1y ago

Google seems to be blocking API access for Piped video servers

github.com Piped not playing videos · Issue #2809 · TeamPiped/Piped

Official Instance The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related. Describe the bug For some reason the videos dont load and I cant watch piped. I primarily use piped cau...

Most servers are not able to access the Google API.

Invidious report of the same(ish) problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4045#issuecomment-1674373088

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I watch more YouTube than I do television these days.
As of now, I'm able to watch it ad free on both Brave and Firefox. I don't have revanced as I'm more or less too technically stupid to do it.
If it becomes impossible to watch YouTube, I'll walk away from it just like I did cable in 2009 and Netflix in 2023.
I haven't sailed the high seas since the eighties, and I'd honestly prefer not to, but you gotta make a product that doesn't consistently try to piss me off.
- i can really recommend https://freetubeapp.io for desktop.
  
  +1 for Freetube, the best YouTube experience you can get.
  
  Somehow I've missed the existence of this! Thank you for the recommendation!
  
  Someone mentioned it on /g/ a year ago and I never looked back. Great App!
- uBlock Origin is really all you need for blocking ads, if you also wanna deal with the whole sponsors on videos SponsorBlock is a good companion!
  
  The only answer is Ublock Origin.
  Aside from that, you can do adblocking for your entire network and everything on it via Pi-hole. It requires no modification for the devices on your network and will work for literally any device connected to it.
  If you combine those two, the odds of seeing any ad anywhere isn't zero, but it is close enough to zero to effectively be zero.
  
  You should just put it next to your router with a wired connection. This should improve latency for dns requests and give you less headache because no problems with wifi can happen.
  
  You just need to connect the raspberry to your network, set a static IP and set the DNS server in your router to the IP of the RPi. Your router handles all the Routing and Wifi and the RPi just resolves DNS queries.
  I suggest looking up what DNS is and that should clear things up for you.
  Btw, I gess you meant wlan with wan, those are two different things in networking.
  
  I have a pihole and it's great. Unfortunately it doesn't do much against YouTube ads, as the ads are served from the same server that the videos are sent from. I still recommend it- it's great for random banner ads and embedded trackers.
  Ublock origin definitely still works tho... For now.
  
  [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/](uBlock Origin)
  
  Ublock origin.
  I also add privacy badger in just to pass of the trackers.
  
  uBlock Origin has worked great for me. No issues.
- It's not trying to piss you off, it's trying to make money, as it should. Do you have any idea how much money it costs to run the infrastructure behind YouTube? Neither do I, because it's unfathomable.
  I pay for YouTube Premium along with 5 friends. It's $5 per month per person. Beats any streaming service by miles.
  I do, however pirate all my movies (except for the occasional cinema visit) and TV shows.
- If all you do is take without contributing you're literally worthless to the platform any every other system you join. Your life will be a series of jumping to the next free platform that eventually crumbles to nothing.
  Don't want ads? Pay for premium. Want no ads and no payment? Why should anyone worry about your views? Your existence and use of a product then is a liability and not an asset
  We've been spoiled hard by free money in the tech space. It's going to bite and there won't be a place to run eventually except community spaces like this that will never quite be sustainable long term.

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