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YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

YouTube started throwing playback errors for me this last week on pc (Firefox with ublock and pihole).

I was able to get around it by opening links in a container tab without being signed in. New container for each link

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Just use front ends if you don't care about interacting with the content. It has been a few years since I am used to using them and I dread being forced to go back to youtube again.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is this happening to any user in the EU?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Why?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yup it just started doing it to me, AdBlock on firefox. whelp I'll just download them.. https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can also just play them directly with MPV or VLC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just tried that and it's not working for me. MPV just closes itself and VLC gives me an error message. Do I need to do more that just drag and drop the URL?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For VLC you need to go to Media > Open Network Stream (or Ctrl+N), then paste the youtube link there.

For MPV use command line mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videocode

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (9 children)

VLC still gives me the same error message.

For MPV, it gives me the following error message:

`mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e9_l2oGxdw [ytdl_hook] ERROR: [youtube] 3e9_l2oGxdw: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred Failed to recognize file format.

Exiting... (Errors when loading file) `

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=3e9_l2oGxdw

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can download YouTube videos via yt-dlp and add them to a jellyfin server. If you'd want to watch them without ads and off of Google.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah but I don’t really want to keep the videos. Need one of these alternative sites to hurry up and take off

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've been looking into tube archivist actually. Want to get it set up soon and try it out.

Auto downloads, direct to Jellyfin, rules set up to delete them afterwards

https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd imagine there would be a way to automatically delete the file if you've watched a certain percentage and it's been a certain amount of time.

IDK, I'm not a programmer.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For a while, I've had problems with a patched yt app. Been going on for probably months at this point, but even with the latest ReVanced patches I still end up with, if lucky, video plays for 10 seconds before infinite loading. Makes me have to use the PipePipe (NewPipe fork) app more than I want, but at least I get ad free videos.

I'd use a privacy respecting frontend, but sometimes I like to comment and I have yet to find one that allows me to login and comment on videos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’d use a privacy respecting frontend, but sometimes I like to comment and I have yet to find one that allows me to login and comment on videos.

I'm not interested in commenting, but I do want to keep track of my history (across multiple devices). I wish there were a privacy-respecting solution that could do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://grayjay.app/

By Louis Rossman's startup "Futo". I have a lot of respect for that dude from his right-to-repair activism, but despite that it's just a good privacy-respecting video app and worth paying for, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Use Youtube frontends. Here is Privacy Guides' page about Youtube frontends. All of Youtube's BS will disappear.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Yep, they suddenly started doing that early this morning after several hours of playing videos just fine.

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