Leila IP blocked by youtube
monovergentYouTube being YouTube. It’s aggressive enough that I occasionally get blocked even with a residential IP address.
For those who care… Often unplugging your modem for 24h will refresh your IP
I suppose it works, but that’s quite drastic just to watch YT.
DreamButtHold 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.
In my case, any restart will do; maybe others are the same.
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%
retrolaseredFreetube, invidious and vacuumtube all stopped working for me. Getting error messages in freetube that looks like its getting xml when it expects json
It’s been broken for a few weeks. They’re aware but I think it’s an upstream fix they’re waiting on. I’m the meantime I use yt-dlp.
Works fine in spain
ArdensThis 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.
YouTube is usually the final straw in degoogling. It’s not like there is much of a competition with other services really.
There is peer tube and odyssey which exist as alternatives, but the one common problem with them is the lack of educational content or other types of content.
So if you want a person to explain you a concept you don’t understand - you are destined to go to YouTube.
What did you do before YT? You know, there’s a whole internet full of stuff. I know it takes a little effort, but it’s worth while.
And the reason why there isn’t much competition from other sites is, that you don’t use them. Go use them, and the content will improve.
“How did you do things 20 years ago” Is not the gotcha you think it is.
Yes it is. And you don’t refute it just by saying it isn’t. Try an argument next time. :-)
LeonixsterWow you’re an ass
To you… and that’s fine. That doesn’t change the fact that I’m right. ;-)
Now, do you have anything else to contribute, than a childish comment?
Nah, you’re not worth the effort trying to convince you outside of your condescending bubble of arrogance. Enjoy your view from your high horse tho
I’d say that too, if I had tried to let my gut feelings talk, and was caught up, having no real evidence for my claims.
You went for me personally, and couldn’t even back your claims up. You are not worth it, and you are obviously caught up in your narrative.
There is content on YouTube that is not available available anywhere else. Using an alternative frontend with a local account like NewPipe is de-googling to an extend. If that is not de-googling then neither is using something like StartPage for search.
The whole point of de-googling is limiting as much as possible your data exposure to Google. Completely eliminating is impossible, unless you are fine with not being able to access the majority of the web since due to the use of reCAPCHAv3.
Please give me an example of content that you can’t find anywhere else?
It’s “degoogle”, not “limit google use”… And no, it’s not impossible. What a myth to spread in this forum. :-)
Ethoslab
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easily found other places than YT… Next time, try writing a meaningful sentence.
AFAIK Etho does not upload anywhere other than YouTube. Go ahead and post a link that isn’t a reupload. I’ve not found any.
It’s literally on Ethos own homepage: https://etho.tv/ Twitch is a fine example.
And anyway - as I said, you can find a lot of people playing MC anywhere on the internet. And it’s not like its crucial information for people…
“etho.tv: welcome to ethoslab, (An unofficial chobblesome fan site)”
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Links to Twitter, twitch, and YouTube. Twitch is for streaming, not for video uploads. Cmon man, why are you being this obtuse on purpose?
Why are you being stupid? Seriously, tell me what etho has uploaded, that is important information, that you can’t find anywhere else online? I’m still waiting, for are you just being obtuse on purpose?
You are correct, it’s not “crucial information”. Alas I have a feeling you’d argue art also is not crucial. You should look up a fellow called Maslow and the pyramid he built.
You are funny… Etho is art, is that your claim? Or are you just making a stupid and childish straw man here? 🙃
Uh, you want to debate Maslow, then please tell me which of the pyramids he presented, you’d like to talk about? And please tell me, how that in any way makes someone playing MC crucial to peoples lives?
Please give me an example of content that you can’t find anywhere else?
I really dont know what answer you expect on that. It’s no secret that the vast majority of creators only upload their videos on YouTube. Should they mirror them on something like Peertube? Well, yeah, but this is not in your control.
It’s “degoogle”, not “limit google use”… And no, it’s not impossible. What a myth to spread in this forum. :-)
Please answer to me honestly. Do you block all Google related domains on the DNS level including anything related to Google reCaptcha? If yes, please tell me how exactly you are using the web in 2025?
I really dont know what answer you expect on that. It’s no secret that the vast majority of creators only upload their videos on YouTube. Should they mirror them on something like Peertube? Well, yeah, but this is not in your control.
It’s a simple question, but I guess you just proved my point here. It was your claim, that there are exclusive content on YT, that you can’t find anywhere else. A claim that didn’t hold.
Tell me, why do you expect an answer, when you refuse to give one? I don’t have to block every domain to not use a service. Are you really that clueless?
Next you’ll be saying that I use google, when I read a document someone wrote in Google Docs, right? 🙃
Are you being purposefully obtuse right now? There are tons of creators who post to YouTube and that’s it. Nowhere else.
And what they post about you can find lots of other places. Are you being purposefully dumb right now? We are talking about unique content that you can’t find anywhere else. Not a single person, unless they say something that you can only hear on youtube, and it’s relevant for people to know… Get to it… I’m waiting.
