatar

UntrackMe, doesā€™t open an app, but redirects to a chosen Invidious instance. I use farside.link/invidious which chooses a random instance closer to you.

serpineslair ,

There is a similar thing already written, minus the automatic part. You set it as your default browser and lets you do all sorts of things to the link before opening it in a browser. It lets you choose which app to use the link in afterwards. You can unshort urls, it checks for malware or redirectsā€¦ You get the picture. Not sure if this helps with what you are after:

f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

Moonrise2473 ,

You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default ā€œYouTubeā€ app, all links will be open in that

Kethal ,

Whenever I have issues with YouTube refusing to do things it used to do, I stop using it for a while and eventually they put it back. If youā€™re not willing to do that, I find that the NewPipe app is better than the native YouTube app. But be warned that occasionally Google makes changes that break New Pipe and you need to wait a couple days for the devs to catch up to the change.

Viking_Hippie OP ,

Yeah, Iā€™ve used NewPipe for ages, but YouTube links from Lemmy open in my browser, so Iā€™m gonna have to copy paste into it, which is going to be all kinds of annoying šŸ˜”

PlasticExistence ,

Try turning on the desktop version of the site once the link is open in the browser.

RandomStickman ,
@RandomStickman@fedia.io avatar

Try Better Open With. Maybe you can set it to open YT links on NewPipe. Or Revanced as another option.

Viking_Hippie OP , (edited )

I tried BOW, but it didnā€™t register Lemmy OR NewPipe as existing, so that was a dud.

I then realized that maybe I could set a global rule for all the YouTube addresses to open in NewPipe and I could so I did!

I then clicked the link that originally gave me the OP message. It opened in NewPipeā€¦ And I got the fucking ā€œnot available in your countryā€ message in stead!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d742c60f-977f-4c0f-a4f3-b2ed03dfde02.jpeg

Dr_Box ,

Another attempt at blocking ad blockers

expatriado ,

we need an adblockers blockers blocker

ObviouslyNotBanana ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

uBlock

thisbenzingring ,

No you!

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