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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Plantparent323@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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?

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[-] cristorf@lemmy.world 8 points 3 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.uk 6 points 3 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.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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