Looks like Youtube is fucking things up again, @newpipe
Just press repeat a few times and it works.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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Refreshing a couple times does the job until next patch comes out
This time they started blocking both residential IP addresses and VPNs to discourage yt-dlp, NewPipe etc. From what I noticed, you need to use official website to load cookies and maintain that session to continue watching videos. It's irritating. I hope they fuck themselves and go out of business.
But if they are blocking residential IPs, how can I watch my Video on normal youtube? Or are the just gonna fuck everyone because a few people are using things such as newpipe?
They block 3rd party tools like yt-dlp, NewPipe etc from residential IP addresses. Probably they deployed solutions to differentiate normal YouTube session on their website and automated tools.
It's not because of normal users, it's because of AI companies. Whatever open tools are developed to circumvent tracking are immediately also being used to suck up all data for training material.
These companies use residential proxies to circumvent normal scraping detection. False positives are collateral damage to them.
Yeah happened to me too
@biancotitanio @newpipe They are doing their best 😐
My approach is to open in duckduckgo browser, using its yt player.
Wipe cached metadata in settings will at least temporarily fix the error.
Can't even open 18+ videos (which is a bummer cuz some are marked 18+ for stupid reason)
That's because the moral outrage idiots out there throw a bitch fit even they see blood or hear swearing, which makes the idiots wasting money pushing ads touchy. Meanwhile everyone smart enough to go to the minor effort to block the ads have to suffer.
I know. The problem is that NewPipe says it can't open the video due to Youtube TOS or something, which makes it loom like they're not gonna fix it. And that's a load of crap.