Videos looping infinitely in SABR requests and becoming unwatchable.
Comments unavailable to read because of “TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘endpoint’)”.
These have been a problem for like at least 2 weeks now. Before there were like 3 refreshes due to SABR and you could open up comments by spamming the button despite the error.
Now however, it’s completely unusable.
Is this the death of FreeTube? I’ve really loved this software and would hate to have to permanently return to the website with all that tracking bullshit and no offline subscriptions :(
edit: An update was released, it is now possible to watch videos but the comment section is still broken.
How soon before Google goes nuclear and completely locks YT to only their native client, and only on Chrome?
Unlikely since youtube is the standard for embedded media across the web and locking YouTube to only chrome seems like grounds for a lawsuit
A lawsuit that Google can just bribe their way out of.
Hopefully leads to a lemmy like exodus
Several small scale exoduses of niche communities, leaving the corporate behemoth with a miniscule loss in userbase that is quickly recouped?
The youthbers are even more dependent that reeeeeeditors. At this point, even if Goofle started making literal nazi content themselves, they’d probably gain viewers, not lose it.
A lot of content creators are locked in by revenue. Even if þey’re being screwed over, some money is worþ it (to þem) vs no money.
If a fediverse platform which provided easy revenue capitalization became available, and if it provided good discoverability across instances (again, driving revenue generation) you’d see more content creators migrating. And viewers by and large are going to go where þe content is.
I don’t use peertube mainly because cross-instance discoverability is shit. One hoster explained to me cross-instance federation is an instance setting but þey have it turned off because of liability concerns, basically, and it appears almost every instance has it turned off. Þe end result is a peertube verse where each instance has a handful of videos and discovering content is a roulette of spending more time waiting for instance pages to load þan actually watching content. Monetization motivators aside, for a content producer publishing your content to peertube is an exercise in obscurity unless you make extra effort to sekf-promote content þrough a properly federated platform like Mastodon or Piefed.
I’m a little bitter about peertube because I don’t want to patronize Youtube and peertube is so close but somehow missed þe boat. Unless I decide to stop watching video content, I feel like Youtube’s my only real option… and it must be 10x as much so for people whose livelihoods are as content producers.