I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G/YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.
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#22Does this get around the issue of local ISPs caching the content and then causing the video download to be extremely slow? I've heard there's a way get your browser to always connect directly to YouTube's servers, but I could never get it to work.
It is just youtube embedded plays. The whole thing will not work if a video has disabled embedding.
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#23On my recent trip, I wanted to watch some YouTube videos in the air but there wasn't WiFi on my flight. I found an app called MxTube for iPad and it blew my mind how much cleaner, faster, and more intuitive it was than the REAL YouTube app. Added benefit - You can cache videos for offline playback. I happily paid the $1.99 pro upgrade to support the developer.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube only shows ads in the video right? Looks like those are still being shown.
Nope - they run homepage banners, sidebar ads and occasionally full-page adverts (that hijack the background). It's surreal browsing without Adblock occasionally.
Hmm, interesting. I get sidebar ads occasionally, but I've never noticed the other ones - maybe I just tune them out when I see them. (I use ghostery, but disabled it temporarily for testing this out.)
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#25I love it. With all the horrible and bloated changes they have been making, I thought there would be an opportunity to create simpler version of or alternate of YouTube. I guess you are still using YouTube contents so they can block you if they wish. I still think there is an opportunity to create an alternate video sharing site that's good enough. Good job, though! I will be using your site instead of youtube as lon…
There's also Google's own version of trimmed down youtube: http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta After enabling that I've never looked back. No comments and loads way faster.
This should be more well known. I just enabled it and don't plan on ever looking back.
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#26Does this get around the issue of local ISPs caching the content and then causing the video download to be extremely slow? I've heard there's a way get your browser to always connect directly to YouTube's servers, but I could never get it to work.
It is just youtube embedded plays. The whole thing will not work if a video has disabled embedding.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's also Google's own version of trimmed down youtube: http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta After enabling that I've never looked back. No comments and loads way faster.
This should be more well known. I just enabled it and don't plan on ever looking back.
Until you want to watch a playlist or a channel without choosing each video each time.
Feather Beta doesn't work with the "Play all" links or playlists in general.
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#28https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-cente... is useful, especially fixing buffering and quality.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube only shows ads in the video right? Looks like those are still being shown.
Nope - they run homepage banners, sidebar ads and occasionally full-page adverts (that hijack the background). It's surreal browsing without Adblock occasionally.
Not to mention the ads shown next to original content created by youtube creators earn them a living.
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#30As always, I love sites that strip down YouTube. YouTube houses tons of great content; however, they seem to be making their consumers pretty unhappy. Check out http://www.tubalr.com it's my app and focuses on YouTube's music content. Grats on hitting the front page and I hope you can retain users, its the hardest part about websites like this.
I would use tubalr more often, but whenever I need it, I can't remember what it is called. I've liked you on Facebook, so my usual way of finding it is by going there and finding you amongst my likes.
In other words, you should try to come further up on google searches for "youtube music".