• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    I’ve had issues with Invidious and Piped literally every time I’ve tried to use them. Can’t understand how people even use the public servers.

    However I have disabled Piped proxy in LibreTube and been using that for a long while but for the last week or so it hasn’t been working at all.

    GrayJay is still working though.

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      11 months ago

      There was a problem with DASH. Now it’s fixed, it should work with the proxy enabled.

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        11 months ago

        As I said, it’s never worked with the proxy enabled. And it’s still not working with it disabled, right now.

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        11 months ago

        It’s the same with all the other frontends (LibReddit, Nitter, etc.). They never work and everyone is just like “try a different instance!”. How many dozen different instances should I try before I give up?

        Shout out to Stealth (Reddit) and Squawker (Twitter), those both work the vast majority of the time without any “instances” to depend on or switch through.

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          11 months ago

          Google is blocking popular instances these days, so yeah, you basically need to find an unpopular instance, which usually means it’s new and may not live for long, or it will quickly become popular, because it works, which will cause Google to block it.

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          11 months ago

          there’s a browser extension called libredirect that has a keyboard shortcut to switch between instances. you can also use freetube/newpipe/mpv.

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          11 months ago

          Good to know about Stealth. Thanks!

          Yeah I might try the others a couple more times before giving up but it’s not gone well for me thusfar. Libreddit and invidious worked for me for like 4 days last time, both crapped out about the same time. It’s annoying to have to repeatedly troubleshoot what used to be something you could basically count on working

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          11 months ago

          I tried it and my main complaint was it was like 720p, so lower quality (noticeable to me just looking at it). But it “just worked” for me. But I’m also not interested in YouTube enough to play this game - if they block me, I stop going there. It seems like they give up blocking me every so often (or something updates IDK).