That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.
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User agent switcher to desktop it is.
Tried that, didn’t work for me.
Making NewPipe the default app for all YouTube links did, though 🙂
Wait, how then? Via screen resolution?
If you’re using Android, it’s Settings > Apps > Choose Default Apps > Opening Links > NewPipe and just select the relevant domains such as youtube.com and youtu.be
My bad. I meant how they detect that you’re on mobile. 😂
Some kind of hardware detection spyware cookie bullshit, probably 🤷
It could be that it’s playing in a codec that your mobile browser doesn’t support like av1 or something. Not sure though, is this happening with every video?
Surely it would fall back to mp4? Are some videos AV1/VP9 only?
I dont know if youtube has h264 support
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 you’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.
Yeah, I’ve used NewPipe for ages, but YouTube links from Lemmy open in my browser, so I’m gonna have to copy paste into it, which is going to be all kinds of annoying 😡
Try turning on the desktop version of the site once the link is open in the browser.
Try Better Open With. Maybe you can set it to open YT links on NewPipe. Or Revanced as another option.
I tried BOW, but it didn’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 NewPipe… And I got the fucking “not available in your country” message in stead!
“not available in your country” is easily fixed, just turn on your vpn
Assuming Android: Settings -> Apps -> Your YT app -> Set as default -> Enable everything
On my phone this can be set by going to settings, default apps, opening links, wait unusually long for the list to load, scroll to NewPipe, choose the links you want it to handle.
Same here, sans the wait heh. I did that earlier today 🙂
Another attempt at blocking ad blockers
we need an adblockers blockers blocker
we need an adblockers blockers blocker
no, what is needed is an app that helps track who benefits from thr apps that annly you most:
- ownership of companies pushing annoying ads
- management of companies pushing annoying ads
- find the connection between those and the products you maybe want to buy in shops or in internet before you buy, then instead of buying, let the app send the seller a message that you did not buy because of that connection.
- do this in numbers with lots of people and see what happens to the advertising jungle
the point is NOT buying because of advertising AND let them know it, so they can learn to improve themselves.
they wanted your data? let them have it the way you want them to.
same with any platform. ask the creator of your choice to also publish using patreon and you’ll become a member then, getting the content free of ads. better more directly pay who does the actual work, not all the big tech harvesting all the benefit inbetween.
so what maybe is needed here could be a free or even self-hostable platform that also allows payed subscriptions.
don’t like to use the /s, but maybe you needed it
uBlock
uBlock Origin - FTFY ❤️
Yeah I mean that one. Don’t use the other one.
No you!
What browser? What hardware? I’ve seen this error before when H.264 decoding broke on my phone’s browser and the video literally couldn’t play. I’m kind of wondering how long it’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).
What browser are you using?
Firefox + uBlock Origin is still working for me right now.
Edit: hmm, could be a regional thing too. I’m in the US.
Nightly with uBO, so that’s not it…
have you tried desktop mode? It may just be looking at the useragent
Fuxk u peasant… That’s what
Use Odysee ffs.
I’m not a Nazi
Would using Odysee turn you into one?
Yes
-_-
I’m OOTL here. Are we talking about a video hosting site that happens to have cringe on it?
Odysee and Rumble are the platforms that wackjobs (like flat earthers) have flocked to in the past year or so.
Those platforms aren’t promoting that content per se, it’s just that such content isn’t moderated like on YouTube and Facebook. And before you say “but there’s tons of that stuff on YouTube and Facebook already!” it doesn’t compare.
I believe that. Like Gab, right? The scum sinks to the bottom.
If I understand correctly, I think I side with the people saying use it anyway. Video hosting is hard, and YouTube is more enshittified every day.
I was curious so I googled it
attempting to solve some of these problems with blockchain technology.
Welcome to whiteboard crypto, the #1 Youtube channel for crypto education
If Odysee wasn’t filled with so much racist, misinformed, crypto-slinging bullshit, maybe normal people would actually use it. Right now, the best solution is joining someone’s patreon.
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
I am dealing with it: By not using it.
And watch what exactly?
Piped and Invidious
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 is’t all lost forever?
You
Try
Distinguishing
Literal
Pizza
I’ve always asked “what does that ever mean?” Now, thsi answers my question
okay but I have less than 100TB on my systems, and most of that is backups.
You don’t have to hoard your back ups 😭
I don’t, but I do use some of the space for backups.
Yes
To
Definitely
Liking
Playback
Greyjay has been working fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve really enjoyed greyjay. I don’t yet have creators I follow outside of YouTube, but I love the concept.
unfortunately a lot of the bigger alternatives are just filled with right wing nutters. although hopefully apps like grayjay will make it easier for less political minded people find a home on other platforms
This is why I’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 it’s not a problem.
“this ad blocker doesn’t help with solving my not-at-ad issue! what good is it?!”
I mean the ads on the app are just as bad
Those are baked into the app, though
I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google’s desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to “sign in to confirm you are not a robot”. I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.
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, I’m gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy 🤬
Agreed on Peertube btw.
i got NewPipe set as default, so links from Lemmy open there instead of the YT app
I finally managed to do that too, so there’s that 🖕 to Google. And then the specific video hit me with the dreaded “not available in your country” bullshit 🤦
Thank you for letting me know this was a thing!! Total game-changer.
- 1000 for SmartTube!! I finally side-loaded uYou for my iphone and last time I used my android tablet I was able to update reVanced but thats been forever ago.
I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?
Not necessary, apps can register to open links from specific domains.
The only caveat is that if they don’t also own the domain - like Google owns both youtube.com and the YouTube Android app - you have to manually go to the settings for the app in System Settings and enable them, under ‘Open by default’.
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.
You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default “YouTube” app, all links will be open in that
UntrackMe, does’t open an app, but redirects to a chosen Invidious instance. I use farside.link/invidious which chooses a random instance closer to you.
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 redirects… You get the picture. Not sure if this helps with what you are after:
Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing instances. Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and some Peertube instance.
Edit: replaced a word with “instance” and added word “instance”
Yes!I couldn’t agree more on all that if I tried 🫶
Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.
By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income
Shit, if anything anybody popular would be costing themselves money through hosting.
There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They’re just down out by the fascists.
Problem is:
Peertube doesn’t pay
You have to pay for the backup/storage of your videos.
PT will have massive scaling pains.
Yt spends a lot of that advertising money hosting non profitable videos for free.
Haha oh shit, they’re killing mobile browser view???
Yup!
I seriously doubt it. At most this is probably an A/B-test or some content-specific restrictions.
I tried last night to view a video I saw someone on SpaceHey had in their main page and couldn’t do it on my phone or desktop browser. Phone wasn’t in any way doing anything outside of the standard ublock origin on Mull, which has never had issues if I ever needed an “emergency” yt lookup. Desktop browser Firefox based with libredirect wasn’t working since I’ve been having issues connecting and using Invidious and Piped instances for a while.
Ended up having to switch to Freetube on my desktop to view the video and it was worth it. The errors I kept getting where to sign in to confirm I’m not a bot.
This was the video (assuming the instance is still up in the future)
Mobile browser worked for me, I used m.youtube.com instead of invidious
Finally a post that isn’t about politics
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