I really hope the answer is “yes,” but gosh-darned if I can find one. The FreeTube app still works as long as my VPN is off, but as for Invidious . . . (also, sorry if this has already been covered earlier).
EDIT: Ok, well now it looks like I can get FreeTube to work with some Mullvad locations but not others . . .
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My piped instance is still working https://piped.gravitywell.xyz
My self hosted instance works great
yt-dlp works, magic-tape works, too, if you don’t mind terminal interface.
a command line yt client, hell yes.
No. You could however run your own instance for yourself
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment-2365205990
Hello,
Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality.
Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won’t work anymore. (Some datacenter IPs may still work, but that’s a matter of time until they don’t anymore.)
If you are interested to install Invidious at home, we remind you that we have a guide for that here: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/.
This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably.
I have updated the public instance list in order to reflect on the working public instances: https://instances.invidious.io/. Please don’t abuse them since the number is really low.
Feel free to discuss this politely on Matrix or IRC.
I’ve been trying for weeks. Sometimes, using a random IP address with Proton VPN works for a few hours, but eventually, Freetube (or YouTube) seems to catch on and shuts me down. Gravitywell mentioned a piped instance, which was great but only worked for a minute or two for me. I think the days of being anonymous on YouTube are over—time to move on if privacy is important to you.
It’s gotten to a point where I get “Sign-In to confirm you’re not a bot” on my residential ip(s).
Which I won’t, therefore no yt for me.
Luckily I’ve got better and more entertaining things to do.
What works for me is freetube on desktop, and tubular/newpipe on AOSP.
Ups, I just got to enjoy piped and in particular pipeline on gnu+linux and libretube on AOSP.
Pipeline in particular allows to totally avoid electron (freetube), and in both cases the piped instance is the one communicating with youtube, not me, :) And both applications support sponsorblock (tubular does, but newpipe doesn’t). But not talking directly to youtube is a win. Did I mention dropping another electron app, :) ?
But… I installed pipeline from AUR, because I don’t like flatpak… Not sure if other user repos offer it as well…
Not really at this point
Yes. Sending it now by PM to not make things too easy for YouTube. Even it requires a few tries, though.
Freetube on desktop, NewPipe on smartphone. And I have no problems with VPNs on both devices!
I’ve been using Grayjay and it seems to be a good front end for YouTube.
Self-hosted piped/invidious still working great if you want to follow this route. Everything from no-ads/sponsor block/comments works without any issues.
One downside however, is that you’re exposing your own public IP to Google/YouTube :/.
YouTube has blocked a bunch of IP ranges, including residential ones, forcing people to use an account to watch videos. So self-hosting isn’t an option for everyone.
Oho? Didn’t knew that. Thanks for the info ! Do you know what caused the residential IP block ?
- Outside of EU?
- To much API calls from the same source?
- Something else?
I mean, I don’t see way they would block residential IPs with normal api calls from the same source. Or are they full enforcing the account thing on everyone?
I don’t know. My ISP doesn’t know. And I won’t bother interacting with Google’s non-existing support.
My solution is moving away from YouTube whenever possible, for instance subscripting to podcast instead when a creator has a podcast with the same content.
Luckily most casts are just an RSS feed so you do not need an special tooling. It is a real shame many are putting their content behind walls like Spotify.
Yes, but many YouTube channels don’t have a RSS podcast equivalent. YouTube is somewhat of a walled garden, like Spotify is.
Is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id no longer working?
No. This is no help if YouTube blocks your IP range. And it’s not a podcast feed.
I use freetube and grayjay
I’d like to know if any of these frontends work with Mullvad VPN, because all the Mullvad servers I’ve tried have been blocked. Even on youtube.com I’m getting throttled to the point where all videos are 360p. Ridiculous, but I’m not turning my VPN off just for YouTube videos.
For me it usually works to change server/country if a video is not working. Sometimes it takes 2-3 tries, and it is annoying.
Yeah, same here! I have to turn off Mullvad when watching FreeTube which is definitely annoying.
Yeah, I was also using FreeTube when Mullvad got blocked. Mullvad’s South African servers worked for me for a while but they’re now blocked too, and I’ve tried a bunch of countries and all blocked. Annoyingly even yt-dlp is blocked with Mullvad on now, so I can’t even use that to watch YouTube.
I don’t think so, YouTube’s new method for blocking third party clients seems to be difficult to work around. I have the Linux version of the NewPipe app and that seems to be working but I don’t use VPNs, so I don’t know if that would work for you.
NewPipe works for me on Android
It stopped working for me recently. It’ll play the first 5 seconds or so of the video and then just freeze up.
I use invidious to search, copy the link, and use yt-dlp to download the video. You can get 1080p that way. If I wasn’t lazy, I would write a script
