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.
Nope. As a longtime user of FreeTube, breakages like this is entirely normal. Give it some time and the devs will find a fix.
For what its worth, I usually rely on Invidious when Freetube breaks. So whenever Freetube breaks, try seeing if Invidious works. As a last resort, you can always use mpv + ytdlp.
I’m using it as a way to keep track of channels I like, after I find something interesting, the actual playback is handled by
yt-dlp+mpv. Because I always buildyt-dlpfrom source, it is pretty much never broken for me.Hooray to the relentless open source devs beating Google’s puzzle games mere hours after they are released!
The new update has a new problem. If your IP or VPN Server is marked you cannot watch anything because youtube will show the stupid reCaptcha page and Freetube can’t bypass it.
Reporting in using newpipe, and its fine.
The devs just released a new version that fixed the issue. When use Freetube, you have to be ready for Google fucking everything up and then the Freetube devs working to fix it.
It’s literally a game of cat and mouse.
On a slightly related side note. I would hazard a guest that people who use Freetube, Invidious, Newpipe, etc make up like at most 5% of people who use Youtube. I am being very generous with the 5%. Google will do anything to make sure that they maximize profits.
flathub update when 😔
it’s here!
🥳
My thoughts exactly, FreeTube devs are the GOAT.
Naw, that’s just Alphabet being a fucking removed, what happens regularly. Freetube and Newpipe are always being patched to circumvent some new shit in YouTube’s code.
Youtube regularly makes changes that break third party apps/clients/frontends.
Give it a couple days, the devs will catch up and fix the issues/incompatibility.
Nah, FreeTube breaks pretty regularly.
It will most likely be fixed in the next release.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.
This happens every now and then. I have been following the progress on their repo and it seems the SABR request loop has already been merged.
When one falls, another takes its place. Check out VacuumTube. It uses the official YouTube Leanback interface with adblock, sponsorblock, etc.
That said, I’m sure FreeTube will probably be able to fix whatever you’re going through, assuming it isn’t Google rate-limiting or blocking you outright.
thank you, seems like there’s no offline subscriptions but this is better than nothing.
i can just check the subscriptions from freetube for now i guess, unless that breaks too
hopefully freetube gets fixed soon! i really miss it already
edit:
:(
Oh wow this is exactly what I wished existed. A standard TV experience without ads.
This happens occasionally and have to be patient for a fix to come out. Sometimes takes a week or longer. During those times I just use freetube as a rss feed and use it to open videos on Firefox.
Pretty crazy amount of plugins I need to make default youtube palatable though like sponsorblock, dearrow, and blocktube. Freetube just simplifies it when it works.
I use yt-dlp. It also works with other sites, not just yt.
Every so often G does sth to break it. But not very often. It works more of the time, than any other thing I tried so far.
This reminds me, I need to set up yt-dlp
I don t care , i use odysee
