Has NewPipe v0.27.0 stopped working for anyone else? It won't play anymore. It loads the video page and comments, but throws an error when attempting to play or download the video. I've submitted an error report, but was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this.

Edit: thank you, everyone! I figured it was google being a giant turd again, but want sure, since it worked perfectly fine for me yesterday, and I didn't see anything pop up on Lemmy yet. I understand the logistical and costing nightmare of this, but we really need a FOSS decentralized video sharing platform to take hold and take off. Let google and other bigturdtech die where they made their beds.

Update: newpipe 0.27.1 was just released, which fixes this deliberately google-caused issue. As I understand, some other frontends implemented their own fixes, too. These teams are amazing!

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[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

PipePipe works for me now with 3.5.0.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not in fdroid, yet. Hopefully soon! Thanks!

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No it's not. I only found it when I opened PipePipe and it popped up there's a new update. Installed it outside of fdroid

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Ah ok cool. I'm glad they have that option.

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

we really need a FOSS decentralized video sharing platform to take hold

I'd love for that to happen, but without being paid by a central company, content creators won't...create content. Will it work with content creators own sponsors? Mmm...I don't know

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Early YouTube was exactly this, though. Content creators creating for the sake of the content. Sponsors helped a lot, sure, but the vast majority did it without them. Also, current YouTube, many content creators don't or can't monetize. They still create.

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you're right. Are we able to go back? I mean, do they want to go back from being paid to almost nothing? And if I'm not mistaken, professional YouTubers produce a quality of videos that didn't exist back in the days.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lemmy is a good case study, I would say. Reddit was the epitome of "the front page", until it wasn't. Then many moved to Lemmy, and it was just ok for a while. Now it's getting to where Reddit was before it lost its shite. Not a perfect comparison due to the YouTube monetization, I know, but a good rags->riches->enshitified->rags->riches story. And production quality is much less important, IMO, than content. And, yes, content did increase over the years, but a part of that was video editing technology improvement. Let's take LTT as an example. Before monetization, they had low production quality, but incredible content value videos. Now, the production value (and their paychecks) improved a lot, but the content value isn't what it used to be. It's not bad, it's just less focused on what it used to be. Is that bad? Probably not. But it also means we can start over, and get to the same monetization that we're at now, but without enshitification.

Edit: and I'm not even touching "influencers" in the main comment, who, IMO, don't matter in the grand scheme. They can stay on yt or disappear completely. In fact, if they did disappear, it would make a significant positive impact to the overall content library.

[–] intothesky@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does someone know why Grayjay works perfectly?

[–] denshirenji@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I don't believe they don't use the YouTube API. So the changes Google might make wouldn't necessarily affect Grayjay.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Where else should I publish videos as well as youtube?

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 9 points 10 months ago

Not entirely sure. I would say PeerTube, maybe? There are others, like Odysee, but they tend to have interesting communities (to stay within rules of conduct). But YouTube was similar in its early days, too, so :shrug:

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My recommendation is PeerTube.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Edit: replied to the wrong comment. Sorry, mate. Moved it to the right chain.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup, Google are launching their yearly attempt to convince folks YouTube premium is worth it.

Think of this time not as an annoyance, but as a time to reflect on how shitty Google has become.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 16 points 10 months ago

Lol I don't need this to remind me. I already know and think of it (regrettably) often.

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Most Piped instances are also not working because they use NewPipe Extractor under the hood.

As someone else said in this thread, I have also temporarily switched to FreeTube for Android, because a few of the Invidious instances are still working fine.

The nice thing about the FOSS world is that it's pretty easy to import subscriptions and other stuff from NewPipe to FreeTube.

I hope this YouTube fuckery is handled soon. I love NewPipe way more every time it successfully deals with the YT weirdos.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yo! Grayjay still works!

https://grayjay.app/

Edit: I didn't realize people were so sensitive about alternative options. I'm not a NewPipe developer, so I can't fix it, but I have confirmed that as of right now it isn't working.

