Piped.video wants me to sign in to verify I’m not a bot, but there is no sign in button anywhere. Sad to see a good website fail so badly at the most basic thing.

  • Splashy5928@lemmus.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I thought this was an error given by YouTube to the instances for rate-limiting or something? I usually just swap to another instance in settings and its fixed.

  • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 months ago

    Piped should build out better error messages so that users know this is a problem with Piped getting the video from YouTube.

  • Kory@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 months ago

    Invidious is facing the same problem, there’s issues on both Githubs since June.

  • Max Günther@lemmy.todayDeutsch
    1·
    2 months ago

    As others have already said that, this is caused by Google/YouTube, not Piped. (They should make that more obvious.) Try another instance (Preferences -> Instance) until it works. The official kavin.rocks/kavin.rocks (libre) seem to be blocked by YouTube more often than other instances. The smaller the instance, the better (probably).

    • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
      4·
      2 months ago

      Its not piped’s fault, it is an arms race between google and projects that block ads.

      • dan1101@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah Smarttube has quit working several times lately and they have released updates. Google is messing with things.