God I hope not, imma go check.
Edit: NewPipe still works.
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First thing I did when I read this. Works for me too. I'll have to check Invidious later.
NewPipe seems to work fine for me
LibreTube suddenly was really laggy on all instances, but the instances on browser are fine. I'm using NewPipe/Clipious for the time being.
Same with me, hope i can return soon enough.
Have you tried enabling HLS in "Audio and video"? It solved the issue for me (using the official instance).
Just worked for me! Lemmy is the best!
https://piped.video is working fine now, including subscriptions listing (it even shows some privated videos!) and playing a video
It just loads indefinitely for me. I've tried multiple instances and I get the same result
Same here. Piped hasn’t worked for since June and even then it was shaky.
Interesting. For me it has been working fine the last months. Loads and plays now, tested 30 seconds ago.
Yes as of writing this, the instance works fine. But that’s what I’m saying, within an hour it’ll be down, or just show the thumbnails but not actually load videos.
The takehome is Google isn’t going to let Piped exist. And constantly does things to interfere which Piped can only do so much to bypass it all.
Mmh. They do so much silly stuff nowadays with the ad-blocker detection, handling browsers differently and people from different countries and all the magic that chooses your data rate and quality... I'm not surprised that it's a different experience for everyone. Hope they don't take third party frontends away from us for good. (I'd be also happy if every creator switches to a better alternative. But I don't see that happen any time soon.)
I use FreeTube which seems to still work fine but it seems to me like the browser plugin that opens YouTube links in FreeTube does not work properly sometimes
I've just started using freetube. I've noticed short periods of very low quality stream once in a while. Not sure if the periods match Ad time, tho. Do you experience those low Q periods?
I usually just switch it from auto to 1080p or whatever is available and that fixes it 90% of the time, sometimes it takes a second or 2 to fix the quality though.
I might but I am not sure. My internet speed is often a bit unreliable so if I had a drop in quality or issues with buffering I ´just attributed it to that.
I think Smart Tube Next has never failed on me, I use the beta version and update it regularly (or not) so well, maybe that helps.
Not 100% sure but I am seeing a lot more feeds not loading errors on newpipe
I'm still using the original Vanced
*Touches wood
My version of Vanced borked so i updated to revanced, seems pretty much the same to me.
GrayJay is still working.
That's ~~proprietary~~ non-libre so not an option unfortunately
Edit: Fixed technicality
It's open source, you just can't fork it.
Edit, I'll rephrase that. You can fork it and do whatever, even remove the "please donate" thing, but if you distribute any spy/malware versions they have legal avenues to force it to get taken down.
That's not open source, it's source-available
Sounds more like open source but not free software?
As confusing as it is, if you're to follow the generally accepted definition from the Open Source Initiative, "open-source" doesn't just mean open source code, but also openness to modification and redistribution - what you called free, others call libre, etc. Just having an open source code, they call "source available".
It annoys me to no end, but it is what it is...
That's not a free software license though. Libre software must give you the right to run, study, modify and distribute the code. It doesn't do that to my knowledge.
Correct it does not technically fit into FOSS, however the source code is still open for review, allowing you to run, study and modify the code. The only restriction is distribution.
If your personal model is to strictly use FOSS, then this program is not for you.
However, if your model is more about the ability to make personal modification, or to study the code to verify it is not malicious or spying, then this program allows for that.
It is also worth noting this program isn't technically free (money), but there are no checks if you actually paid. It's up to you and your own morals to pay or not. For me, I consider it no different than an obnoxious "buy me a coffee" button - if it bugs you that much, go delete it from the code you run.
Exactly, I don't want software that doesn't respect the 4 freedoms. It makes forks impossible and still gives the developer unjustified power.
TBH it's not proprietary either. I'm OK with such licensing because it helps the developers fuck the clowns over who try to take their code without even a thanks. The source is available to audit if you'd like. That's what I really care about.
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NewPipe and the fork Pipe pipe have been working working on my android. Can't say anything on the piped or invidious side of things since I don't watch videos on browser if I can avoid it.
FreeTube.
I guess the migration to PeerTube is waiting to happen.
Honestly the third party clients should allow users to upload content and comment
They don't? That's lame.
Grayjay, Newpipe and Freetube all still work
NewPipe is working just fine on my Galaxy S10e
Until now, YT videos works flawless in SMplayer and MotionBox Browser, the last one is IMHO the best desktop client for nearly all streaming platforms, only drawback is a bad and not very intuitive UI.
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