YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos
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#2youtube-dl is your friend.
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#3That’s really sad! Censoring informative content should never be part of any corporate strategy, especially in countries having freedom in their constitution.
Have a look at PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org) if you don’t know it yet.
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#4Well YouTube's actions is really unsurprising given that they have made it more unclear on which videos meet their Terms of Service. If that wasn't enough, creators also complained about 'The Algorithm' scanning their videos to demonetize or take down videos for the same reason.
At this point, It is worth looking at other alternatives such as Bitchute, PeerTube, etc with Patreon support to avoid this senseless behaviour that YouTube is doing to its creators.
If they can do it to creators with crazy conspiracy theorist videos or creators who have political opinion videos, YouTube can do it to anyone.
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#6youtube-dl is your friend.
While I agree with the sentiment, that's not really what this is about. Youtube-dl does nothing for videos already taken down, nor does it help content creators.
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#7This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for content creators to be fairly compensated, but I will still miss it.
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#8This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…
Maybe it's the wrong mindset, but imo compensation is precisely why the internet stopped being like that. When people are doing things for free, there is generally a maximum to the amount of effort they will put into things.
They might try to make something look nice and be slick for the end user, but they won't usually hire people or use big studios.
This contributed to a culture where the very best people in the field are making things that any user could also go away and do themselves easily, which led to creativity.
Nowadays the best people get money, and lots of it, which leads to their production becoming better and better, which leads to a better product, but less innovation.
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#9This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…
Maybe it's the wrong mindset, but imo compensation is precisely why the internet stopped being like that. When people are doing things for free, there is generally a maximum to the amount of effort they will put into things. They might try to make something look nice and be slick for the end user, but they won't usually hire people or use big studios. This contributed to a culture where the very best people in the fi…
> which leads to their production becoming better and better, which leads to a better product, but less innovation.
"Better" in the sense that they are more polished and edited, but unfortunately that means more filtered, targeted and biased. There is an intrinsic, authentic value in raw productions that gets lost or doesn't exist in the former.
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#10Time to mirror and self host your channel. Check out my open source package iSpooge Live on GitHub... it’s git a script to download, HLS encode for 3 playback rates, and generate a static site that’s all tuned for a CDN. Been using it for over a year myself.