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Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by seomint »

ALittleLight wrote: post #35
thrwn_frthr_awy wrote: post #7

This 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…

I put together this website over the past three or four days partly as a response to the same feeling. https://stumblingon.com But also because I was bored and googled for the old StumbleUpon and was surprised to discover it no longer seems to exist. Basically my goal here is to find a bunch of weird, random, and unique sites and give people a way to randomly explore or adventure through them.

I miss StumbleUpon. It was a fun way for discovering unique out-of-the-way sites. One could lose oneself for hours much in the same way people do now on Reddit. It's a shame it's gone.

Thanks for taking the time and putting together your site.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by nine_k »

chii wrote: post #22
m463 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At first I agreed with you - imagining walmart coming into town and bankrupting the mom-and-pop stores. But can't folks still create their own websites and upload their own content for cheap? domain name, virtual server, upload? (don't know about monetization)

>But can't folks still create their own websites and upload their own content for cheap? because of the network effect. Users end up flocking to the bigger platform and thus never even find out about the mon&pop store webpage with interesting content (not to mention the monetization is non-existent there).

They can use YouTube as a storefront window to reach the audience.

But it may be not completely prudent to use YouTube as the only place your videos are available. Through the same videos, it is possible to constantly advertise the other sources of one's videos.

The problem, of course, is monetization, or lack thereof outside YouTube.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by buboard »

thrwn_frthr_awy wrote: post #7

This 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…

Why don't they come back through some p2p technology?

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by ColanR »

myself248 wrote: post #38
kawfey wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's only a matter of time. When LPL gets ousted, I'm going wherever he's going.

I feel like I should youtube-dl a bunch of my favorite channels right now...

I've been doing that for a while.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by herpderperator »

kipchak wrote: post #46

I hate how removed videos don't retain a title. It's one thing for a video to be taken down, it's another to see a mystery box taunting me from my favorites playlist. What forbidden knowledge (cat video) is forever lost to time?

Depending on how long ago it was removed, if you Google the YouTube video ID, you may find the title in the search results.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by ericdykstra »

YouTube doesn't seem to be interested in hosting any content that isn't manufactured from a giant media corporation or just vapid clickbait entertainment. Just take a look at the trending tab to see what YouTube wants to promote: http://youtube.com/trending

It's worth noting that "Trending" is curated by YouTube itself, and is not an algorithmically determined set of videos.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by jkoberg »

otakucode wrote: post #28
iroeo0nd wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does YT have a quantifiable monopoly it abuses in an economic sense? Or of your attention? I find a lot of similar content as text & video not hosted on YT via DDG search The content is still out there. Google chose not to host it on their servers.

>Does YT have a quantifiable monopoly it abuses in an economic sense? I really don't see how YouTube could be seen as anything but anticompetitive in many of its practices. Primarily, the fact that they have used and continue to use revenue driven by search from Google to maintain the tremendous infrastructure necessary to run YouTube. This means that anyone who wishes to compete with YouTube needs to be able to find…

The US government can't put MP4 files on a web server?

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by jkoberg »

nerfhammer wrote: post #23
thrwn_frthr_awy wrote: post #7

This 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…

it's the discovery. anyone can still put a video somewhere else. it's just that it's pointless putting it somewhere where it's hard to discover if you also want monetization.

Maybe it's that the primary discovery mechanism is YouTube's parent company? hmmmm
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