Been using yt-dlp for videos and for watching live streams VPN + Mullvad Browser. Tried Nadeko but keeps stopping and all of this is annoying. Wish Piped still worked.

Please use the search before posting, it’s already been discussed in multiple threads. [image] How to watch youtube while always-on VPN is present? Questions I’ve got a paid ProtonVPN subscription and always-on VPN connection is running 24/7 on my phone. I’ve tried a bunc…

Freetube works mostly. NewPipe also works mostly. Its a perpetual game of cat and mouse. All we have to do is wait and bounce around Invidious or just plain watch in browser, annoying it might seem.

PipePipe on my android works fine. Edit: at least it was working. Now I can watch one video if I’m lucky. Newpipe isn’t any better. I did find a work-around. Clear the app’s cache and force closed it. Open it and start downloading the videos. No Sponsorblock this way but at least I can watch the v…

Can I ask why is it stopped working? Did you try switching Backends before complaining? Nadeko works perfectly here so I have no idea what you’re saying honestly. But just in case you didn’t, Make sure to switch backends when a video doesn’t work, 99% of the time it works this way.

For me, FreeTube with TOR as a proxy works fine (almost, sometimes you need to change identity in TOR to get a new IP). [image] anon39279085: Nadeko works perfectly here so I have no idea what you’re saying honestly. No luck for me, doesn’t work, like many others.

you tried the multiple backends like before? Also iirc I think we already discussed about this.

Frontends haven’t been reliable lately. I keep getting API errors and there are posts on Reddit and Github with same complaints. I read Youtube and Frontend developers are in a constant battle. Freetube has only worked around 50% of the time for me, on both Flatpak and Android version. It’s not wor…

what Invidious instance were you using? The nadeko.net one? yes the dev behind the invidious nadeko gets to uphill battles at times but they’re also quick enough to recover it imo and I’ve been using them ever since.

[image] Uzbeki_Vulture: Then today I found in an app called “Cleantube” which seems very similar to Freetube. On Aurora store Is this the app you’re talking about? [image] Uzbeki_Vulture: yet it came up when I searched YouTube frontend on the store. Is it trustworthy? There’s a bunch …

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