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).
Yes. Sending it now by PM to not make things too easy for YouTube. Even it requires a few tries, though.
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
Is there a good guide to self host?
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’ve been using Grayjay and it seems to be a good front end for YouTube.
yt-dlp works, magic-tape works, too, if you don’t mind terminal interface.
a command line yt client, hell yes.
Freetube on desktop, NewPipe on smartphone. And I have no problems with VPNs on both devices!
My piped instance is still working https://piped.gravitywell.xyz/
My self hosted instance works great
The below website provides the answer to your question: https://redirect.invidious.io/
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…
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.
Not really at this point
I use freetube and grayjay
