I watch YouTube through newpipe, and recently tried pipepipe too. They work great, but lately I have been blocked on several occasions with a message that either says “content unavailable” or “your IP has been blocked by YouTube”. I usually use a VPN which has helped but tried it today and still got this message :/
Finally changing the location on the VPN seemed to work. But seriously wtf is going on?
VPNs work since they seem to be experimenting regionally, especially where they have less competition + more public-private partnership
YouTube being YouTube. It’s aggressive enough that I occasionally get blocked even with a residential IP address.
I get this all the time when I download too much stuff with yt-dlp. I just unplug/plug my router and get a new IP.
I can’t get yt-dlp to work any more, it errors out all the time.
they block you because you use an alternative client
Happening quite a bit lately, apparently they are trying to detect third-party clients and block suspicious IPs for up to several hours. This also goes for Invidious et al.
Take a look at this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/36966537
I’ve had this on freetube on desktop happen constantly over the last few months. Seems to happen after watching a certain time length on YouTube and then blocks me from watching on freetube or using YouTube embedded. It tends to come back for me after a few hours. All its made me to is cut back on my youtube subscriptions and watching by nearly 90%
Tampermonkey (Firefox extension) has a Youtube Tools script that still works for downloading.
For those who care… Often unplugging your modem for 24h will refresh your IP
E you people are angry and weird and not that bright actually
I suppose that works, but that’s quite drastic just to watch YT.
Hold on babe. Let’s wait 24 hours for me to show you that 2 minute meme
I’m not suggesting it as a solution as you can see from my original text, it’s just a fun fact.
This group is “DeGoogle Yourself”, and people are talking about needing to watch YT?! Interesting. It’s not degoogle for sure, but hey… :-)
How about starting to make it worthwhile to use other sites than googles? I mean - go to an alternative, start following some content you like, or make your own.
It’s pretty sad, especially in a group like this, to talk about your addiction and how you can’t degoogle.
Works fine in spain
