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?

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    I download it with yt-dlp and watch it with a video player. that way they don’t know at what pace do I watch it (when do I rewind and pause, or speed up).

    or grayjay when I remember that it exists.
    other options for me include FreeTube and NewPipe

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        yeah unfortunately, but what can I do. you can’t download through inv/piped with yt-dlp anyway, because it just recognizes the youtube proxy and then goes direct to youtube