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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/14909762

It seems YT started another attempt at blocking alternative clients. They changed something in their API and both SmartTube and Tubular (NewPipe fork) are completely broken. Apparently it started happening this past week, but we personally just felt it today.

Edit: SmartTube already has an update but still not working for 4K videos it seems. Tubular still not working but it might be due to the upstream (NewPipe) is still working on a fix.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like most torrents currently... most seeders have lots of HD space and network bandwidth, and are happy to share to the occasional leech as long as the torrents stay alive.

Also there are some mobile clients like libretorrent that can be set to turn on only when plugged in.

[–] ReversalHatchery 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok, but.. hmm. Do you have statistics on the share between desktop and mobile users? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think most browse lemmy from a phone. Most torrents work fine because most torrenters do that on a PC, but relatively very few on a phone. I'm honestly interested if you have some info on that.

In any case, I hope it works out because I would love if it would. Thanks for your work!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are lots of torrent clients for android, even ones like stremio and and a few others that can stream torrent videos.

[–] 2484345508@lemy.lol 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ReversalHatchery 1 points 4 months ago

What happened?