Last two weeks every time I use Piped I am getting error “Sign in to confirm you are not a bot”. It happens on every instance and videos work very rarely. It seems like Google enforces you to log in if you try watch lot of videos from one IP. I hope this will not be end of Piped and there will be solution for this problem.
Upd. I got similar problem on Invidious recently
I’ve noticed Invidious instances having trouble recently as well. I’m sure they’re not dead though, just need to get the next mouse for the endless cat and mouse game.
You can usually find an invidious instance if you look through redirect.invidious.io. For example, if I try the servers for https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=aQsWzL7_RiI the 6th one down currently works.
NewPipe is broken for me. When I go to try to open the videos in my mobile browser, YouTube gives me the same error. So, YouTube itself is pretty much bricked to me on mobile, since I refuse to register an account.
I’m unsure if the behavior would persist if I disabled my VPN, but fuck that.
I operate an invidious instance. Google has really cracked down the past two weeks on YouTube front ends. Its extremely frustrating.
Invidious devs are finalizing a workaround so hopefully things will be working again in the next week or two.
Seems to be a big crackdown lately. Freetube and Grayjay are the only apps that seem to consistently work.
The advantage of FreeTube is that if it doesn’t work, it can use an Invidious instance as a fallback.
If you’re looking for an ad-free client that still works right now; In the 6 years I’ve been using YouTube (re)vanced on android, I’ve only had it fail to play videos for 1 single day around 6 months ago. That was fixed within 24hrs.
Not quite the same as a full custom instance/frontend like piped; but it’ll do the job while you wait for updates.
That’s not really privacy friendly, right? I don’t exactly know how it patches the apk and what it changes but it doesn’t remove trackers. Correct me if I’m wrong
Ah, I should have double checked the community… Got here from /all.
No, it’s not explicitly privacy friendly. It’s mainly focused on a wide variety of optional UX changes, returning several paywalled features like PIP/Background playback, and removing advertising as well as providing sponsor block.
