I think it is most likely Youtube’s end as well. They’re trying to suck every penny of ad revenue from every site and I’m sure VRC was something they thought was a considerable leak. Same with Discord. Whether that’s true or not isn’t something I know, but it is what it is.
Are you intending to share it and/or make it available in one form or another? From your description however it sounds like “every user” has to install your app. What do you think the odds of that happening are?
It is a common sentiment but you can easily see how sucking ad revenue isn’t a major part of the problem. How? I’m playing YT videos in my world now as are many, many others. There are no ads, there are no glitches.
There are no problems at the moment with native Quest and PCVR works when one enters a URL into the URL input field. What didn’t work were redirects and from what I was able to deduce that is all that changed.
So if greed or ad revenue is driving the change it isn’t working.
Apologies, I did post the GitHub link to it before but the mods flagged it as spam/advertising since the posts were so similar (which is obvious since there’s 15 different topics all about this same error lol.) Updated my previous post.
There isn’t anything to install, you just throw a shortcut to it in VRCX’s auto launch folder and it does everything on its own. :>
Thanks. As for “install” even copying a file is a form of installation. My point is that someone visiting VRC would need to stop playing, download the file and place it (trusting you) on their PC.
It is definitely an alternative for those people having issues. It remains to see how many people go through the effort.
And if someone who is having issues has tried out this solution perhaps they would be so kind as to let us know if it solved the problem.