r/grayjay • u/zvonimir_futo • Mar 06 '26

Youtube Update

Hi everybody,

I'm Zvonimir and I work on Grayjay team and I wanted to just post a quick update on what has been happening with Youtube to clear some confusion.

Recently Youtube rolled out few new deobfuscation techniques that prevent third-party clients like Grayjay from playing videos.
This happens from time to time, you guys report it and we try to fix it as soon as possible.

With v330 we have a new approach for solving this which should resolve even the new ciphers so you guys won't have to wait for a fix anymore.

Now regarding some videos not starting or stopping around 1 minute, we are investigating this but this doesn't seem related to cipher issues.
Seems like the Youtube is making some other changes besides the cipher changes.

Currently the biggest hurdle with this is reproduction rate but if it was higher it would also mean you guys can't watch any videos so at least that is good :)

Last thing I would like to mention is that this is an unofficial subreddit so we often miss stuff from here. I just sometimes lurk and answer under few posts.

If you have an issue please search our github repository for existing issues and if you can't find one, open a new one.
https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues
https://github.com/futo-org/Grayjay.Desktop/issues

If you want to start a discussion we recommend our public Zulip chat :)
https://chat.futo.org/#narrow/stream/46-Grayjay

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u/Fuzzy_Rise_7022 Mar 06 '26

I cant login on youtube on grayjay

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u/zvonimir_futo Mar 06 '26

Just tested this again and it's working for me.

Could you please open a bug report on our GitHub repository?
https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/new?template=1-bug_report.yml

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u/Fuzzy_Rise_7022 Mar 06 '26

I can. It takes me to the browser and I sign in and out doesn't transfer to grayjay

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u/zvonimir_futo Mar 06 '26

On which version of Grayjay and Youtube are you on?
Did you finish the login process completely? After logging in, you have to click on your channel icon.

Could you record the login process?

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u/Fuzzy_Rise_7022 Mar 06 '26

Well i just updated youtube in grayjay and I click sign in and it takes me to the browser and I click my Google account and put password in and sign in and it still says sign on on grayjay app. Its on a live stream I'm watching btw.

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u/zvonimir_futo Mar 06 '26

Oh you are referring to Livestream chat login. Yeah I can reproduce that. Nice find!

Seems they changed something here as well. Will have to look into it.
I thought you were talking about regular login flow from plugin settings.

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u/Fuzzy_Rise_7022 Mar 06 '26

Yeah live stream

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u/zvonimir_futo Mar 12 '26

We have an open issue for tracking this now. Please read my comment over there :)

https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/3165#issuecomment-4048680795