Piped not playing videos · Issue #2809 · TeamPiped/Piped
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Official Instance The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related. Describe the bug For some reason the videos dont load and I cant watch piped. I primarily use piped cau...
  • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • BrioxorMorbide@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyzEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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

        • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
          01·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, they should provide thousands of gigiabits of video streaming to everyone for free. It’s our right!

              • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                11·
                1 year ago

                Ah yes, because humans never want to share information, or show others something they’ve achieved or created. The only possible motivation could be money.

                • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  That’s not what I’m saying, but these people choose to upload their content to YouTube specifically, so what’s your point?

              • iegod@lemm.ee
                01·
                1 year ago

                As a contributor who doesn’t monetize videos, you don’t speak for everyone.

    • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de
      01·
      1 year ago

      I’m not going to be popular saying this but how is the service supposed to survive without a revenue stream? It takes a shit ton of bandwidth and storage to keep YouTube running, that ain’t free.

      I get that the ads are incredibly annoying but if you truly watch as much YouTube as some people in this thread are claiming, maybe it’s worth paying for it? I bit the bullet and for basically the price of my cancelled Spotify subscription I now have no ads in YT and an okay streaming service with yt music.

      Of course Google could do things better. And actually I think it would be important to have a competitor. But I wouldn’t expect that one to be free either.

    • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
      01·
      1 year ago

      It amazes me how entitled these Internet hippies are nowadays. You can’t expect someone to provide such a huge service for free. If you don’t like ads, pay for it. It’s like $5 per month when you pay as a group…

      • Tunawithshoes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        I would pay if

        1. Google promised not collect any data but now you would pay and have your data collected.

        2. I just want load my subscription feed and they are all there not hidden away.

        3. Hid shorts or have them on separate tab.

        4. Bonus would be if related videos where acutely related videos in time span. Not the mess they are now.

        Also why would I have to pay YouTube music? I don’t want that.

      • MagneticFusion@lemm.ee
        11·
        1 year ago

        The reason why most of us refuse to pay is because, as Louis Rossmann pointed out in a video, Youtube Premium does not actually let you watch shit offline for more than 3 days or something. Even though you have supposedly downloaded it, it asks you to connect to the internet before you can watch it.

        When you download a video you should require absolutely zero internet to go and rewatch it no matter how long in the future it is. But nah Youtube Premium requires you to turn back on the internet. I wonder why. Maybe, just maybe because even after you pay for the service, you are still the product so Google is not only taking your literal money but is gobbling up all of your data and selling it for even more money, and their download is a scam.

        No thanks, piracy is justified - Louis Rossmann.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.