Many YT privacy frontends are down it seems. YouTube is cracking down on these servers fast. Both Invidious and Piped services are not working now.

So how are you watching videos now? Just plain youtube[dot]com with unblock and VPN?

  • llama@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    131·
    4 days ago

    There are several way, honestly. For Android, there’s NewPipe. The app itself fetches the YouTube data. For PC, there are similar applications that do the same such FreeTube. Those are the solutions I recommend.

    If you’re one of those, you can also host your own Invidious and/or Piped instances. But I like NewPipe and FeeTube better.

    • countrypunk@slrpnk.net
      4·
      4 days ago

      I’ve used freetube for a while and it seems like it’s expierencing the same issues since I’ve been getting a lot of error messages lately.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 days ago

        FreeTube also is based on Invidious instances, changing the instance may work, but better to set the SMplayer as extern player, then you can open the Video in this player which works almost always.

          • Zerush@lemmy.ml
            2·
            2 days ago

            Yes, if you find a workng Invidious instance it’s ok, but if not, FreeTube without SMplayer is useless.