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[–] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

Translated to English: To continue, turn off your VPN/Proxy. This will allow us to track you better and serve you personalized ads that make us more money while destroying your privacy.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    My ad blocker won't let me watch YouTube. It thinks it's an ad itself. Works for me, no ads

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago*

    Youtube can locate deez nuts

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    """Best content""""

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    After getting this shit for a while I just installed a Firefox extension called LibRedirect that whenever I click on a YouTube link it just sends me to an alternative (I have it configured to use invidious) instead.

    Problem solved.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Grayjay... is the one that holds a solution for your problems...

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (10 children)

    This stopped working for me a few months ago.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Consider hitting the "update" buttons in the sources and main settings tab.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (8 children)

    Very Funny. I have revisited it several times, fully updated, and it still doesn't play YouTube videos.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Weird. It continues to work for me, as recently as this morning. Maybe delete and re install?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (6 children)

    Ok I reinstalled and I'm still not able to play video. The feed loads, but the video never loads. The update did change things, as before the whole page of the app froze but now I can click on me u items.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    What the heck is your hardware or software environment? Even on GrapheneOS I have all of the dependencies needed for the app to function.

    Are you running some ancient, discontinued release of Android?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    This is installed on a pixel 8. Here's a acreen grab of the video endlessly loading.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    That is odd. I'm using a Pixel 9, but I can't think of any substantial differences that would change how GrayJay would function. If you can grab a copy of your logs and send them to the dev team, I'm sure they could narrow down the issue better.

    One thing you do have to keep in mind is that the Youtube source updates quite often (since ofc Google isn't a fan of it), so if something's really off, try updating that first.

    I'm currently watching a YT video on my own install rn, so current implementation is functional.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yep, nearly daily updates with the YouTube plugin and often the main grayjay as well. I'm in the US if that makes a difference, but ever since YouTube updated their platform a few months ago grayjay simply doesn't play video. I should submit a big report, I was just under the impression that the app was losing the arms race.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    Fortunately, the project is steady and ongoing (in fact, their desktop client released recently and I've been enjoying that with local sync), but of course there'll be things that slip through the cracks.

    I'm also in the US, so I doubt it's a regional issue.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Had a similar issue with a singular video using Freetube. Had to download the video itself through ytdl-p in order to view it. Wasn't a total waste but wasn't a video I'd recommended either. There was zero chance I was gonna just skin and scalp my internet privacy and safety for that singular video.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I have to turn off my VPN just to use Lemmy 😭

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    You should feel flattered. They're saying that your private data is the best content.

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