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.
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.
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.
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.
So if Uzbekistan decides to ban any content including camels wearing pink ribbons the rest of the planet needs to geoblock that content to accommodate their dumb bullshit?
Then its up to that country to enforce its own dumb rules on its own citizens. Some clown country with a dumb law doesn't mean that every other person on earth has to lose privacy.
Those 'licensing issues' are a small part of the reason streaming, cable TV, and absolutely anything with any sort of intellectual property rights have become guarded by an iron curtain of shitfuck.
Licensing at this point has become a pretense to declare war in court. Sidenote that copyright laws in general are severly outdated as well. I mean the DMCA itself was written in 1998 and hasn't been updated in any meaningful way since then.
48 Comments
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 61 pts · 231d
Maybe I don't want "the best content".
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 229d
And if I did, why would I have come to YouTube?
ericheese@piefed.social · 27 pts · 230d
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.
Dicska@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 229d
Otherwise there would be an option called 'Nah, thanks, I'm fine with suboptimal content'.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 230d
My ad blocker won't let me watch YouTube. It thinks it's an ad itself. Works for me, no ads
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 230d
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.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 230d
Youtube can locate deez nuts
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 230d
"""Best content""""
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 230d
Grayjay... is the one that holds a solution for your problems...
Hoticeberg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 230d
This stopped working for me a few months ago.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 230d
Consider hitting the "update" buttons in the sources and main settings tab.
Hoticeberg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 230d
Very Funny. I have revisited it several times, fully updated, and it still doesn't play YouTube videos.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 230d
Weird. It continues to work for me, as recently as this morning. Maybe delete and re install?
Hoticeberg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 228d
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.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 228d
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?
Hoticeberg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 227d
This is installed on a pixel 8. Here's a acreen grab of the video endlessly loading.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 230d
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 230d
I have to turn off my VPN just to use Lemmy đ
incompetent@programming.dev · 5 pts · 229d
Why? I've never had that happen here.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
I wish I knew why.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 230d
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.
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
You should feel flattered. They're saying that your private data is the best content.
Gladaed@feddit.org · -18 pts · 230d
To be fair: there may be licensing issues or geo blocked content which they are forbidden from serving you and must make a reasonable effort.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 44 pts · 230d
Maybe they should say so then instead of pretending they're concerned they might not be able to serve "the best content".
Gladaed@feddit.org · -1 pts · 230d
positivation
13igTyme@piefed.social · 26 pts · 230d
Maybe content shouldn't be geo blocked.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 230d
Whatâs legal in one country isnât legal in another.
Depictions of smoking for example.
dontsayaword@piefed.social · 17 pts · 230d
But, free and open access is a core principle of the internet.
elbarto777@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 230d
dontsayaword@piefed.social · 2 pts · 230d
Thank you, corrected :)
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 230d
This is a specific problem with stuff from network television. Wonât stop their algorithm from pushing it to you though.
Sports clips especially have a lot of restrictions.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 0 pts · 230d
People still need to follow their local laws.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 4 pts · 230d
Those people are the people in those countries, not everyone else.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · -1 pts · 230d
Yes and that's why content is geoblocked where applicable.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 3 pts · 230d
So if Uzbekistan decides to ban any content including camels wearing pink ribbons the rest of the planet needs to geoblock that content to accommodate their dumb bullshit?
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 230d
And? What does that change.
You understand that you already pay for it, yeah? So parties have their own obligations and protections.
Itâs free to âaccessâ but servers and everything in between cost money and have to follow local laws.
You just saying that, shows you have no concept of how the internet works. Itâs not even free lmfao.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 1 pts · 230d
lmfao yea I totally remember paying to access geocities back in the day. ...
Gladaed@feddit.org · -5 pts · 230d
Theb we must ban the Internet. Depictions of rape and torture should stay banned.
Licensing stuff properly is frustrating though. And not always practical.
There are (very low) limits to what's sensible, but some censorship can be good.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 10 pts · 230d
Then its up to that country to enforce its own dumb rules on its own citizens. Some clown country with a dumb law doesn't mean that every other person on earth has to lose privacy.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 230d
Ah yes, but to be fair:
njm1314@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 230d
Who is that fair to exactly?
gndagreborn@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 230d
Those 'licensing issues' are a small part of the reason streaming, cable TV, and absolutely anything with any sort of intellectual property rights have become guarded by an iron curtain of shitfuck.
Licensing at this point has become a pretense to declare war in court. Sidenote that copyright laws in general are severly outdated as well. I mean the DMCA itself was written in 1998 and hasn't been updated in any meaningful way since then.