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YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by swarnie »

bdcravens wrote: post #160

I recently noticed that a channel I subscribed completely gave up. She used to have a lot of reselling and business content, and even had an Amazon Liquidations storefront, etc. Now all that's gone, and she's showing typical rage bait BS, like Walmart shoplifters getting caught and the like, and every video she's wearing low-cut tops to get extra cleavage out there. I have no doubt she's getting more engagement than…

At that point just pivot to a MindGeek video service, their pay per 1k views is significantly better than Youtube.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by bdcravens »

swarnie wrote: post #161
bdcravens wrote: post #160

I recently noticed that a channel I subscribed completely gave up. She used to have a lot of reselling and business content, and even had an Amazon Liquidations storefront, etc. Now all that's gone, and she's showing typical rage bait BS, like Walmart shoplifters getting caught and the like, and every video she's wearing low-cut tops to get extra cleavage out there. I have no doubt she's getting more engagement than…

At that point just pivot to a MindGeek video service, their pay per 1k views is significantly better than Youtube.

She already had a decent following and a channel that was several years old, and I assume that played a large part in her initial content pivot success. I assume most of her original followers would be annoyed and eventually unsubscribed, but honestly, I didn't notice her shift for a while (looks like her last legit business content was about six months ago)

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by leptons »

ryandrake wrote: post #82
ssl-3 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why so much? Plex is a pretty light-weight system as long as transcoding is avoided or it has hardware transcoding available to use. And wrangling Usenet is a fairly simple affair on vaguely modern PC hardware, too. So all of that stuff runs in the background on the same desktop Linux box that I also use for everything else. Am I doing it wrong?

As "lightweight" as it is, you don't even need Plex or a "media server" software. My "media server" has been "files on an NFS share" which has worked for me for the last 15-20 years.

SMB share is the minimum viable. Plex on an android TV device is a lot better. Access to all the media with a simple remote has been a great experience.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by rcxdude »

malshe wrote: post #142
speak_plainly wrote: post #24

There was a time when the algorithm was truly amazing and the recommendations were smart, spot-on, and mostly high quality. I don't know what happened but you have to search now for decent content. The recommendations part of YouTube just seems to give me old content or will show me things I've already watched. Despite it feeling almost user-hostile, I still use Youtube,

YT has a bad tendency for over-recommending. I watch one video about stock market and my next ten videos are about stock picking from random guys. I also immediately get advertisements for crypto platforms! The only time I appreciate over-recommendations is when I search for old standup videos of Dave Attell, George Carlin, and others and it suggests more of these gems.

I recommend turning off the watch history. It means the only recommendations you get are related to the video you're currently watching. It's not perfect but it's a lot better.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by trymas »

INTPenis wrote: post #7

In my circle, piracy is making a comeback. We're tired of having to hunt down streaming services, and be extorted for hundreds of euro a month, just to see ads for their own programs. Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.

Also some streaming services are not available at some countries or only sold as some bundles with only particular ISPs or cable providers in that country.

Hence you cannot buy it legally even if you wished (to change your ISP).

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by pjmlp »

INTPenis wrote: post #7

In my circle, piracy is making a comeback. We're tired of having to hunt down streaming services, and be extorted for hundreds of euro a month, just to see ads for their own programs. Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.

I rather keep myself to a single service, I don't suffer from FOMO, do not need to see everything.

If ads get too much, then I just shut it off, books don't have ads, and the local library has enough audio books and DVDs to keep me busy on rainy weekends.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by fsflover »

ssl-3 wrote: post #94
CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People use separate computers for wide range of reasons. My desktop isn't always running Linux for example, or even from the same partition always, and to run something 24/7 I need to host it not on my for-work desktop. I also run some less trusted software on separate server and network than say Home Assistant and Frigate.

Sure, I suppose. And I do have a separate computer for HA, because I consider it part of the house.in a way that is simply deserving of (cheap!) dedicated hardware. But most of my multi-os stuff happens with VMs these days. After I spent a few years successfully running Windows as my primary desktop OS, as a virtual machine (with its own dedicated CPU cores and accessories like GPU), the lines between separate comput…

> most of my multi-os stuff happens with VMs these days

Sounds like you could be interested in Qubes OS, which runs everything in VMs by default with an amazing UI. (My daily driver.)

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by listenallyall »

INTPenis wrote: post #7

In my circle, piracy is making a comeback. We're tired of having to hunt down streaming services, and be extorted for hundreds of euro a month, just to see ads for their own programs. Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.

I think the explanation is less about greed and more that ad-supported programming is almost always the only viable economic model. Cable worked brilliantly because everybody paid for a full range of channels, sure YOU only watched about 8 of them but other people had a totally different 8. Some channels survived many many years without earning any subscriber fees, just getting the distribution was enough and the ads paid the bills.

Anyone thinking that paid streaming subscriptions could entirely replace ad-supported for the long-term, never really thought it all through in my opinion.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by lm28469 »

My youtube experience:

- open video

- 2 unskippable ads

- click somewhere in the video to skip the creator's sponsor section (more ads)

- 2 more unskippable ads

- video plays, the original audio was automagically replaced by a dogshit 1995 tier "ai" dub

- it's not the part I wanted to see, click somewhere else

- 2 more unskippable ads

At that point I spent 5 minutes watching ads and forgot why I came here...

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by walthamstow »

estimator7292 wrote: post #128
CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Even if you subscribed to them all you'd still not have everything And even if you could get all the video itself, it's not guaranteed you'd get the right video+audio+subtitles combination that you want, as everything seems to be negotiated separately. So while one service could offer the right audio and the right video but not the subtitles you want, another service could have the right video and the right subtitl…

Man, jellyfin is shockingly absolutely killer for subtitles. I don't remember if it's a plugin or built in, but there's a subtitle search option that cross-references your video's filename into some database that usually gives you a workable set of subs. Plus it respects your options to default subs on or off, in a language you choose, in a style you like to see. I don't think any streaming services do it this well h…

Plex also has this
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