Use whatever app works for you, IDGAF

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't have any opinion on grayjay but this is the open source community and grayjay is proprietary. That's the only reason I downvoted your comment

Feel free to use it if it works for you but I think it's poor form to advertise proprietary products in a thread about a free software project.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Their source code is available online silly. You can recompile it however you want, you just can't redistribute it.

https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android

Edit: They also now have an F-Droid repository.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@over_clox Which means it's not open-source, silly, because open-source explicitly means you can redistribute it.

[+] over_clox@lemmy.world -6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh bitch bitch. So what? Is your only interest in taking their code and trying to profit from it?

Fucking hell, folks told me it would never show up on F-Droid for such nitpicky terms, but they got their own repository now.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@over_clox The lack of redistribution is what's causing projects to disappear and die, vendor lock-in, walled gardens, bricked devices.. you clearly have no idea what you are talking about

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm just gonna drop this link here, make of it and FUTO in general whatever you will. They actually are privacy centric..

https://youtube.com/live/OJPmbcU-Vzo

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"Privacy centric" is irrelevant because because this is the free software movement, not the privacy movement (also, this is not reddit, we have a higher standard of conduct here).

Further reading on free software philosophy. Most relevant is why software should not have owners (1994) as this is fundamentally where FUTO disagrees with the open source/free software movement.

I also made a prior comment here about the fundamental difference between "fauxpen source" licenses like FUTO's and real FOSS licenses. You seem to characterize it as "stealing code and profiting off it" but the strength of free software is in collaboration and community, not so much competition, so sharing is considered a virtue here. I talked more about it here in a reddit comment referencing my previous lemmy comment.

This will probably be my last comment on FUTO/Grayjay in this thread, since I've said all I intend to say several times here and on reddit. I might make a master post about the problems of fauxpen source at some point.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Interesting to learn some finer grained details of the scene.

I do actually have my own graphics software projects like halfway open source, but I could only bring myself to share the backend color coding algorithms.

I can't bring myself to share the frontend GUI code, as it has to work around many bugs of the language its coded in (RapidQ), and I really ain't got time to try to explain all the weird fixes to make it work mostly right.

Anyways, the last version of my project was Color Painter 1.5B

https://tinyurl.com/colorpainter15b

I have my own simple license that basically says have fun, do whatever you want, but only for free private personal usage.

But that was back in 2017, I had no idea that AI systems were about to take over the scene.

So now I'm like fuckit.

I just don't share the GUI code because I had to pull so many jankery tricks that nobody would really understand, partly to fix bugs in the language and partly to remap keyboard shortcuts.

These days, it hardly matters. If you're interested in my old project, just hit me up.

I'm all about free software, but I have my reasons for not tending to share all my code to everyone. It's rather confusing.

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It casts?! I'm sold!

But I'm not sure how i feel about downloading an apk like that.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Hey, it's a damn fine app, but at the same time don't take my word on it..

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KaoKSvd2mYo

[–] sag@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I am tired of big company bullshit. I don't care anymore. YouTube was the only big brother service which I can't replace but now I don't give a single fuck.(They IP blocked me on their official site)

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You used a VPN... Right?

[–] sag@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Nope, Now I use VPN if I have to watch something Goddamn I didn't have static IP.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They IP blocked me on their official site

So,... What did you do?

[–] sag@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Just watch on their website without account. That's all.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Damn, same here. I copied the error report, YouTube is apparently being fucky again...

Exception

User Action: play stream
Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
Content Country: US
Content Language: en-US
App Language: en_US
Service: YouTube
Version: 0.27.0
OS: Linux motorola/lake_revvl_n/lake_n:10/QPW30.142-Q3-28-25/4cbcf:user/release-keys 10 - 29

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:241)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)

[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a link to the main tracking issue with NewPipe? I tried to look through their GitHub repo, but most of the issues I saw were about the 59-second bug, or they had been closed as duplicate without linking to the duplicate issue.

I have a 1.5 hour commute, and watching downloaded videos on NewPipe is a major part of my strategy for getting through it.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11139

[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago

I don't think that's the right issue. The behavior I see is a network error toast message that says check the notification for details (with no notification). This issue says the behavior is the "content unavailable" screen, which I don't see.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Piped and Yewtu.be as well.

[–] scott@lem.free.as 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My local Piped instance still works.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 10 months ago

That's good. Maybe there will be a fix soon.

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