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

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Post by freehorse »

nickthegreek wrote: post #64
ss64 wrote: post #54

"wanted to get back my chronological feed, instead of a "algorithmically curated" one" The 'Subscriptions' link at the top left of the Youtube home page only shows the things you subscribed to, just bookmark that.

Along with so many shorts. So many. Going from Smarttube back to the official app and it just plain sucks.

I use the "unhook" extension which let's you remove recommendations, set your youtube home page to your subscriptions (chronologically ordered videos), block shorts and more (you can cherrypick the features you want). Highly recommended. I would have paid for youtube premium if I was given these options, honestly.

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

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Post by ivoputzer »

freehorse wrote: post #78
yimby2001 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

it's a nice side-effect though.

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

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Post by Gigachad »

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.

Agreed. Youtube downloaders are essential for backup purposes and for getting clips to put in your own videos as fair use. But people turning them in to fully user facing ad free frontends are driving the crackdown on the tools so we will end up with no way at all to download videos..

Would be nice if Youtube just let premium users download the actual video files. What I find interesting is how so many of the Chinese social media platforms just let you download videos while western tech companies pretty much universally block it.

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

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Post by Gigachad »

jjulius wrote: post #79
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.

I'd say it's less people's fault and more Google's for driving people to want something like it.

Yes, people prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it. That's not a very interesting insight.

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

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Post by freehorse »

new_user_final wrote: post #52

tip: Disable YouTube history and go to subscription page for chronological ordered videos. No more "algorithmically curated" videos in YouTube home page.

Why disable youtube history? I have it enabled, and my subscription page works fine.

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

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

tredre3 wrote: post #75
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

"already allowed to download youtube videos"

Sure, but it is not users that ultimately make that policy choice, and may be rescinded at any time. Thus, still seems lame...

Most streaming platforms have fragile resolution fail-back thresholds, and rightfully discourage camping on CDN host connections for 10 times longer than most of the users.

These days the amount of media data people consume in a year will be disproportionately larger than the capacity of any information appliance. i.e. not paying for the service would still mean a fortune in offline storage devices.

DRM still sucks, ask any library or historian. But I do respect your opinion, as it could seem true for some. =3

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

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Post by modmodmod »

PaulKeeble wrote: post #26

Can you make either a hub.docker or ghcr.io premade image so that people can just pull the image and run it and automate the updates? Its pretty standard practice in the self hosting world and if you don't do it a lot of people will not install it. People have 40-50 odd services installed, managing it via git updates just isn't going to happen.

Done

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

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Post by freehorse »

Gigachad wrote: post #85
jjulius wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say it's less people's fault and more Google's for driving people to want something like it.

Yes, people prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it. That's not a very interesting insight.

There is no way to pay google to get features like these or like what yt-dlp offers. If there was I would have gladly paid.

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

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Post by tmpz22 »

siavosh wrote: post #46
tmpz22 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I view Discovery as a social problem where the content you want is almost always clustered between a relatively small number of creators, regions, etc. Technically it then becomes less of an indexing everything problem and more of a find a few cornerstone creators, say Khan academy, and occasionally branching out. So to answer your question I don’t thing the cost/benefit for automating discovery is much better then s…

There’s a lot of truth to this but one of the most powerful elements of a discovery algorithm is finding things you completely did not look for, ie Christopher Columbus and the western continents. Like your cornerstones are iOS and recipe videos but you discover the right dance video and it changes your whole life.

> you discover the right dance video and it changes your whole life

You're going to have to explain this one, how would a dance video change my life? Being exposed to something new that becomes profoundly life changing seems like a romanticized notion and not a realistic one especially within a monetized environment.

We're exposed to new stuff everyday, just because .0001% is truly impactful doesn't justify watching 100_000 short reels of ads, even if Google and Facebook REALLY want us to.

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