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.

Nah, FreeTube breaks pretty regularly.
It will most likely be fixed in the next release.

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.

How soon before Google goes nuclear and completely locks YT to only their native client, and only on Chrome?

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.

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 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.

I'm using this Invidious instance for now, on the "10 - Tétartos 1" backend, it seems to be working, a bit wonky but working. I'm using the web interface, and freetube for my subscriptions.

I'm hoping it gets fixed soon.

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.

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.

Nope. As a longtime user of FreeTube, breakages like this is entirely normal. Give it some time and the devs will find a fix.

For what its worth, I usually rely on Invidious when Freetube breaks. So whenever Freetube breaks, try seeing if Invidious works. As a last resort, you can always use mpv + ytdlp.

Reporting in using newpipe, and its fine.

The new update has a new problem. If your IP or VPN Server is marked you cannot watch anything because youtube will show the stupid reCaptcha page and Freetube can't bypass it.

I use freetube + grayjay. Normally grayjays main problem is the subscription page not working but when freetube is down I can normally still watch the videos on Grayjay (including rn) until freetube gets an update

Freetube either runs off of YouTube’s APi directly or an Invidious API to proxy requests to Youtube, how is your application configured? If you’re using Invidious have you tried another instance?

Have you read any of the issue reports on their GitHub? it seems like issue #9526 might be what you’re looking for.

I'm using it as a way to keep track of channels I like, after I find something interesting, the actual playback is handled by yt-dlp + mpv. Because I always build yt-dlp from source, it is pretty much never broken for me.

Hooray to the relentless open source devs beating Google's puzzle games mere hours after they are released!

Noticed this I've just been using mpv:(

I don t care , i use odysee