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.
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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I'm pretty sure most people anticipated it at some point. I just seems to be starting now.
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.
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
Noooooooooo! The poor google 😢
their $412,378/s has been reduced to $412,367/s! 😭 😭
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They’re making plenty of profit selling all of our data  and getting ad revenue from the 95%+ of other users who aren’t blocking them.
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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.
Real heroes don't wear capes, they give solid advice.
ps: thanks
Thanks. Worked for me.
Took me a while to find the setting under the audio and video section of the settings, because I was constantly looking for it under instance, general or advanced.
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Got a question, I just found out about LibreTube from this post. I use NewPipe on phone and FreeTube on laptop, but LibreTube's UI looks really good so want to give it a try. Is "YouTube will know your IP" a concern in terms of privacy or because of something else related to them know your IP is using apps that remove ads?
I've never been worried about YouTube knowing I use another app to access their stuff, so just curious if this is "just" about Google knowing you IP or something more.
I know this is the privacy community and don't want to downplay the "Google knowing your IP" part but curious about this and being so explicit on the app setting as well when you turn it on
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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.
I updated mine last week cuz it was stopping videos a minute in. Seems to work for now.
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I watch more YouTube than I do television these days.
As of now, I'm able to watch it ad free on both Brave and Firefox. I don't have revanced as I'm more or less too technically stupid to do it.
If it becomes impossible to watch YouTube, I'll walk away from it just like I did cable in 2009 and Netflix in 2023.
I haven't sailed the high seas since the eighties, and I'd honestly prefer not to, but you gotta make a product that doesn't consistently try to piss me off.
What are good firefox add-ons for blocking?
uBlock Origin is really all you need for blocking ads, if you also wanna deal with the whole sponsors on videos SponsorBlock is a good companion!
The only answer is Ublock Origin.
Aside from that, you can do adblocking for your entire network and everything on it via Pi-hole. It requires no modification for the devices on your network and will work for literally any device connected to it.
If you combine those two, the odds of seeing any ad anywhere isn't zero, but it is close enough to zero to effectively be zero.
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[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/](uBlock Origin)
Ublock origin.
I also add privacy badger in just to pass of the trackers.
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I guess that's it then. If I'm forced to see ads and be tracked I'll just block the domain on my network like I did reddit and invest that time in other things.
You can always grab a browser extension. Apple has Vinegar, not sure what others run. Just plucks the video feed direct pretty much like Piped. So no ads. Still stuck on YT unfortunately
Would it be possible for many, many people to use yt downloaders to fetch certain categories of yt videos (Linux tutorials for example) and serve them in a decentralized media network like the fediverse? Basically a distributed, downloaded "migration" of yt content, with no central source or authority that the pipe apps can retrieve from instead of YouTube. Yet again, I've basically just reinvented bittorrent but for YouTube content, so maybe it's not that practical...
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Good to know what was going on — I just noticed yesterday that piped vids weren’t loading for me.
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I just wish Peertube had proper federation and a more accessible interface, some of their decitions sadly make is a unvaiable alternative! :(
It's time LibreTube moved on from Pipe Backend too. Too many times the app just doesn't work leading to server hopping and more.
I could use NewPipe but the app has a really terrible UI.
LibreTube existence is built upon Piped as far as I know. Even the developer wants you to donate to Piped instead of LibreTube as far as I remember.
Isn't Piped the only way to easily mask YouTube history with Google? So I think we should be very thankful of the existence of Piped
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NewPipe has been having a lot of issues as well. Videos crash a minute in and the only way to solve it is to clear cache which only works for one video.
It's not that bad i think. Better than having to endure adds..
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We should open our own YouTube, with blackjack... and hookers! That'll show those google guys.
We already have peertube and Odysee. But majority of the content still lies in Youtube.
Man, just when I downloaded LibreTube. :(
Interesting how just a few weeks ago yt-dlp also stopped working, saying it was getting investigated in Germany.
It's actually the exact same problem, Youtube now blocks IPs on the video endpoint aka everything except for the actual stream works which is a new thi g to adapt to, they used to block access entirely before.
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