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What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 days ago by cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Many YT privacy frontends are down it seems. YouTube is cracking down on these servers fast. Both Invidious and Piped services are not working now.

So how are you watching videos now? Just plain youtube[dot]com with unblock and VPN?

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[–] llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

There are several way, honestly. For Android, there's NewPipe. The app itself fetches the YouTube data. For PC, there are similar applications that do the same such FreeTube. Those are the solutions I recommend.

If you're one of those, you can also host your own Invidious and/or Piped instances. But I like NewPipe and FeeTube better.

[–] Undertaker@feddit.org 0 points 2 hours ago

NewPipe needs VPN or Tor for privacy which usually gets blocked

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've used freetube for a while and it seems like it's expierencing the same issues since I've been getting a lot of error messages lately.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FreeTube also is based on Invidious instances, changing the instance may work, but better to set the SMplayer as extern player, then you can open the Video in this player which works almost always.

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for the tip. Hopefully that'll fix the issues I've been having.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, if you find a workng Invidious instance it's ok, but if not, FreeTube without SMplayer is useless.

[–] llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Really? It's been working just fine for me.