I’m watching Freetube right now, still working. v0.23.3

I was just saying to use the which command to make sure you had installed the scan key tool in addition to installing the driver. Looks like you did, but it’s not detecting the device (otherwise the -l option would have listed it).

I have a Brother printer/scanner and have looked at their website for the drivers, but never bothered to download or install them since I haven’t needed them (so far).

If you got no output from those commands, maybe they did not get installed? Try entering the command

which brscan-skey

and it should tell you the path to where it is installed, or return no output if it is not installed.

I see on the page you linked there is the link to the scanner driver and there is also a link to the Scan Key Tool that it says allows scanning by pressing the button. Did you also install that?

The external player thing has never worked for me, at least when I set it to VLC, which just displays an error. I must be missing something.

Edit: thanks for the replies, next time I’ll try mpv and/or haruna

It’s happening to me, too. No VPN. They always fix issues like this pretty quickly (couple days or so). It’s always a constant battle to handle youtube’s ongoing attempts to block them.