That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.
Oh look, youtube is doing the same bullshit as TikTok.
Guess Congress are going to have to ban YouTube unless Google sells it, then 🤷
They’re already talking about breaking up Google/Alphabet
I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google’s desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to “sign in to confirm you are not a robot”. I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.
Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing instances. Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and some Peertube instance.
Edit: replaced a word with “instance” and added word “instance”
There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They’re just drown out by the fascists.
Problem is:
Peertube doesn’t pay
You have to pay for the backup/storage of your videos.
PT will have massive scaling pains.
Yt spends a lot of that advertising money hosting non profitable videos for free.
Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.
By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income
I use SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone. Except for links from Lemmy.
If this bullshit is/becomes a thing for every YouTube video, I’m gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy 🤬
Agreed on Peertube btw.
I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?
You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default “YouTube” app, all links will be open in that
Another attempt at blocking ad blockers
we need an adblockers blockers blocker
uBlock
deleted by creator
Everyone here is like “use this” “use that” which is great but the immediate solution is
switch to desktop mode
You’re welcome
Yt won’t let you use your web browser anymore? Why
So you’ll download their spyware.
Finally a post that isn’t about politics
Don’t worry, it’ll let up after
November 4th,December 1st,January 6th,January 20th, Second Appomattox.
Piped and Invidious
okay but what do we do about backing up the massive library of content that only exists on youtube? how do we back that shit up, so when they break those, it is’t all lost forever?
You
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Distinguishing
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I’ve always asked “what does that ever mean?” Now, thsi answers my question
Well that might just completely kill YouTube on mobile for me. The only way to watch on my phone without their ads.
I am slowly switching back to podcasts, it is only question of time when yt quality goes bellow usability, they are dancing around that thin line like with search.
Use Odysee ffs.
I’m not a Nazi
Would using Odysee turn you into one?
Yes
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I’m OOTL here. Are we talking about a video hosting site that happens to have cringe on it?
Odysee and Rumble are the platforms that wackjobs (like flat earthers) have flocked to in the past year or so.
Those platforms aren’t promoting that content per se, it’s just that such content isn’t moderated like on YouTube and Facebook. And before you say “but there’s tons of that stuff on YouTube and Facebook already!” it doesn’t compare.
I believe that. Like Gab, right? The scum sinks to the bottom.
If I understand correctly, I think I side with the people saying use it anyway. Video hosting is hard, and YouTube is more enshittified every day.
If Odysee wasn’t filled with so much racist, misinformed, crypto-slinging bullshit, maybe normal people would actually use it. Right now, the best solution is joining someone’s patreon.
If Odysee wasn’t filled with so much racist, misinformed, crypto-slinging bullshit
Deal with it. Otherwise you’ll take every single monopolistic abuse from Google, and you’ll just complain and keep using it
I’ve gone out of my way to make a cracked .IPA of YouTube (basic adocker + sponserblock + Downloader) for my phone to not have to deal with there stuff and it’s held out so far. Just hope it keeps doing so
Is there a website or resource that describes this in more detail? First I’ve ever heard of a cracked .IPA
it’s a version of Uyou that you can find on GitHub. Tells you how, though you have to do a bit of the compiling yourself
ReVanced, Grayjay, Newpipe
