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Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by Cider9986 »

nntwozz wrote: post #26

Mandatory shoutout to Invidious: https://invidious.io https://github.com/iv-org/invidious An accessible interface to YouTube content without tracking, using a decentralized network of community-run instances that scrape, rather than API-call, site data. [EDIT] Also Yattee doing the Lord's work: https://github.com/yattee/yattee Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS with Invidious support.

Invidious is great. I quit visiting reddit, twitter, instagram, youtube in favor of frontends and libredirect. Has greatly improved my life because I use these platforms less, but also the peace of mind. Invidious seems to be the least reliable of the bunch of frontends, which makes sense because it is the most bandwith.

At some point I will set up a yt-dlp thing to download the videos I want because the public instance invidious experience recently has not been great. I could also try a self-hosted invidious.

Something interesting is considering the privacy benefits of watching the content on a privacy frontend while sitll talking directly to youtube. Does it prevent the fingerprinting? Does it improve your privacy significantly?

I imagine the shared frontend proxy approach is best for privacy, but is not reliable currently.

photon-reddit.com has been a gamechanger for one specific feature—it lets you recover deleted comments and posts. But, I have found it less reliable than redlib.

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by foruhar »

Hyperbolically, I think it's one of humanity's greatest resources. I can find anything from precision machining, LLM internals, historical footage of WWI, music performances from pretty much any era, and on, and on. There are so many things that I didn't know there was any footage of or that I didn't a single thing about that I find there pretty much daily.

I wish the BBC would publish their whole archive through YT. The few things that they do put up are often so mind expanding whether it's Berty Russel, The Beatles, or some cracking Scottish chap going for a bike ride with a bottle of whisky.

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by tombert »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #108
tombert wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a huge fan of the current price increase, but what I was referring to was what Amazon Prime did about a year ago. Amazon Prime has ads by default now, or you can get rid of the ads if you pay an additional $3 a month. If they start showing some amount of ads on my YouTube Premium, and start charging a fee to get rid of all of them, I think it will just piss me off; I already pay for YouTube Premium, I am not…

I think it is best not to get emotional over a business' marketing decisions. It is simply a change in price, dressed up to be more palatable for people who are not as discerning. Before, Amazon Prime Video without ads was the price of Amazon Prime. Then it became the price of Amazon Prime plus $3 per month. Now it's the price of Amazon Prime plus $5 per month or $46 per year. Same thing with Youtube, or any other pr…

I guess I'm just saying I'm not sure I'm going to put up with another price hike.

I've grown kind of tired of YouTube as of late anyway, and it's not like I get a lot out of it in any kind of deep meaningful sense. I probably could fairly easily justify canceling it and surviving on my blu-rays.

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by Larrikin »

ramesh31 wrote: post #58
rambambram wrote: post #42

Youtube must know better than me what to recommend me out of all the videos... still, I get presented the same shite again and again. To be fair: not everything is shite and Youtube is my favorite social media (especially for discovering new music), but I noticed a big drop in quality videos from one day to the other a couple of years ago. Just opening up Youtube one day and seeing all kinds of thumbnails with people…

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How do I turn on my brain and find a video of an up and coming DJ that makes all their music in another language but mixes it with music that I really like without a recommendation engine showing that people who like similar music to me enjoy them as well?

There's a lot of content on YouTube besides just how to videos and often times top results from a direct search are not always teaching styles that I like.

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by wiether »

foruhar wrote: post #113

Hyperbolically, I think it's one of humanity's greatest resources. I can find anything from precision machining, LLM internals, historical footage of WWI, music performances from pretty much any era, and on, and on. There are so many things that I didn't know there was any footage of or that I didn't a single thing about that I find there pretty much daily. I wish the BBC would publish their whole archive through YT.…

> some cracking Scottish chap going for a bike ride with a bottle of whisky.

I've seen that one!

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by gritspants »

rambambram wrote: post #64
ramesh31 wrote: post #58

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Don't talk to me like that. My post does not invite this kind of reaction. > Turn off the feed and turn on your brain. Don't suggest I don't use my brain, please. For this purpose I built my own feed reader (as part of all kinds of social functions for my website system, link in bio), which I also use to scan for new videos on Youtube's channels that I follow. It works great. Sometimes I want to discover new channels…

Then... why are you using it? I used to get some degree of infotainment out of it but then it became this. Here's an idea: I had a need for some custom metal machining (aluminum). I just looked up some local companies and found a guy who was happy to work it into his shop. I've had some other needs, and just wound up hiring some guys to teach me (stick welding). It's not free, but there is incredible value doing it the old way.

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by yangm97 »

nntwozz wrote: post #26

Mandatory shoutout to Invidious: https://invidious.io https://github.com/iv-org/invidious An accessible interface to YouTube content without tracking, using a decentralized network of community-run instances that scrape, rather than API-call, site data. [EDIT] Also Yattee doing the Lord's work: https://github.com/yattee/yattee Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS with Invidious support.

Have a look at Odysee, it is a decentralized alternative to YouTube, not just a frontend, and some YouTube channels are mirrored there already.

Re: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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Post by esafak »

RobRivera wrote: post #24
busymom0 wrote: post #9

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I often comment on videos but never do I check replies to my comments there.

And so many comments may aswell be bots. >anyone here in CURRENTYEAR >This is scene is so [adjective] Not exactly a forum, more like a concert crowd

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