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Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by tomcooks »

Bayart wrote: post #88
jszymborski wrote: post #59

I've been consuming my YouTube videos via RSS and youtube-dl these days. I have a little python script that collects the video urls from the feed, downloads them, and then NewsBlur notifies me of the new videos. NewsBlur has become the way I find new academic papers (arXiv/journal RSS feeds), consume the news, webcomics, and YouTube videos.

That reminds me of Stallman browsing the web with wget and cat hahaha.

This solution offers total automation, filtering and allowing perusal of the content in the same way it was presented in the first place

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by omarroth »

foray1010 wrote: post #28

maximum resolution in Invidious is 720p even 1080p is supported when goes to youtube. Are there some technical limitations?

You can watch 1080p if you set "dash" as your default quality in preferences, or by adding `&quality=dash` to the end of a video URL. The reason it isn't enabled by default is that it requires proxying streams, which is more bandwidth intensive[0].

0. https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues/34

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by eeZah7Ux »

MrGilbert wrote: post #16
cameronbrown wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. Source: I watch YouTube. In all seriousness you hear creators talking about collapsing revenues due to adblockers all the time. Bigger ones survive with tools like Patreon but if you're new with only a small fan base? ( Artists will always create content, but they will always need to eat too.

> Artists will always create content, but they will always need to eat too. So do devs, which is quite often neglected when talking about open source. It often goes along the "well, then do it in your spare time"-line. Maybe there is a huge gap between expectations and what we, as people, can actually do. There are a few who can make a living off of their channel, but you shouldn't start a youtube channel today, expe…

> "well, then do it in your spare time"

Or, get paid to do FLOSS. (paid, not donations)

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by rchaud »

ekianjo wrote: post #45
user0191 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It written right ther: > Terminations and Suspensions by YouTube for Cause > YouTube may suspend or terminate your access, your Google account, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service The question is why we still don't believe it even when it's written in black and white?

What is there to terminate if you browse Youtube without signing in?

It may not apply to this particular implementation, but users who've downloaded alternative YT clients (which offer ad-free experiences, or playback while the screen is off) an Android devices, may have their Google account flagged, even if the apps were sideloaded.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by soylentcola »

fidla wrote: post #25

Not available yet on Android?

I use YouTube Vanced on Android. It's essentially a modded YouTube that you can install alongside the real one without issues (it doesn't replace the standard app).

https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-yout...

https://www.xda-developers.com/youtube-vanced-apk/

Aside from a few additional options and interface tweaks, the main reason I use it is for playback with the screen off.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

ekianjo wrote: post #45
user0191 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It written right ther: > Terminations and Suspensions by YouTube for Cause > YouTube may suspend or terminate your access, your Google account, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service The question is why we still don't believe it even when it's written in black and white?

What is there to terminate if you browse Youtube without signing in?

I block doubleclick and randomly get a degraded YouTube page with no content outside the video box rendered. It also goobers up the browser history so you can't go to previous videos.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

trickstra wrote: post #80
desdiv wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When regular users visit youtube.com, they get a page with some videos on it. Regardless of whether they're logged in or not, there are videos there. Banned users visiting youtube.com will just get a text page[0] with zero video content. Google will use all the dirty tracking tricks to make sure that banned users remain banned even when their IP or device changes. [0] https://i.imgur.com/qTTGhhG.png

Incognito window, different browser, clear cookies... any of these will make you look like a new user to youtube. Just don't sign in of course.

I stopped signing in when they broke Gmail on Firefox. Now I just use Chromium as my mail browser and everything else is on my secure browser.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by user234683 »

vanderZwan wrote: post #15

How many alternative YT front-ends are out there? I remember https://toogl.es/

Newpipe (app for android): https://newpipe.schabi.org/

mps-youtube (terminal-only): https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

youtube-viewer: https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer

FreeTube (which uses the invidious API): https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

youtube-local (my project): https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local

smtube: https://www.smtube.org/

Minitube: https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube, https://github.com/flaviotordini/minitube

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