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Changed default Cobalt instance for YouTube compatibility#12

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@kivirnz kivirnz commented Sep 20, 2025

The YouTube function of the main cobalt.tools instance was taken offline a while ago, devs are refusing to fix it.
This fork switches the default one to cobalt.meowing.de which does allow for YouTube downloading.
I know that you can change the default instance in the extension itself, however you can't do so in Firefox, only in Chrome/Chromium

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This changes readme of current repo

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Taureon commented Sep 20, 2025

out of curiosity, why cobalt.meowing.de?

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out of curiosity, why cobalt.meowing.de?

It is the most safe option, https://cobalt.directory/ .

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kivirnz commented Sep 21, 2025

This changes readme of current repo

Yes, it was changed because I provided instructions to install the extension manually, as well as documenting what the fix actually did.

out of curiosity, why cobalt.meowing.de?

cobalt.tools disabled YT downloads, they say it's an error and they don't know what's going on when in reality it's because Google paid them to disable the feature, it's why only community instances still have that feature

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can't merge because it'll change readme of this repo to have useless stuff

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kivirnz commented Sep 21, 2025

can't merge because it'll change readme of this repo to have useless stuff

I'm sorry? What useless stuff is included in there? It's just instructions on how to install it manually as well as credits. It's not great to not wish to fix your now broken code just because the README has changed. I'm happy to the delete the 'This fork was made' paragraph if you wish

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this part:

Original repo made by [dimdenGD](https://github.com/dimdenGD), fix made by [kivir](https://github.com/kivirnz)

(The reason why this fork was made was because you couldn't set the instance manually in the Firefox version, only in the Chrome/Chromium version)

and you also removed link to firefox addons

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kivirnz commented Sep 21, 2025

My apologies, I'll edit that now and add back the Firefox link on the condition that the new update is pushed to it

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kivirnz commented Sep 29, 2025

Hello, is this going to get merged soon? All the requested changes were made

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