Has NewPipe v0.27.0 stopped working for anyone else? It won’t play anymore. It loads the video page and comments, but throws an error when attempting to play or download the video. I’ve submitted an error report, but was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this.

Edit: thank you, everyone! I figured it was google being a giant turd again, but want sure, since it worked perfectly fine for me yesterday, and I didn’t see anything pop up on Lemmy yet. I understand the logistical and costing nightmare of this, but we really need a FOSS decentralized video sharing platform to take hold and take off. Let google and other bigturdtech die where they made their beds.

Update: newpipe 0.27.1 was just released, which fixes this deliberately google-caused issue. As I understand, some other frontends implemented their own fixes, too. These teams are amazing!

    • Captain Beyond
      1•6 months ago

      “Privacy centric” is irrelevant because because this is the free software movement, not the privacy movement (also, this is not reddit, we have a higher standard of conduct here).

      Further reading on free software philosophy. Most relevant is why software should not have owners (1994) as this is fundamentally where FUTO disagrees with the open source/free software movement.

      I also made a prior comment here about the fundamental difference between “fauxpen source” licenses like FUTO’s and real FOSS licenses. You seem to characterize it as “stealing code and profiting off it” but the strength of free software is in collaboration and community, not so much competition, so sharing is considered a virtue here. I talked more about it here in a reddit comment referencing my previous lemmy comment.

      This will probably be my last comment on FUTO/Grayjay in this thread, since I’ve said all I intend to say several times here and on reddit. I might make a master post about the problems of fauxpen source at some point.

      • @over_clox
        2•6 months ago

        Interesting to learn some finer grained details of the scene.

        I do actually have my own graphics software projects like halfway open source, but I could only bring myself to share the backend color coding algorithms.

        I can’t bring myself to share the frontend GUI code, as it has to work around many bugs of the language its coded in (RapidQ), and I really ain’t got time to try to explain all the weird fixes to make it work mostly right.

        Anyways, the last version of my project was Color Painter 1.5B

        https://tinyurl.com/colorpainter15b

        I have my own simple license that basically says have fun, do whatever you want, but only for free private personal usage.

        But that was back in 2017, I had no idea that AI systems were about to take over the scene.

        So now I’m like fuckit.

        I just don’t share the GUI code because I had to pull so many jankery tricks that nobody would really understand, partly to fix bugs in the language and partly to remap keyboard shortcuts.

        These days, it hardly matters. If you’re interested in my old project, just hit me up.

        I’m all about free software, but I have my reasons for not tending to share all my code to everyone. It’s rather confusing.