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Re: FixYT

#101

Post by dylangs1030 »

rmc wrote: post #97
nashequilibrium wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sign me up, i want youtube to be killed dead!!!! Youtube is cool but google jumps in and just ruins your experience. They asked me 4 time before to adjust my name and i chose my current username....4 times. Now, for the last two weeks i have been getting this pop again but now i must apparently sign up for G+, when i try and comment, guess what that fu popup again, i cannot comment unless i join G+.I have been just c…

So all you have to do is start a tech company that does this. When Google knock on your doors, with literally one and half billion dollars of Google stock, you have to say "No". Would you do that? Could you blame anyone else for doing that?

I couldn't do it, but Snapchat's CEO turned down a cool $3 billion.

It can be done.

Re: FixYT

#102

Post by mgkimsal »

syllogism wrote: post #77
mgkimsal wrote: post #75

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but hey, fixyt themselves don't store the info, so... i guess it's fine, right? i'm getting a little tired of the 'privacy backlash' from many quarters, as I don't really get what people are after. piggybacking on youtube, which needs to generate revenue and does so by relevant ads... just strikes me as juvenile. You want "privacy" but you also want the fruits of non-private endeavors? Too bad. Build an entire video…

The big privacy concern with YT is that your viewing history will be displayed to your friends and acquaintances, attached to your real name. People can say, "Don't be ridiculous! They would never!", but Google is so utterly tone-deaf to user concerns that people, myself included, just can't rule it out. And it makes us angry. Think back to Buzz: suddenly, you could view all of your contacts' contacts!! That's the le…

Then that should be specifically highlighted as a concern and a fix.

I don't even know what people mean by 'privacy' anymore - it means so many things to different people. A friend of mine started a 'social network focused on privacy'. Except that when you signed up, your details were available to anyone else who'd signed up - they could browse all existing members. Was that 'private'? I complained and he's changed the behavior, but the point is his notion of 'privacy' was apparently radically different than mine.

Re: FixYT

#103

Post by InclinedPlane »

bowlofpetunias wrote: post #59

It's shocking that only now I realize just how incredibly bad YouTube has become.

It's a consequence of google's empire-itis. If they view youtube in the mold of their major business they see they can spend most of their effort working on the technical problems, slap some ads on it, and then call it a day. Even though this might provide a good platform for many people to host videos and is probably revenue positive or at worst neutral for google, nevertheless it doesn't do much to advance an entire new industry.

In many ways youtube would be better without google. The technological problems would be more severe and a bigger challenge, but such a youtube would likely be smarter about finding ways to better monetize content and to pass on that monetization to creators (to create a virtual cycle of new content, and so forth). As it stands now youtube barely acknowledges creators as anything more than any other ordinary users of the site.

Re: FixYT

#104

Post by skore »

bschwarz wrote: post #100
skore wrote: post #98

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Pro Tip: Just use github pages to instantly give people a demo. All you need for that is to make a gh-pages branch and rename your main file to index.html.

Thanks, that's a good idea. This would eliminate the need to download anything and make it usable from mobile without any additional steps!

Indeed! Did the same for my own youtube thingie: https://github.com/daviddeutsch/yt-sanegrid/

Re: FixYT

#106

Post by Kequc »

nashequilibrium wrote: post #74
zokier wrote: post #21

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.

Sign me up, i want youtube to be killed dead!!!! Youtube is cool but google jumps in and just ruins your experience. They asked me 4 time before to adjust my name and i chose my current username....4 times. Now, for the last two weeks i have been getting this pop again but now i must apparently sign up for G+, when i try and comment, guess what that fu popup again, i cannot comment unless i join G+.I have been just c…

Youtube is a social product and Google+ is a (vastly better) social product. Of course Google is merging them. Google has multiple social services and merges them together. You have multiple Google accounts and... oh. You... don't merge them together. In fact you fight it every day for years. No kidding that at this point, by the time the change has stopped giving you leeway that you're frustrated your protest has stacked up to nothing.

In fact if you merge your Google accounts your protest isn't lost either. Your protest has been and is nothing. It's just in your head. Merge your Google accounts and use Google's social product or don't. If you wanted to protest Google why didn't you just stop using it? Or stop using it now?

Re: FixYT

#107

Post by rocky1138 »

I thought about doing something similar a few years ago but gave up after reading in their TOS that in order for embedding to be allowed, the page cannot be specifically about the video but instead must simply use the video to enhance the original content on the page.

Re: FixYT

#108

Post by cenhyperion »

dylangs1030 wrote: post #101
rmc wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So all you have to do is start a tech company that does this. When Google knock on your doors, with literally one and half billion dollars of Google stock, you have to say "No". Would you do that? Could you blame anyone else for doing that?

I couldn't do it, but Snapchat's CEO turned down a cool $3 billion. It can be done.

>Snapchat's CEO turned down a cool $3 billion

Because word is he's getting offers for over $4 billion

Re: FixYT

#109

Post by ams6110 »

nashequilibrium wrote: post #74
zokier wrote: post #21

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.

Sign me up, i want youtube to be killed dead!!!! Youtube is cool but google jumps in and just ruins your experience. They asked me 4 time before to adjust my name and i chose my current username....4 times. Now, for the last two weeks i have been getting this pop again but now i must apparently sign up for G+, when i try and comment, guess what that fu popup again, i cannot comment unless i join G+.I have been just c…

I use incognito mode to use anything Google. You log in with your chosen identity and aren't nagged about merging any others.

Re: FixYT

#110

Post by dirkk0 »

cenhyperion wrote: post #108
dylangs1030 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I couldn't do it, but Snapchat's CEO turned down a cool $3 billion. It can be done.

>Snapchat's CEO turned down a cool $3 billion Because word is he's getting offers for over $4 billion

And next week somebody will post that Apple offers $5 billion.
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