PieFedYouTube, your feeds are broken - Open RSS
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This article is about RSS feeds. Im pretty sure your client relies on RSS feeds to show you your locally subscribed feed of videos.
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Could have fooled me! Your English is immaculate! 👍👍
Oh i see, i thought you meant this as sort of a “i use freetube so im not affected by this”…
Also use LibreTube on Android with the same benefits. I just wish all those alternatives Frontends would have a sync service of some sorts. Started of by using Invidious but it its almost unusable nowadays similar to Piped but it also has an independent Subscriptions/Playlists with a simple API it would be cool for those local first apps would integrate into that or maybe something even more independent like a RSS Service to manage subscriptions (feeds do really have to work for that)
YouTube has made all these apps completely useless by blocking users that aren’t logged in.
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Well they must have created a blocking. Mechanism just for me then.
I know age restricted videos don’t work if you’re not singed in (and as such don’t work on any alternate frontend like Freetube that I know of), if that’s your problem.
That’s not the problem. These are not age-restricted.
Not sure if logging in would “solve” it, but I’ve been unable to watch YouTube videos while on a VPN on desktop with FreeTube and on mobile with LibreTube for a month or so now.
Also, on FreeTube the recommended videos on the sidebar usually include a ton of unrelated news channels. I’ve got so many of them blocked now but they keep showing up.
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this is intended behaviour. rss feeds don’t drive up engagement.
I browse the internet through RSS. You won’t convince me to go back to opening 100 different browser tabs just to keep track of all your walled gardens.
get content creators.
hide their feeds so they don’t make money. Use the algorithm to feed up creators the viewer didn’t subscribe to, so that they watch randos.
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Profit.
or recently start recommending you videos/mixes in your feed of stuff you used to watch years/decades ago. I don’t know why there doing that but I’ve just been getting hammered recently with crap I watched like 10+ years ago.
It’s daily 3-5h outage at this point on all youtube channel feeds. About 3:00-7:00 AM Greenwich time.
Oh thank fuck it isn’t just me. That’s about the afternoon/evening in the U.S.
I generate my YouTube feeds through RSSHub which also uses the API, so its a bit more durable than the officially provided feeds
It also has options for filtering out shorts which is nice