Are you serious right now? What do you expect me to do? List you every channel on YouTube that I personally happen to watch, to prove that they don’t post their content anywhere else?
I asked you to give me an example of some content that only exist on YT. Bear in mind, it has to be some content that you need, and can’t find anywhere else. There are, obviously some creators that post only on YT, but what they post about, you can find lots of other places. There’s no real knowledge that you can only find on YT… But feel free to give me an example (that’s just 1 example I ask for), and that’s too much for you.
I rest my case! ;-)
I feel like you have to be trolling to ask for an example of a youtube video you can’t find outside youtube. Obviously most creators don’t crosspost their videos to something like bilibili or dailymotion or peertube.
Why are you trying to gatekeep getting away from google (degoogling) by claiming you have to completely abandon anything google owns for it to count? You’re being weird.
I didn’t ask for a video specific to YT. I asked for a topic, for information, that you couldn’t find anywhere else online, but on YT…
You must be a troll, to try to act stupid, or to consciously try to change the focus here!
You are truly weird for saying that degoogling is about anything else than to stop using google. Now, stop trolling!
I get this many times per day. I keep changing which vpn server I connect with.
What do they mean by “logging in through Settings”?
You can log in to your google account in Newpipe and it’s forks to google to not block you/block you less.
It’s only used as a fallback tho
I don’t see it, but maybe it’s because I use Tubular.
Google has been pretty aggressive with blocking IP addresses of VPNs for quite a while. The only solution is to just try different VPN servers until you find one that works for the time being. Or, you can use Invidious. This instance has been working pretty well for me for quite a few months now.
a better path forward is to use one of youtube alternative like freetube, peertube or tankietube
FreeTube is just a frontend running localy on your machine. It still connects to YouTube in order to fetch the videos, so if your IP gets blocked it will not work either. It is possible to configure FreeTube to use Invidious, but that only works if you find a public instance that still allows API access. I still haven’t found one.
Peertube is an open source self-hostable YouTube alternative. It is great, but only if the creators you follow actually put their videos there. Most creators will just put their stuff on YouTube and not bother with anything else.
As for TankieTube to be honest I’ve never heard of it. From a quick search though it looks like a Peertube instance like many others that you can use if you don’t want to self-host. So, it applies what I said for Peertube.
What I myself do? I self-host a private instance of Invidious of which I am the only user, and then connect to it using Clipious on Android and FreeTube on the desktop. I also keep the server behind a VPN, so I can easily change the IP in case I get blocked. But for quite a few months now I had no such issues. Maybe I got lucky but I use this setup for close to a year and I am pretty happy with it.
Take a look at this post: lemmy.ml/post/36966537
How to keep avoiding Google when it hamstrings Freetube [Linux] - Lemmy
If you have any sense of privacy, you know better than to use Google’s official Youtube clients - not to mention, they’re really kind of terrible. To view Youtube video comfortably and limit Google’s privacy invasions, the main third-party clients are: - NewPipe [https://newpipe.net/] and derivatives (Android) - Grayjay [https://grayjay.app/] (Android) - Freetube [https://freetubeapp.io/] (Desktop) - Grayjay desktop - x64 only [https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/Grayjay.Desktop] (Desktop) Unfortunately, if you’ve been using those third-party clients for a long time, you know Google plays a game of cat and mouse with them, to discourage users from using them: - Google breaks something or other (usually the player API) or Google blocks your IP because it detects a non-Google player. - The developers of those clients play catch-up, make their clients work again for a while. - Google breaks them again. Rinse. Repeat. And Google now having free rein to be as abusive as they want under the Trump regime, it’s not getting any better ☹️ The developers who react most quickly to Google’s shenanigans are the FUTO [https://www.futo.org/] developers behind Grayjay: when Google breaks it, usually they have a fix within hours, if not less. And there’s a reason for that: they’re paid to do it. Incidentally, I encourage you to purchase a FUTO license: it’s money well spent to encourage FUTO. They’ve really earned it. The Newpipe developers are also fairly quick to fix their client. Not always, but they do a pretty decent job. Freetube however can take many days to get fixed. For instance, the native Freetube player is currently broken [https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/8083] and it’s been broken for a week. When Google plays with everybody’s balls, if you’re on mobile, at least Grayjay will almost always get the job done, so you don’t have to compromise your privacy and hit the official client. On the desktop however, unless you have an ARM64 machine and you use Grayjay as a desktop app in Waydroid [https://waydro.id/] - which is a totally valid solution that works great, in case you didn’t know [EDIT: this is incorrect: there is in fact an x64 Grayjay desktop client [https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/Grayjay.Desktop] - Thanks @[email protected] [/u/[email protected]] [https://piefed.social/u/[email protected]]], Freetube will sadly