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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago

Best optimized for Firefox. Nice move ngl.

[–] scorp@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what's thr point of new shiny youtube clients if they're all dependent on a single method/backend ?

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] w00t@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Seems like it doesn't work as of today

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably because its rusty

[–] w00t@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago
[–] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Youtube have been cracking down on all sort of third party clients lately.

[–] w00t@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

NewPipe and Freetube are working fine tho

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@TwinTusks @w00t

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).

[–] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 1 points 2 months ago

Interesting, but I been having issues with frontends for days now,

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@MigratingtoLemmy Yesterday I saw a broken embedded video on LinkedIn so.....

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh well. Thanks for correcting me. I guess they're trying to play hard

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm heading over to Odyssey/Peertube the second they tell me to sign in to watch videos.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 2 points 2 months ago

@w00t @sag

This fixed the problem for invidious, maybe RustyTube needs something similar https://github.com/iv-org/inv_sig_helper

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

RustyTrombone: An unusual musical instrument. (Urban Dictionary)