Members-only Videos Changes Since #6437

[tonydero]

#6437 Was implemented to block members-only videos from showing up in the app by hiding the "Members-Only" playlist on channels' home pages. However it seems that since then YouTube may have changed the way members-only videos are handled.

The example shown on #6437 is the Linus Tech Tips channel. As I write this, the current video at the top of the "Videos" list on the Home tab is My Framework Investment Should NOT Have Worked Out, but on the Videos tab there is another video at the top of the list: Pranking Colton by "Promoting" Him. The latter is a member-only video. If you subscribe to Linus Tech Tips in FreeTube, that "Pranking" video is in the feed. No amount of refreshing removes it.

I would have added this all to #6425, but that seems to have been locked because the discussion got too heated. I just wanted to add some evidence to back up a request to have a more robust method of blocking those videos from FreeTube.

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You are probably using v0.23.2. This change is only present in our development branch and will be made available next major release

[tonydero]

Apologies, I did forget to include that I am using v0.23.2 Beta:

[tonydero]

Hm, I did just go back to the Linus Tech Tips channel to double-check this, and the "Members-only Videos" playlist isn't showing on the Home page for me on v0.23.2. Is this a different change that will be coming down the pipe or am I just utterly confused? I guess I'll just be patient for the next update and see if that fixes the issue for me.

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Apologies i missed the fact that this has been implemented since v0.23.0

But the issue you are facing isn't related to the one you linked. Its linked to #6425 which hasn't been implemented yet because we have some difficulties identifying member only content.

I'd recommend that you subscribe to that issue to be up to date on that topic