what's thr point of new shiny youtube clients if they're all dependent on a single method/backend ?
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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To say it was written in Rust & make it someone’s portfolio piece so they can use a Microsoft GitHub link on their Microsoft LinkedIn profile.
RustyTrombone: An unusual musical instrument. (Urban Dictionary)
Wut. If you want an alt YT client, you need the opposite of rusty. You need to update it every week to fight the constant cat and mouse game
Seems like it doesn't work as of today
This fixed the problem for invidious, maybe RustyTube needs something similar https://github.com/iv-org/inv_sig_helper
Youtube have been cracking down on all sort of third party clients lately.
They're locking down on IPs which consume traffic like a bot/ alternate distribution platforms like Invidious instances. AFAIK the softwares itself isn't blocked. Please try and correct everyone you see on this forum who says otherwise
@MigratingtoLemmy you are wrong though. They are adding tokens and signatures, without them the videos aren't playing. But I just updated my invidious and it's playing fine again => it's not an IP block (yet), it is a change in the youtube media api, so the players need to be changed too = effectively a player block.
TBH unless this is a coordinated effort against Invidious and other apps or should affect a lot of other things too. Or does this change not affect embedded media in pages?
@MigratingtoLemmy Yesterday I saw a broken embedded video on LinkedIn so.....
Oh well. Thanks for correcting me. I guess they're trying to play hard
@MigratingtoLemmy Yup, there are even some similarities from the Twitter/Nitter fight - tracking tokens, IP blocks, API limits, ... Get ready for youtube requiring login to watch videos.
I'm heading over to Odyssey/Peertube the second they tell me to sign in to watch videos.
NewPipe and Freetube are working fine tho
Looks like yesterday Youtube simply stopped serving the format 22 (ytdl -f22, IIRC that was 480p video+audio) on all videos, so now anything that had this format selected as default is failing (@invidious). -f18 is still there (360p).
Interesting, but I been having issues with frontends for days now,
Best optimized for Firefox. Nice move ngl.