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I mentioned this in another thread but YouTube feather (beta) is pretty much this. It strips down everything but the video and the recommendations on the side. Also it is an official Google feature.
I 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…
just kidding, great job
I use a browser plugin that strips down the actual site to a minimal version http://www.clea.nr It's by far the best solution I've found since it stays out of the way, and when I click on a Youtube link the page is much nicer.
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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.
It's nice but if you ever even appear to cut into their ad model they'll shut ya down. Gotta pay the engineers, other employees, electric bill etc.... youtube ain't free ;) EDIT: I really like the site & hope you flesh it out. Just not getting my hopes up too high. :)
Redisplaying YouTube content on other websites is explicitly allowed. Ads run in the embedded player, which they made easily available and usable on purpose. What is NOT allowed, as far as I know, is using their API and player to make a website that does nothing but show YouTube content.
Both this and Youtube's own Feather beta seem to lack support for playlists. I like playlists for listening to music at work, for example Brad Neely's "America, Now" videos ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPQrXUpvkuc&list=PLD8217FD2EE... ). Also useful for watching web series like Marble Hornets. I love a simpler experience, but I think content creators will want playlists.
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.
The fact that YT provides an API is plenty to reface it. You should view this website as another from of protest. Which of there have been plenty of protests in recent.
It's not wrong, just a different one.