To elaborate, while the errors in the middle of videos were because of general anti-bot measures, the errors at the beginning of videos were caused by a change that specifically targets third-party clients like NewPipe and youtube-dl. This is definitely part of an arms race.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's inevitable that youtube will go the way of twitter and reddit, closing down their API. I'm surprised it's taking them this long to start the process.

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

New Pipe is not using youtube API: https://newpipe.net/FAQ/download/#download-youtube-api They are just acting as a browser, that's why they can not forbid it legally.

[–] WanderingKnight@noauthority.social 6 points 2 months ago

@dessalines @botorfj

Newpipe is updated and downloading. Happy day.

Also installed Tubular. Glad to see the imports are interchangeable.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Definitely is. Newpipe also allows downloads and less than a month ago, they had to release a hotfix because Google broke external viewers, like Newpipe and Invidious. I've noticed 2 days ago that Newpipe stopped playing and downloading videos, so I figured it must've been Google again