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.
Maybe I don’t want “the best content”.
And if I did, why would I have come to YouTube?
Translated to English: To continue, turn off your VPN/Proxy. This will allow us to track you better and server you personalized ads that make use more money while destroying your privacy.
Otherwise there would be an option called ‘Nah, thanks, I’m fine with suboptimal content’.
My ad blocker won’t let me watch YouTube. It thinks it’s an ad itself. Works for me, no ads
Youtube can locate deez nuts
“”“Best content”“”"
Grayjay… is the one that holds a solution for your problems…
This stopped working for me a few months ago.
Consider hitting the “update” buttons in the sources and main settings tab.
Very Funny. I have revisited it several times, fully updated, and it still doesn’t play YouTube videos.
Weird. It continues to work for me, as recently as this morning. Maybe delete and re install?
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.
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?
This is installed on a pixel 8. Here’s a acreen grab of the video endlessly loading.
You should feel flattered. They’re saying that your private data is the best content.
I have to turn off my VPN just to use Lemmy 😭
Why? I’ve never had that happen here.
I wish I knew why.
invidious for the rescue
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.
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.
Maybe they should say so then instead of pretending they’re concerned they might not be able to serve “the best content”.
positivation
Maybe content shouldn’t be geo blocked.
What’s legal in one country isn’t legal in another.
Depictions of smoking for example.
But, free and open access is a core principle of the internet.
Principle*
Thank you, corrected :)
And? What does that change.
lmfao yea I totally remember paying to access geocities back in the day. …
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.
This is a specific problem with stuff from network television. Won’t stop their algorithm from pushing it to you though.
Sports clips especially have a lot of restrictions.
People still need to follow their local laws.
Those people are the people in those countries, not everyone else.
Yes and that’s why content is geoblocked where applicable.
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.
Ah yes, but to be fair:
Who is that fair to exactly?
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.
