• @[email protected]
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    362 days ago

    I’m having the same issue on Freetube, it pops up and says it can’t play the video because Youtube requires being signed in. Sometimes if I retry a couple of time it’ll play, but usually keeps getting the same error. Freetube is great though, maybe they’ll come up with a solution soon.

    • NegativeNull
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      2 days ago

      Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.

      Edit: with or without VPN makes no difference either

      • @[email protected]
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        142 days ago

        Unfortunately this has been going on few several months now. YT is actively blocking IPs if they think they are from data centers, VPNs, or proxies.

        They’ve also been doing some under the hood cryptographic changes that cause breakages from time to time in Invidious (the backend for FreeTube)

        • @[email protected]
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          I had a private invidious instance, with the bad idea to be attached with my paid domain, and even it was private , google crawl bots listed it into the Google Safe Browsing blacklist. In consequence, my domain admin (NJALLA) banned me: i had 1 year paid, they didn’t refund, and imagine the disaster in all my self hosted apps.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 day ago

            oh shit, I did not even consider that could happen. I uh… need to go tear down an instance I don’t really use anymore.

      • @RedditRefugee69
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        22 days ago

        Oh my god, same! I’ve been using it for a week or so thanks to Lemmy and it stopped working yesterday.