Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.

• carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Get this: YT will not be working on any known/popular VPN without signing in because it will always display: “Sign in to confirm that you’re not a bot”

  This behavior is also completely unrelated to the above mentioned issue and is unchanged for a very long time.

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• VampirePenguin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sometimes you have to change your VPN location to get newpipe to work.

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