There is something a bit off about it. When I try to import the show list that I have subbed, NewPipe is throwing an error that the file exported PIpepipe has some sort of 'unsecure" feature in use. I forgot the exact error though.
Otherwise it works. I wonder if it has some sort of shenanigans happenning, not necessarily by the side of the devs… more like misconfiguration? What makes me think is that Google isnt blocking it… maybe we are leaking some sort of indentifying information?
When I switched from Newpipe to PipePipe, I had to manually type in my subs. This was well over a year ago so I can’t recall what the popup said at the time.
Hi everyone, Youtube recently changed something in their APIs. All frontends seems broken.
In Freetube and Invidious channel video overview doesn’t load correctly.
NewPipe with the right VPN will continue to work. From personal experience, however, you should not update a feed with many subscriptions, as this tends to cause YT to block your connection.
Yeah so YouTube is now putting a lot of the cache preload on the server-side, which breaks or limits all frontends like Newpipe or Freetube.
If you keep your subscription under 125 then you should be able to load subscriptions through RSS mode. The SABR cache seems to randomly force-reload videos to 360p due to the server thinking the network is super slow. This seems to happen less without a VPN, but I’m not a fan of ditching that for a YouTube video.
Basically, YouTube seems to be testing some new server cache system for a few months now, but there’s no real info from Google yet.
It sure is a way to kick people off frontends I guess.