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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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 🤷
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 😡
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 🙂
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
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.
You’re so very welcome! 🙂
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.
UntrackMe, doesn’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:
You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default “YouTube” app, all links will be open in that
- 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.
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
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
Plus, those other platforms don’t have an audience.
Even Odysee, which has been around for several years, I only get 10s of views compared to the 3000-5000 that I get on youtube.
Shit, if anything anybody popular would be costing themselves money through hosting.
There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They’re just drown 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.
Fuxk u peasant… That’s what
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.
Finally a post that isn’t about politics
Don’t worry, it’ll let up after
November 4th,December 1st,January 6th,January 20th, Second Appomattox.
Use Odysee ffs.
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
We are lol, the monopolistic bullshit from Google is still better then that alt-right crypto hell hole.
I am dealing with it: By not using it.
I was curious so I
googledsearched on duckduckgo for itattempting to solve some of these problems with blockchain technology.
Welcome to whiteboard crypto, the #1 Youtube channel for crypto education
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.
And watch what exactly?
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
I’m already using SmartTube on my tv and Tubular’s parent app NewPipe on my phone and now I finally have it set up so all links to YouTube addresses on my phone open in NewPipe so that I don’t get this bullshit again 😁
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).
Well that might just completely kill YouTube on mobile for me. The only way to watch on my phone without their ads.
This is why I jailbreaked my iPhone
I am slowly switching back to podcasts, it is only question of time when yt quality goes bellow usability, they are dancing around that thin line like with search.
Or you could use NewPipe
Install GreyJay
UserAgent -> google chrome desktoo
Install desktoo
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
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.
I’ve always asked “what does that ever mean?” Now, thsi answers my question
Yes
To
Definitely
Liking
Playback
Everyone here is like “use this” “use that” which is great but the immediate solution is
switch to desktop mode
You’re welcome
I tried that, didn’t work. NewPipe does.
