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Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by samtheDamned »

jv22222 wrote: post #70

This is monetizable for parents (or at least, highly needed). YouTube is terrible for child behavior as there are so many pranks and people screaming etc (in kids content) but there are a select few YouTubers who are really good for kids. For example our 10yo does well with: ZebraGamer, Half Asleep Chris, Mark Rober, Brick Experiment Channel, Ants Canada, etc. We have it locked down via safe app but it would be great…

Monetizing this would put YT-DLP in danger of having legal action taken against it, or at least being shut down.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by jdpedrie »

jv22222 wrote: post #70

This is monetizable for parents (or at least, highly needed). YouTube is terrible for child behavior as there are so many pranks and people screaming etc (in kids content) but there are a select few YouTubers who are really good for kids. For example our 10yo does well with: ZebraGamer, Half Asleep Chris, Mark Rober, Brick Experiment Channel, Ants Canada, etc. We have it locked down via safe app but it would be great…

What is “safe app”? Too generic to be googleable.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by jv22222 »

jdpedrie wrote: post #72
jv22222 wrote: post #70

This is monetizable for parents (or at least, highly needed). YouTube is terrible for child behavior as there are so many pranks and people screaming etc (in kids content) but there are a select few YouTubers who are really good for kids. For example our 10yo does well with: ZebraGamer, Half Asleep Chris, Mark Rober, Brick Experiment Channel, Ants Canada, etc. We have it locked down via safe app but it would be great…

What is “safe app”? Too generic to be googleable.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/safe-vision-kids-for-youtube/i...

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by charcircuit »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #48
greggyb wrote: post #28

A question for the author or anyone else who has experience in similar solutions. Is there any good solution for discovering new content? Much of the time, I want to stick to my subscriptions, but I do enjoy content surfaced by the algorithm at least once weekly, sometimes more often. My concern in taking my viewing off-platform is twofold: 1) going to YouTube will prompt me with all the stuff I've already watched of…

If you were to have something local build you an algorithm, what signal would you want it to consume and how far from the median would you want it to deviate? Would you want it to use signal from online socials?

Why limit it to local? You could use the API for the YouTube recommendations. You already are using the YouTube API for the videos themselves.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by tredre3 »

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #9
yoyohello13 wrote: post #3

Shhh! We are going to have to fork it again if too many people find out.

Indeed, those with ridiculously slow broadband networks won't ever get 4k content again. DRM was.. and still is dumb... as it collectively punishes paying customers. While ContentID is sometimes abused by brazen scammers, it is a better solution given the majority of content is still served off the YT platform. =3

> DRM was.. and still is dumb... as it collectively punishes paying customers.

Maybe it's true in other contexts, but users of such frontend likely are not paying for youtube and they're also not paying with their eyes (ads) so the DRM here is working as intended...

Also paying customers are already allowed to download youtube videos (granted they can't watch it outside of youtube but it still counters your broadband claim).

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by toomuchtodo »

charcircuit wrote: post #74
toomuchtodo wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you were to have something local build you an algorithm, what signal would you want it to consume and how far from the median would you want it to deviate? Would you want it to use signal from online socials?

Why limit it to local? You could use the API for the YouTube recommendations. You already are using the YouTube API for the videos themselves.

Certainly, ingest all the signal you’d like, and then emit a feed for clients to consume (or to be republished). Could run locally, could run in a container, could run on an AT protocol PDS. It is an algorithm/discovery/recommendation sovereignty play.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by freehorse »

yimby2001 wrote: post #77
tracerbulletx wrote: post #68

I kind of wish people would stop making yt-dlp more accessible and increasing Google's desire to shut it down.

do you feel the same about ad blockers?

Ad blockers are basically about blocking ads. Yt-dlp has also uses whose main purpose is not about blocking ads.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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Post by zozbot234 »

tracerbulletx wrote: post #68

I kind of wish people would stop making yt-dlp more accessible and increasing Google's desire to shut it down.

If they shut down yt-dlp for good, a lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor. A tool like yt-dlp is very much required if you want to engage professionally with that kind of community. Even something as trivial as making a well-produced "video reaction" relies on it.

Yes, YT has good monetization, but it still pays peanuts to the average creator. So the competitive threat is very real - superstars alone wouldn't be enough to make for a really compelling platform.

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