Got an update right now. yt-dlpwork as expected again
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Iâm sure with Google testing their A.I crap it will only be a matter of time before we are back here with crap not working.
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With the current Global Corporation Tyranny, every inch of your life should be under control. Even what, where, when and how you consume.
Good Luck with that.
They will get there. We are just some species on the verge of extinction. I know I sound pessimist but unless I see some serious sign of âgoing against the streamâ from the younger generationsâŚ
Anyways, this can get into subject matters that will cause breach of forum laws.
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A dependency has been created. That could imply consumer dependency (canât give it up), but it could also imply that some things we value canât be got any other way (eg: content creators who only publish to YouTube).
I expect many of us here have our reasons for choosing not to use YouTube proper, and yet, not using it at all is still something difficult to do, because of that dependency.
Now imagine a generation who shares no such qualms, as to @cactuxâs point.
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Yes, you have a point about the dependency.
Honestly, since this thing started happening yesterday and the awkwardness of the workarounds for watching some content, it was also a bit of relief. I spent less time in front of the screen and more time inside my own head.
Yes there are things we value that cannot be get any other way, but I am thinking, speaking for and to myself, that perhaps the time has come for me to reevaluate the things I value, generally speaking and more specifically when it comes to my consumption of content or otherwise.
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Wise words my friend 
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As far as that I am talking only ME. lol. No way the new world will get away with what we have. I donât have apps on my phone I donât have a âsmartâ anything. (well tv but its in the closet unplugged) Even the people I lease from are replacing things with older non smart stuff. (an harder and harder find) Which means there is a market for it so anyone looking to go into business.
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I donât even have a smart phone, I have one of these from 2018:
I do have a no-brand tablet though, for note taking primarily.
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For my use case, the issue I have with grayjay is that it doesnât have proxy support as far as I can tell.
So I would still be downloading videos directly from youtube which is only moderately better from a privacy perspective.
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Right, it doesnât support proxy. Would be a nice feature.
Also, lately I have been thinking of proxychains-ng to proxy mpv/yt-dlp. And I did try it but I wasnât able to make it work. It should be pretty straight forward and I had done it before, quite a long time ago now, but now it just hangs.
yt-dlp has native support for a proxy. It is a command line option, --proxy.
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Ah. I didnât know that. Thatâs great! So it should be possible to run it over proxy and pipe it into mpv. I know it sounds a bit awkward but I am just being curious about the options we have.
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I have never tried that. Let me know if it works. 
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--proxy URL
Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme, e.g. socks5://user:pass@127.0.0.1:1080/
So I tried:
yt-dlp --proxy socks5://user:pass@127.0.0.1:9050 https://youtu.be/EcQi49G-5cI
and it seems to be working as it was painfully slow to download an small size video:
[download] 100% of 23.72MiB in 00:02:08 at 189.18KiB/s
Also for piping it into mpv:
yt-dlp -o - --proxy socks5://user:pass@127.0.0.1:9050 https://youtu.be/EcQi49G-5cI | mpv -
should work. In principle, because I already got:
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However, without --proxy, the following works:
yt-dlp -o - https://youtu.be/EcQi49G-5cI | mpv -
This is what I used yesterday with the addition of the âworkaroundâ mentioned above to stream the videos instead of downloading.
Edit: I can confirm that after restarting the proxy a couple of times, it works as âadvertisedâ 
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Iâve had a pretty rough go with freetube for quite a while now to be honest.
Yeah I think youâre right @dalto, in terms of proxy support. GrayJay desktop has an internal proxy, presumably for routing connectins internally to the various streaming services. This is just how it handles requests internally. Thatâs quite different to the remote proxy I suspect youâre referring to.
A system wide VPN / proxy overcomes this of course, assuming one is happy to use those.
Yeah, I pass my youtube traffic over TOR. I definitely donât want all my traffic going over TOR though.
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that in the output makes me worry
what is up with this big YT crackdown?
Iâve seen this discussed in this thread. you like the program?