I saw this app featured on a YouTube channel and thought it was pretty interesting, especially for GNOME users. However there is a rather weird thing about it: it claims to be using Piped for YouTube but it doesn't get the "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot" error. I guess it uses a different API when Piped gives an error.

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[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Piped has been having problems with it lately. Pretty sure it’s YouTube cracking down on FOSS alternative APIs

[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Why are Piped or Invidious used here or in FreeTube? Aren't they serving the same functions?

[–] scorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

the Flatpak version isn't able to find the playlist/subscription JSON files in the file picker on my system

[–] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Random guess: Install flatseal and use it to give permissions to that folder.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Are you sure that it is indeed using piped or proxy instead of googlevideo.com?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The Gitlab page says it is using Piped and there are mentions of it in the app itself.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago

Yes seems that piped frontends are working again.