[Feature Request]: Add an option to hide members-only videos

[k0zyrev]

Guidelines

• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the feature request I want to file, without success.
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• This issue contains only one feature request.

Problem Description

It is impossible to view members-only videos without loggin into youtube account which is not going to be implemented any time soon if ever #4232

Proposed Solution

Add an option to hide the videos as long as they are member-only, same way as Freetube is able to hide upcoming premiers.

Alternatives Considered

A more versatile but orders of magnitude more complicated solution is to add the ability to log into youtube account. That way if a video requires authorisation such as member-only or age-restricted video, Freetube could automatically use the credentials to be able to show the video. The user experience provided by Freetube is absolutely exceptional and being able to log in would elevate it even more. Keeping this optional should not affect the people who are concerned with their privacy (and they would have to log into youtube to watch the restricted videos anyway, so what privacy in that case?)

Issue Labels

ease of use improvement, improvement to existing feature, new feature

Additional Information

No response

[absidue]

Your suggested alternative will not be happening, as already mentioned in many other threads we will not be adding the ability to log into a YouTube account to FreeTube. Additionally that by itself that wouldn't even help for members-only videos, as you need to be a member of that channel, so paying a monthly fee to that channel to view the members-only videos and at that point you might as well just stick with the official YouTube clients.

This is the second time you have asked about it, do not ask again.

[k0zyrev]

Alternative is just an alternative, if you didn't like the main proposition. Is the main proposed feature unrealistic?

[absidue]

It depends, how exactly did you manage to get to a members-only video in FreeTube, afaik YouTube doesn't list them on the normal videos tab on channels.

[k0zyrev]

I don't know, I assume the video author mixed up some settings, because the video showed up in my subscriptions/videos feed just like a regular one. It disappeared after a while, and was published the next day. For some reason I assumed this is a new feature same as the premiers, so I decided to create the request. It now looks like it was a one-off occurrence and it's probably just something to keep in mind for the future.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Interesting, could you provide a link to the authors channel and the video in question

[k0zyrev]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw

https://youtu.be/NUgRCBAvyeg

[absidue]

@k0zyrev How many subscriptions do you have in the currently selected profile, it's possible that members-only videos could appear in the RSS feeds (no idea how to test it but it's possible, they definitely don't appear on the channel tabs though)? If they do show up in the RSS feeds we would have no way of identifying them anyway.

[Winterhuman]

I think I saw this issue today as well (and I'm using RSS fetching). I was about to link to two CGP Grey videos that were failing to load for me, which I suspect were members-only videos, but, they aren't appearing anymore; it might be an intermittent issue (or perhaps they were members-only streams?)

EDIT: I'm very certain they were members-only streams now that I think about it, since they had "0 views" despite being around for a while, while normal members-only videos usually don't obscure view info.

[absidue]

Well if they were in the RSS feeds there is nothing we can do about them.

[k0zyrev]

@absidue I'm not using the RSS feeds, local api only. If it was fetching through the RSS, the videos on the subscriptions page wouldn't have the duration, would they? I'm pretty sure the day I've encountered this issue subscriptions page was working as usual.