My FreeTube stopped working today, so I figured others would also be affected.
The devs posted a temporary workaround on GitHub:
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Set Primary API to Invidious in the General Settings
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Select an Instance that is near to you, see https://api.invidious.io/. Make sure to pick one that has a checkmark in the API field. Also make sure you start typing the instance name with
https://
and it should list instances as suggestions. -
Disable Fallback to Non-Preferred Backend on Failure in the General Settings
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Disbale Proxy Videos Through Invidious in the Player settings
This seems to be working for now, until the (awesome) devs release an update to fix the issue.
- AdellcomdoisL ( @AdellcomdoisL@beehaw.org ) English25•2 months ago
Hey, thanks a lot, both NewPipe and FreeTube have been giving issues lately thanks to YouTube constant fuckery.
- ShaggySnacks ( @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ) English10•2 months ago
This worked like a charm.
- Dr. Wesker ( @wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ) English7•2 months ago
Will it play Live videos, though? They completely stopped working for me a day ago.
I just tested and yes, working ok for me.
- PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] ( @PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ) English5•2 months ago
Aaand it’s been fixed as of 52 minutes ago. Bravo!
- mr_right ( @mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•2 months ago
thanks it seems that YouTube is playing with its polymer script again, many apps also stopped working
- youmaynotknow ( @jjlinux@lemmy.ml ) English4•2 months ago
They broke Newpipe/Tubular only a couple of days after they fixed it, lol.
- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) English4•2 months ago
Lovely, thank you!
- J'Pol ( @jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ) English4•2 months ago
Thanks for this! Usually when something weird like this happens, I’ll just sigh, update the package and hope.