Is freetube broken again?

[vopyr@lemmy.world]

Yup, I guess it's happening again... I tried to watch different videos, but I kept getting the http error.

[leadore@lemmy.world]

It's happening to me, too. No VPN. They always fix issues like this pretty quickly (couple days or so). It's always a constant battle to handle youtube's ongoing attempts to block them.

[perishthethought@lemm.ee]

FreeTube is not working for me either. For now though, I can get the preview and then copy the URL for videos I really want to watch. Then I grab them with Open Video Downloader and watch it in VLC.

https://github.com/StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui

[dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml]

external player (haruna in my case) invoked from freetube works fine.

[xelar@lemmy.ml]

I have found this thread on Endevaour OS forums where the OP looks for viable options:
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/privacy-focused-youtube-workflow/69414/17

[Guest]

Die you try to switch to another instance? And Gould Graujay be another voor alternatieve To freetube?

[Guest]

Yea It's been pretty annoying so I've just been using Grayjay with "Provide YouTube activity" disabled(that may be by default?)

App's still in Alpha but it's been stable actually, unlike the first two time I tried it, rather convenient all things considered.

Funnily enough PipePipe still works for me on mobile. Idk about NewPipe however. Worse come to worse I'd just download something with Cobalt.tools set to tunnel files for me.

[perishthethought@lemm.ee]

As of March 29, Version 0.23.3 seems to have fixed things again, if anyone finds this thread now.

https://freetubeapp.io/#download