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[URGENT] A micro post on why Invidious proxies and NewPipe is not working right now, and methods to workaround this. - Lemmy
lemmy.mlHello! Just a quick update, since all of us use these services, and everyone is
suddenly thrown off. YouTube has introduced a change in layout of videos. Until
now, we could see videos sorted in chronological (ascending or descending)
orders, or popular. Now, we can only see “popular” and “recently uploaded”
sorted videos due to YouTube’s latest change. Invidious proxies (method which
Newpipe uses to fetch video information) only show “oldest”, “newest” and
“popular” sorted videos. The former 2 sorting methods no longer work, which
Invidious proxies show by default. It is unclear why YouTube removed the
chronological sorting, which has always been useful. A conspiratorial guess
being made is that YouTube can remove older videos or videos with no ads or
demonetised channel videos. You can do few things, like: # METHOD 1 For this
method, having https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/
[https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/] on your Android
phone is very handy, because of quick URL string manipulation accessibility.
YouTube provides system playlists with user uploads: you can access them by
taking the channel ID (not the user ID or the handle) (for instance,
UCTwECeGqMZee77BjdoYtI2Q is the channel ID for the channel URL
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTwECeGqMZee77BjdoYtI2Q
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTwECeGqMZee77BjdoYtI2Q]), replacing the first
two characters, UC, by UU, and appending the result to
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list= [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=]
(for my example above, the resulting URL is
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUTwECeGqMZee77BjdoYtI2Q
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUTwECeGqMZee77BjdoYtI2Q]). Then open the
link you get in NewPipe/Invidious This has some limitations (again, yes): you
can’t see the view count and the upload date (these informations are not
returned on playlists), but the first video of the playlist is the most recent
one. However, age-restricted videos are included in these playlists. # METHOD 2
You can use Invidious proxies in web browser, and search your favourite YouTube
channel or content. The first 10-20 search results should have recent videos
listed for relevance. # METHOD 3 Using YouTube.com [http://YouTube.com] and use
boolean operators for chronological search: > exact match [“search term”] >
search terms in the name of the video [intitle:”search term”] > Date: AFTER:YYYY
Only videos after YYYY year > BEFORE: Only videos before YYYY year # CONCLUSION
We could be entering an era of censorship, not by direct deletion of old or
controversial content, but by obscurity and omission of argument tactics.
Looking through older content, or dislikes on videos, is made difficult for
reasons without a doubt. It is not a random change, so make the best of what you
have right now. Times are changing very rapidly.
There is no apt tech sub on Lemmygrad, and this issue is an annoyance to many right now, I believe, especially during downtime.
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