let you down regularly for a long time. The official workaround recommended by the Freetube developers when Google breaks their player is to use an external player. But there are two problems with that: - If you don’t use the right external players - which Google likely broke too - or the player isn’t configured to use the latest and greatest Google evasion code, it’s not going to work. - When spawning Freetube with a URL (typically by LibRedirect [https://libredirect.github.io/] from your browser), Freetube ignores the external player and tries to play the video with its broken internal player anyway. You can always manually tell it to use the external player after it’s failed trying to play the video itself, but it’s an extra step, and you end up running both Freetube and the external player just to view a Youtube video from a website. So I figured I’d post a little guide on how to setup an external video player that works with Freetube (and gets fixed quickly when Google breaks it) and how to spawn it directly from your browser to view a video and bypass LibRedirect / Freetube entirely. This little guide is mostly for Linux. If you’re not running Linux, the principle should be the same, but the details of how to make this work are different of course. So the player you need is SMPlayer [https://www.smplayer.info/]. SMPlayer is a great mpv [https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv] player frontend in its own right. Don’t worry, both mpv and SMPlayer are usually available in most distros, so you can install it normally with your favorite package manager. But the thing that makes SMPlayer great is, to play Youtube video, it can use yt-dlp [https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp] as a backend to fetch the video from Youtube: SMplayer preferences setting to use yt-dlp as a backend to fetch Youtube videos [https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpixelfed.sdf.org%2Fstorage%2Fm%2F_v2%2F591190770262595513%2F0c2c69eb8-6377a8%2FwpzRi1tNPt5Z%2FFDmx2ZtM3KqT7AjdwCQLWprnKfOMIASweoU5vJ5o.jpg] And it turns out, the developers of yt-dlp are usually very quick to unfuck Google’s fuckeries and make it work again. Almost as quick as FUTO’s developers: when Google breaks things, yt-dlp is usually one of the first Youtube clients to start working again. The problem is, the version of yt-dlp that comes in most distributions is usually hopelessly behind, so it won’t work with your distro’s official package. To use the latest and greatest yt-dlp with SMPlayer, you need to use the version in the Github repo [https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp]. To do this: - Clone the repo (for example in your home directory): git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git - Make yt-dlp available in your PATH: ln -s ~/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.sh ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp Then if you invoke yt-dlp from any directory, it should start it correctly: $ yt-dlp Usage: yt-dlp [OPTIONS] URL [URL...] yt-dlp: error: You must provide at least one URL. Type yt-dlp --help to see a list of all options. Then you can try if SMPlayer now plays a Youtube video correctly: smplayer https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw Finally, configure Freetube to use SMPlayer as an external player: Freetube external player setting [https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpixelfed.sdf.org%2Fstorage%2Fm%2F_v2%2F591190770262595513%2F0c2c69eb8-6377a8%2Fu6jI1eCprALV%2FJ7SrZ8qo9r4Lztf08qAvnbGBWQX2s9di5JEeJnuo.jpg] Now try to play a video from Freetube: it should open SMPlayer and SMPlayer should play the video correctly. When Google breaks yt-dlp again, simply go into the repo and do a git pull --recurse-submodules. Do this regularly until the yt-dlp folks work their magic and fix it, which should happen a lot quicker than fixing the internal Freetube player. Finally, how to spawn SMPlayer directly from the browser: - Install the RunWith browser extension [https://github.com/waldner/Firefox-RunWith]: this little thing is a simple tool to spawn an external program from the browser and it’s really underrated. Not terribly user-friendly to install but it does the job fine. - In the RunWith extension preferences, configure RunWith like so: Setting in the RunWith browser extension to run SMPlayer on Youtube video links [https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpixelfed.sdf.org%2Fstorage%2Fm%2F_v2%2F591190770262595513%2F0c2c69eb8-6377a8%2FTYquOhKciRUS%2F0kYP43FzcZHHxf0EsRAww3RN2TpdgsyFxZZMTOAp.jpg] Then if you right-click on a Youtube video link, you’ll get an option in the context menu to open it with SMPlayer through RunWith: RunWith context menu option [https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpixelfed.sdf.org%2Fstorage%2Fm%2F_v2%2F591190770262595513%2F0c2c69eb8-6377a8%2FhP41wDieYYB3%2FMEd6hgIiMwApsMMJdJdvHapN5HxGBCYhMrOQb4KM.jpg] I hope this helps 🙂
rose56In situations like these, I call my IP and I ask to reset my line or change my IP.
You could probably log into your router and release/renew your IP.
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.
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.
For any lurkers I just want to add this will not work for most people as your modem will pull the same IP unless you leave it unplugged for an extended period of time. Extended being 24 hours or more. Worth a try, but it will be a rarity that doing this solves the issue.
I can’t get yt-dlp to work any more, it errors out all the time.
☂️-they block you because you use an alternative client. i’m using invidious and it’s mostly fine.
NutWrenchTampermonkey (Firefox extension) has a Youtube Tools script that still works.
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