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Seriously, YouTube? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I know they've been getting more controlling over time, but blocking an entire browser, really? I've been watching YouTube over Firefox for 5+ years now just fine, and now they shut me out arbitrarily? Nah, fuck that.

Edit: It's something wrong with the new LibreWolf update and my profile. Causes issues in both normal and private browsing, but not a different profile and is solved by switching user agent.

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[–] sunglocto 26 points 1 month ago

Use a UA switcher. It's just YouTube being overreaching.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've actually recently decided to start finding more peer tube channels to watch and slowly move away from YouTube. Eventually, Google is going to restrict YouTube to those who have a Google account and I will not be losing all my content because suddenly I can't use their service anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Absolutely agree! Who knows how long some of the content is actually going to last on YouTube before they start burning the old stuff.

Anyone know of a way to bulk download off a YouTube playlist?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is youtube-dl on linux still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

yt-dlp

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OP lost access to YT music, not normally YouTube. It's confusing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw nothing in the post or comments to suggest that. Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The giant YT Music logo at the top of the image wasn't glaringly obvious to you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm blind. I didn't even notice the image until you pointed out that it was there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh my bad. In that case it's OP's fault for not utilizing the alt text feature appropriately.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

as an alternative, I recommend Yewtube (not to be confused with the Invidious instance with the same name):

https://github.com/mps-youtube/yewtube

It's a TUI application that streams the music to mplayer, VLC or MPV depending on your preference. It can also handle playlists/albums.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just posted a temporary workaround.

https://old.lemmy.world/post/29061214

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is not occurring on my Zen. Could be a bug of your Firefox fork?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I get those a lot from other sites (weirdly YT Music doesn't on FF or Zen) like Amazon Music (even when just trying to buy a digital track or album). Weirdly the sites will act normal for a moment or two before removed about my browser not being "updated" or otherwise Chromium-based. We managed to break the internet being coded for IE, but allowed Google to openly make the new IE. Safari seems to work for some of the sites, but that is just because Apple made all the iOS browsers use Webkit with custom skins on one of the top selling phone/tablet options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wait... I heard that librewolf wasn't getting proper updates anymore? Did it get picked up again or am I missing something?