I watch YouTube through newpipe, and recently tried pipepipe too. They work great, but lately I have been blocked on several occasions with a message that either says “content unavailable” or “your IP has been blocked by YouTube”. I usually use a VPN which has helped but tried it today and still got this message :/
Finally changing the location on the VPN seemed to work. But seriously wtf is going on?
YouTube being YouTube. It’s aggressive enough that I occasionally get blocked even with a residential IP address.
I get this all the time when I download too much stuff with yt-dlp. I just unplug/plug my router and get a new IP.
I can’t get yt-dlp to work any more, it errors out all the time.
I’ve had this on freetube on desktop happen constantly over the last few months. Seems to happen after watching a certain time length on YouTube and then blocks me from watching on freetube or using YouTube embedded. It tends to come back for me after a few hours. All its made me to is cut back on my youtube subscriptions and watching by nearly 90%
Happening quite a bit lately, apparently they are trying to detect third-party clients and block suspicious IPs for up to several hours. This also goes for Invidious et al.
Take a look at this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/36966537
VPNs work since they seem to be experimenting regionally, especially where they have less competition + more public-private partnership
they block you because you use an alternative client
Tampermonkey (Firefox extension) has a Youtube Tools script that still works for downloading.
For those who care… Often unplugging your modem for 24h will refresh your IP
E you people are angry and weird and not that bright actually
I suppose that works, but that’s quite drastic just to watch YT.
Hold on babe. Let’s wait 24 hours for me to show you that 2 minute meme
I’m not suggesting it as a solution as you can see from my original text, it’s just a fun fact.
Works fine in spain
This group is “DeGoogle Yourself”, and people are talking about needing to watch YT?! Interesting. It’s not degoogle for sure, but hey… :-)
How about starting to make it worthwhile to use other sites than googles? I mean - go to an alternative, start following some content you like, or make your own.
It’s pretty sad, especially in a group like this, to talk about your addiction and how you can’t degoogle.
