3w ago

Freetube `[BAD_HTTP_STATUS: 403] Potential causes: IP block or streaming URL deciphering failed` is fixed

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If you use Freetube, you haven't failed to notice that Google is on the war path again and broke it a few days ago. See this bug report.

Please note that it's been fixed in this PR. If you download the nightly build #5652, it now works like a champ.

Thanks team Freetube!

3w ago

Freetube [BAD_HTTP_STATUS: 403] Potential causes: IP block or streaming URL deciphering failed is fixed

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Man it's been a long few days, glad they finally have a fix for it
- If this happens again (which is very likely, I fear):
  I've been downloading videos with
  https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter (yt-dlp gui)
  and watching them with mpv. Still looking for a Tube-Archivist/Pinchflat stlye app that doesn't download the whole channel (or makes me paste single URLs) but has a nice Freetube-like interface for downloading and watching offline ...

Wow, code formatting in the title? Go Lemmy
- Markup applies to titles in Lemmy. But be aware that titles are displayed raw above comments so don't go too crazy with it, so your titles display okay raw too 🙂

- All the invidious instances I've tried either don't work ~~or their API is disabled~~ - Sorry I didn't see "through your browser".
  Not all invidious instances work. A lot of them have been hit by Youtube. But NewPipe still works - until it gets targeted too I guess. It's a game of cat and mouse with Google - and it's fucking tiring.
  
  Still less tiring than having to deal with a bunch of ads/other bullshit that google pushes.

Why do freetube and new pipe break at different moments in time ? Iirc, it first started for new pipe, then for a little while with pipepipe, and it's freetubes turn.
- Google clearly has the ability to break any and all third party client at any time.
  My theory is that they're conducting random campaigns of working-but-not-all-the-time on this or that client at different times to grind everybody down and force them to comply through shear exhaustion. Because if they banned all 3rd party client outright, it would negatively impact the antitrust case against them.
  
  People who use alternative clients are just using add blockers on the main cite anyway so i don't see why YouTube should even try to stop them.

Oh excellent, it works again!!
I did notice the livesreams have not been affected, only uploaded videos. I'm waiting for a public release with the fix.
- So the current build on the site is 2.3.1? How long does it take for the public release?

Is the headline supposed to have an error message in the middle of it? Or did mine break somehow?
"Freetube [BAD_HTTP_STATUS: 403] Potential causes: IP block or streaming URL deciphering failed is fixed" is what my headline says.

Would be awesome if Freetube could automatically check if the video exists on Odysee and play it from there if YT copy is unavailable or blocked.

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