Newpipe hasn’t worked on my Android for several days now. Has YouTube blocked the app, or did an update break it?

  • kbin_space_program@kbin.run
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    5 months ago

    TL;DR from their(newpipe’s) reddit:
    Youtube did an update that added an additonal parameter to the calls, allegedly as an anti-bot tactic.

    Because of how it worked, it broke all of the various frontends, but Invidious based access still worked.

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I’ve had this problem too but the latest upgrade just fixed it. And yeah, I think it was Google’s doing and it’s not the first time, it’s a constant arm’s race between them and Newpipe programmers. And Ublock programmers. And Invidious and Piped programmers etc…

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    They’ve decided to step up the arms race because they’ve hit peak daily user count and the only thing they can promise to the board is force increasing premium memberships. I take it channel “memberships” are also not hitting the numbers they would like and they haven’t destroyed Nebula or Patreon as they’d hoped.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldOP
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      I will never pay for YouTube. The most they’d do is force me to stop using it. I’d be fine using the mobile site, but they’ve gone and intentionally broke that too. I mean, it works, but it’s buggy as shit.

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      5 months ago

      One thing about capitalism: companies are never done extracting higher profits. Doesn’t matter if users pay for YouTube or whatever, Google will want to increase profits next year anyway.

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      5 months ago

      You can also use FreeTube for Android, or Grayjay.

      Both of them weren’t affected by the latest YouTube change.

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      5 months ago

      I mean mine’s still freezes mid video from time to time, but that was a problem before 0.27.0 broke.

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      5 months ago

      Unfortunately proprietary and filled with Google trackers (Revanced is FOSS, but it uses the proprietary YouTube app)

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    It’s working great again.

    I reinstalled a few times the first couple days, but I must have done it just before the fix came out two days ago.

    You can export your history and then import it after the reinstall.

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    Should be working again? Tubular at least already had an update and I’m pretty sure that would’ve come from NewPipe mainline.