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

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Post by MrDrMcCoy »

Gander5739 wrote: post #109
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.

And Morphe ( https://morphe.software ) on Android.

I prefer Grayjay (https://grayjay.app). Hacking existing apps is super weird to me.

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

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Post by MrDrMcCoy »

dmbche wrote: post #84
rickcarlino wrote: post #28

My biggest concern about Youtube is that they do not truly have a competitor. They just raised premium prices again making it one of my most expensive entertainment subscriptions.

Newpipe and freepipe!

Or Grayjay. I find it crashes a lot less than the *pipe apps. https://grayjay.app

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Post by MrDrMcCoy »

m6z wrote: post #128

Love it or hate, it is better than what traditional broadcast television has become. Cannot even watch a TV channel on the television nowadays. It is all just advertisements, sometimes stretching past 5 minutes. Even with youtube advertising more, it is not as painful as watching any kind of show or movie on a television.

The ad frequency and lack of variety is bad enough, but streaming services have gotten very lazy with choosing when to play them. Sometimes an entire show plays them 5 seconds ahead of the clear fade to black for the break, then plays the fade as soon as the commercials are over. Yarr.

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Post by MrDrMcCoy »

saltyoldman wrote: post #183

40+ers Who here thought Google was nuts in 2006 for buying them? (raises hand)

I'm just under 40 and thought it was super weird when they bought YouTube. They already had Google Videos, which offered higher quality and was more reliable for me than YouTube, DailyMotion, or Vimeo at the time. Why they didn't just improve the discoverability and UX of what they already had was completely beyond me.

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Post by charcircuit »

charcircuit wrote: post #172
Clamchop wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Demonetized videos show fewer or no ads. It's something they implemented because advertisers don't want to be associated with some kinds of content.

I think at this point all videos have ads. Demonized videos not having ads hasn't been a thing for what feels like years.

Demonetized

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Post by viewtransform »

dbcurtis wrote: post #207
kang wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was in pre-tiktok world(push to regular content update) & before the purge. A lot of content is now gone. Its a great resource but very loosely coupled with humanity/human knowledge (and arguably a pretty poor resource for it, both theoretically (linear information with contant velocity such as video) and practically (the content just isn't there on youtube, search is truncated etc.)). > I didn't a single thing ab…

> Rarely(never?) have I found new knowledge on youtube, however its a great source of joy/emotions/slop. I suspect you are not looking very hard. I have learned a tremendous amount about everything from stone cutting to metalworking to welding to Kalman filters to linear algebra. There is a lot out there. The main annoyance I have is keeping AI slop out of my feed so that I can instead learn from genuine experts. The…

Appending 'before:2024' to your search term works on YouTube and gives results from the pre-slopocine era.

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Post by dyauspitr »

lairv wrote: post #217
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.…

Worth noting that most of youtube videos can no longer be discovered through search. Search results can now only be sorted by "Relevance" and "Popularity" while you used to be able to sort by release date Search results are also non-exhaustive and biased towards recent videos as noted in this study https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727 Basically many videos can no longer be discovered if you don't have a url to the video…

The non exhaustive thing is annoying as hell. You might as well delete old videos because there’s no way to get to them if you don’t remember the link. I used to be able to find this video I took in college 20 years ago. There’s just no way for me to get to it anymore.
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