Videos looping infinitely in SABR requests and becoming unwatchable.
Comments unavailable to read because of “TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘endpoint’)”.
These have been a problem for like at least 2 weeks now. Before there were like 3 refreshes due to SABR and you could open up comments by spamming the button despite the error.
Now however, it’s completely unusable.
Is this the death of FreeTube? I’ve really loved this software and would hate to have to permanently return to the website with all that tracking bullshit and no offline subscriptions :(
edit: An update was released, it is now possible to watch videos but the comment section is still broken.
Youtube regularly makes changes that break third party apps/clients/frontends.
Give it a couple days, the devs will catch up and fix the issues/incompatibility.
The devs just released a new version that fixed the issue. When use Freetube, you have to be ready for Google fucking everything up and then the Freetube devs working to fix it.
It’s literally a game of cat and mouse.
On a slightly related side note. I would hazard a guest that people who use Freetube, Invidious, Newpipe, etc make up like at most 5% of people who use Youtube. I am being very generous with the 5%. Google will do anything to make sure that they maximize profits.
flathub update when 😔
it’s here!
🥳
in the new version the playback works fine, but the comments are still broken.
i’m fine with that though, but i hope they fix that too
My thoughts exactly, FreeTube devs are the GOAT.
Naw, that’s just Alphabet being a fucking removed, what happens regularly. Freetube and Newpipe are always being patched to circumvent some new shit in YouTube’s code.
Nah, FreeTube breaks pretty regularly.
It will most likely be fixed in the next release.How soon before Google goes nuclear and completely locks YT to only their native client, and only on Chrome?
Unlikely since youtube is the standard for embedded media across the web and locking YouTube to only chrome seems like grounds for a lawsuit
A lawsuit that Google can just bribe their way out of.
Hopefully leads to a lemmy like exodus
Several small scale exoduses of niche communities, leaving the corporate behemoth with a miniscule loss in userbase that is quickly recouped?
The youthbers are even more dependent that reeeeeeditors. At this point, even if Goofle started making literal nazi content themselves, they’d probably gain viewers, not lose it.
When one falls, another takes its place. Check out VacuumTube. It uses the official YouTube Leanback interface with adblock, sponsorblock, etc.
That said, I’m sure FreeTube will probably be able to fix whatever you’re going through, assuming it isn’t Google rate-limiting or blocking you outright.
thank you, seems like there’s no offline subscriptions but this is better than nothing.
i can just check the subscriptions from freetube for now i guess, unless that breaks too
hopefully freetube gets fixed soon! i really miss it already
edit:
:(
Oh wow this is exactly what I wished existed. A standard TV experience without ads.
This happens every now and then. I have been following the progress on their repo and it seems the SABR request loop has already been merged.
This happens occasionally and have to be patient for a fix to come out. Sometimes takes a week or longer. During those times I just use freetube as a rss feed and use it to open videos on Firefox.
Pretty crazy amount of plugins I need to make default youtube palatable though like sponsorblock, dearrow, and blocktube. Freetube just simplifies it when it works.
I use yt-dlp. It also works with other sites, not just yt.
Every so often G does sth to break it. But not very often. It works more of the time, than any other thing I tried so far.
This reminds me, I need to set up yt-dlp
You can always use a invidious instance to watch YouTube. Last time I tried it was not bad, but some instances use anubis so I cannot watch YouTube without JavaScript.
This is hardly the first time Freetube has broken at a core level. They (and their upstream dependencies) have to keep up with YouTube’s constant technical changes, some of which are deliberately hostile to people circumnavigating their panopticon.
It may take weeks or even months but they’ve fixed it up until now.
Not familiar with the app, but PipePipe and other NewPipe forks have had similar issues lately. They have been fixed recently, however, so one could assume they will be similarly fixed in FreeTube too.
that’s good news :)
I you use the external player, and mpv in particular with yt-dlp installed, then you’ll have an alternative still using freetube as frontend to navigate YT.
I do prefer ytcui with yt-dlp backend, which is native, low on resources and I really like ncurses, but that’s up to anyone.
That said, yt-dlp also gets IP blocked every once in a while, and also find itself non working at all depending on G. moves…
I don’t know if other interfaces expose it or not, but all YouTube channels are is an RSS feed and Newpipe exposes them so that you can subscribe to the RSS feed in your favorite RSS reader and just bring up new videos that way.
