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Freetube, Invidious, Pipepipe can't get video listings... YouTube shenanigans? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 months ago by quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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had anyone else noticed YouTube front end apps/sites unable to get updated lists of videos or any lists at all? I haven't checked all the symptoms to be able to guess the root cause.

i assume YouTube itself hasn't gone down. are they blocking front ends again, maybe in a new way?

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Quick "fix" is to enable Fast Mode for the feed, at least in Newpipe/Pipepipe.

Pipepipe: Settings > Feed > Fetch from dedicated feed when available.

#FuckGoogle

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

it still can only fetch a few channels. something weird is afoot

[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

thank you! a true friend!

#FuckGoogle

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

I have this problem too.

[–] cristorf@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

On freetube going into setting->subscriptions and enabling fetch feeds from RSS has fixed it for me.

[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh of course! thank you fam!

[–] cristorf@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

No worries. I'm sure they'll have a fix soon, those guys are always quick to unfuck whatever youtube tries to break haha

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

That worked last night/this morning, but it looks like Google managed to break that for now, too

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

It's been down for 2 days for me. The githib page says they know about it.

A technical work around would just be using your regular browser, and sending the link to your client :(

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Freetube on Fedora seldom works for me.

Pipepipe generally works better but a couple of days ago my "what's new" page was blank. Channel pages still show the videos. I added all the channels' rss feeds to my rss reader so I can still get notified of new videos.

[–] Noodles4dinner@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Was wondering about this, i have seen similar before and it usually gets fixed on the next update. Hopefully anyway.

[–] caos@anonsys.net 2 points 3 months ago

@quickenparalysespunk in #Freetube I use this workaround: Settings > Subscription > Fetch feeds from RSS

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well, that fix for PipiPipe didn't last long.

[–] pr3d@eviltoast.org 0 points 4 months ago

#FuckGoogle We need more Peertube uploads/mirrors ✊