• Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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      12 days ago

      FreeTube has significantly more features, so there’s not much reason to switch either way.

      On my phone I have to use a NewPipe fork in order to get SponsorBlock working.

      A sync feature between FreeTube and NewPipe would be appreciated though.

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      12 days ago

      Freetube on desktop Linux hasn’t worked for me for a long time - but that doesn’t seem to be the case for most people. Any tips regarding settings? I’d say it’s been at least 3 or 4 months since I could reliably use it.

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        12 days ago

        If you have it set to use the Invidious backend that might be the issue, since most Invidious instances don’t work at the moment.

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          12 days ago

          Thank you! I actually tried setting the invidious options yesterday before making that post, thinking I might need to use that instead of localapi. But as you have predicted, no dice.

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          It launches for me (and I am in a plasma-wayland session FWIW), and it loads the thumbnails for all videos with no problem. When I click a video as if to play it, it appears to load up the main page for that video complete with play button, but nothing at all happens when I click the play button. Along the way are various api errors from youtube, but I think some of those came in even when things were working for me.

          Basically I can get this far for any video: