Im having similar issues with grayjay, freetube and newpipe. Non of them are working atm. Youtube is going downhill faster than it already was.
@Shape4985 @biancotitanio For me just pressing retry a few times fixes it. But maybe that’s just a/b testing and it will stop working completely in a few days :/
@nikos @Shape4985 @biancotitanio Same with haruna, the #kde net-enabled videoplayer.
I can still view some videos using newpipe, but sometimes it gets network errors during play. 😐
Just press repeat a few times and it works.
The extent of the problem seems to be progressing. The retry button worked for me for the most part at first but then by the next day had stopped working at all. Interestingly though, I discovered that loading the video in portrait mode first, hitting the play button and waiting for it to actually begin playing before going landscape seems to work. Don’t get why that makes a difference.
@Jimmycrackcrack @Lemmchen For me retry still works. I wonder for how long though, sounds like A/B testing…
This time they started blocking both residential IP addresses and VPNs to discourage yt-dlp, NewPipe etc. From what I noticed, you need to use official website to load cookies and maintain that session to continue watching videos. It’s irritating. I hope they fuck themselves and go out of business.
@PullPantsUnsworn same. May 2025 be the year of collapse for Big Tech.
I wish more people would start using peertube (framasoft’s federated video hosting software).
But if they are blocking residential IPs, how can I watch my Video on normal youtube? Or are the just gonna fuck everyone because a few people are using things such as newpipe?
They block 3rd party tools like yt-dlp, NewPipe etc from residential IP addresses. Probably they deployed solutions to differentiate normal YouTube session on their website and automated tools.
It’s not because of normal users, it’s because of AI companies. Whatever open tools are developed to circumvent tracking are immediately also being used to suck up all data for training material.
These companies use residential proxies to circumvent normal scraping detection. False positives are collateral damage to them.
Refreshing a couple times does the job until next patch comes out
@biancotitanio @newpipe They are doing their best 😐
My approach is to open in duckduckgo browser, using its yt player.Yeah happened to me too
Can’t even open 18+ videos (which is a bummer cuz some are marked 18+ for stupid reason)
That’s because the moral outrage idiots out there throw a removed fit even they see blood or hear swearing, which makes the idiots wasting money pushing ads touchy. Meanwhile everyone smart enough to go to the minor effort to block the ads have to suffer.
I know. The problem is that NewPipe says it can’t open the video due to Youtube TOS or something, which makes it loom like they’re not gonna fix it. And that’s a load of crap.
Wipe cached metadata in settings will at least temporarily fix the error.
