Piped not playing videos · Issue #2809 · TeamPiped/Piped
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Official Instance The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related. Describe the bug For some reason the videos dont load and I cant watch piped. I primarily use piped cau...

Most servers are not able to access the Google API.

Invidious report of the same(ish) problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4045#issuecomment-1674373088

It amazes me how entitled these Internet hippies are nowadays. You can’t expect someone to provide such a huge service for free. If you don’t like ads, pay for it. It’s like $5 per month when you pay as a group…

I’d rather Youtube and Google itself be split up under anti-trust laws. I don’t want them to exist.

I’d rather people build smaller video websites for niche subjects so the internet is decentralized to the extent it was when it first started.

Nobody is forcing you to use their services.

Actually they are, because Google controls 90% of the internet, most cell phones while Apple controls the rest and does the same, meaning we consumers don’t get a choice.

We’re just slaves.

Google controls 90% of the internet

Google doesn’t control shit, and you’re referring to the web, not the internet. Nobody forces you to use YouTube, Maps or their search engine. The websites you visit choose to incorporate Google analytics and ads, which you can easily block if you feel enslaved in that sense.

Most people’s phones actually do, especially iPhone users, so that’s not true.

So don’t buy a fucking iPhone or a Google Pixel or whatever, it’s your choice.

Meaning now I cannot use any phone and am now locked out of the modern age.

Your refusal to admit a problem does not remove that problem.

There are plenty of options for running Android distributions free of Google influence.

I would pay if they let me without compromising my anonymity.

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They make enough money off the rubes. They should just let us nerds have this one.

I would pay if

  1. Google promised not collect any data but now you would pay and have your data collected.

  2. I just want load my subscription feed and they are all there not hidden away.

  3. Hid shorts or have them on separate tab.

  4. Bonus would be if related videos where acutely related videos in time span. Not the mess they are now.

Also why would I have to pay YouTube music? I don’t want that.

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