YES. What the fuck piped? Work and I’ll use you.

I’ve never had any trouble playing videos with NewPipe + Sponsorblock on Android.

In a desktop browser it’s trickier, but Libredirect helps immensely to redirect to a working instance on the occasion that one of them is down/doesn’t play the video

I don’t rely on any bots. I’d recommend unchecking “show bot accounts.” I know some people find a few of them helpful, and I don’t want to sound ungrateful to the people who’ve developed them, but they mostly just clutter up the threads in my experience

I had to really work with it to find a handful that actually showed video. Even then, they’re hit and miss, sometimes requiring pings to remind them that I exist.

Then you get to the throttling…

Same experience, not from a lack of trying but I finally blocked the bot this week.

Huh, I wonder what the issue is. I e clicked on many of them and never had a problem with the video starting, though I suppose I’ve heard there were problems recently (as in perhaps YouTube has been hampering it).

Worked fine for a month then nothing on every instances

I use Invidious now and it have a button to swich instances in case it buffering too long

I have issues sometimes, and others it works perfectly. I think they’ve got networks issues that need to be worked out.

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/qfDq5dlp2o4

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

Welp I don’t know why that never occurred to me, I feel like a moran.

Same. Also all those tldr bots too

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

You’re all stupid. See, they’re gonna be lookin’ for army guys.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/grond

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.