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?

  • cristorf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    6 days ago

    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%

    • retrolasered@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Freetube, invidious and vacuumtube all stopped working for me. Getting error messages in freetube that looks like its getting xml when it expects json

      • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        It’s been broken for a few weeks. They’re aware but I think it’s an upstream fix they’re waiting on. In the meantime I use yt-dlp.