Cosmin<p>Today, for the first time, <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> said I couldn't watch a video unless I logged in. In my browser! That always used to work.</p><p>I think we're in trouble. <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/NewPipe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPipe</span></a>, <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LibreTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreTube</span></a>, <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Invidious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Invidious</span></a>, <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ViMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ViMusic</span></a> - none of these can help anymore. Maybe yt-dlp, but that's not always practical, especially for hour-long videos. And even it gets broken every now and then.</p><p>I used YouTube mostly for listening to music. I don't see any replacement for that. If we made a PeerTube instance and started uploading music like folks do on YouTube, we'd get in legal trouble in no time.</p>