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

#91

What I've wanted for a while now is a browser extension that adds a button on youtube video pages, where you click on it and it does yt-dlp downloading but saves it to something like ipfs and posts it to some free video site for indexing. Basically, there should be a video indexing/search/discovery protocol (don't care if it's still http) where random people can submit metadata and a link to a distributed content-add…

Write a script to call yt-dlp command with url in clipboard on ipfs server

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

#93

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

My take is: its either there with all of its features and popularity or its not. The argument that it will be taken down if its more popular seems to me fundamenally wrong.

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

#94

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

so, essentially, what you are saying is that yt-dlp should have never been open-sourced/published and ever posted on HN (so that not even you would have found out about it)?

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

#96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can pay for YouTube Premium and get no ads.

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

#97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can pay for YouTube Premium and get no ads.

I am not talking about ads (specifically), but about all the control that these tools offer.

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

#98

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 peanu…

> lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor.

Not so sure, since everything is monetized nowadays (YouTuber make video to earn money) and the audience is there, i don't see how they could move anywhere.

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

#99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can pay for YouTube Premium and get no ads.

That's not true, there are still lots of ads that you'll have to sit through. They're just not out there by Google, they're out their by the video creator.

Which, I get it, YouTube isn't paying them enough and they gotta eat. So, it kind of feels like YouTube letting them post their own ads is an intentional choice on YouTube's part to not give me the service I'm paying for.

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

#100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 peanu…

> lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor. Not so sure, since everything is monetized nowadays (YouTuber make video to earn money) and the audience is there, i don't see how they could move anywhere.

The interesting question is whether YT as a platform pays enough to make this a relevant factor. Which I very much doubt is the case for most creators.
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