Piped not playing videos · Issue #2809 · TeamPiped/Piped
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Official Instance The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related. Describe the bug For some reason the videos dont load and I cant watch piped. I primarily use piped cau...
  • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Not to be a downer but… how did people not anticipate this happening? Google is likely going to do everything they can to shut down non-official clients like Piped, since they’re sidestepping all of YouTube’s revenue streams. Hopefully they don’t take the nuclear option and somehow lock down the API and make it much harder to download videos via tools like yt-dlp.

    • BrioxorMorbide@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Well, if they implement their web integrity DRM thingy in Chrome and Youtube then that will prevent anything that’s not a real approved browser from accessing the website, and with that the video streams. Not only Piped/Newpipe, but anything automated trying to access any website will be automatically locked out unless the website approves of it. New search engine bot? Archiving crawlers? Any type of third party program that accesses some website’s content without approval? Dead.

    • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyzEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      Yeah we’re basically hurting their revenue by using Piped and other ways to bypass Google’s ads. They wouldn’t be profitable if everyone stopped watching those ads

        • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
          01·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, they should provide thousands of gigiabits of video streaming to everyone for free. It’s our right!

            • FLemmingO@lemm.eeEnglish
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              11 months ago

              You know they wouldn’t get paid if nobody watched the ads. And if they didn’t get paid they wouldn’t have any reason to pay to run the site. Explaining that a corporation will not run a site like YouTube for free (which it wouldn’t even be, it costs a lot of money to run) if they weren’t getting paid. Quit attacking other users simply for pointing out facts. It’s beneath you (I think)

                • FLemmingO@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  11 months ago

                  I never said that Google is on the verge of collapse, nor did I defend them. I merely stated that Google is a corporation, driven by profit, and expecting Google to act in the interest of anything but their own profits is a fool’s fantasy. Quit putting words in people’s mouths. It’s unbecoming of anyone that wants to have a legitimate discussion and it’s just toxic.

            • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
              01·
              11 months ago

              Enthusiasts who want to earn money off the platform, yes.

              • VinceUnderReview@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                11·
                11 months ago

                Ah yes, because humans never want to share information, or show others something they’ve achieved or created. The only possible motivation could be money.

                • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
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                  11 months ago

                  That’s not what I’m saying, but these people choose to upload their content to YouTube specifically, so what’s your point?

              • iegod@lemm.ee
                01·
                11 months ago

                As a contributor who doesn’t monetize videos, you don’t speak for everyone.

    • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
      01·
      11 months ago

      It amazes me how entitled these Internet hippies are nowadays. You can’t expect someone to provide such a huge service for free. If you don’t like ads, pay for it. It’s like $5 per month when you pay as a group…

      • Tunawithshoes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 months ago

        I would pay if

        1. Google promised not collect any data but now you would pay and have your data collected.

        2. I just want load my subscription feed and they are all there not hidden away.

        3. Hid shorts or have them on separate tab.

        4. Bonus would be if related videos where acutely related videos in time span. Not the mess they are now.

        Also why would I have to pay YouTube music? I don’t want that.

    • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de
      01·
      11 months ago

      I’m not going to be popular saying this but how is the service supposed to survive without a revenue stream? It takes a shit ton of bandwidth and storage to keep YouTube running, that ain’t free.

      I get that the ads are incredibly annoying but if you truly watch as much YouTube as some people in this thread are claiming, maybe it’s worth paying for it? I bit the bullet and for basically the price of my cancelled Spotify subscription I now have no ads in YT and an okay streaming service with yt music.

      Of course Google could do things better. And actually I think it would be important to have a competitor. But I wouldn’t expect that one to be free either.

  • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    11 months ago

    If you are using LibreTube this is fixable by disabling piped proxies in the setting. HOWEVER do be warned that Youtube will know your IP, so you should only really do this while using a VPN service.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    11 months ago

    They are definitely in a crackdown phase. Some revanced versions stopped working just yesterday, the yt-dlp stuff, the ad block block…

    The best hope would be to get off of YouTube but that’s not happening any time soon given how expensive bandwidth is.