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Post by mistercheph »

acdha wrote: post #397
mistercheph wrote: post #376

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I will write down my ethical obligation to Google on a piece of paper and wipe my arse with it. The only ethical obligation that exists is on American legislators and regulators to bring down the hammer of justice, smashing Alphabet and co-conspirators into one hundred thousand grains of sand and blow them into the wind. And thanks for the life advice acdha, but I'm quite happy to continue 'stealing' every single sec…

Hey, it’s your life. I’m just asking people to be honest about what they’re doing. That said, if you really think we’d be better off without YouTube I’m not sure how giving them your support and attention is going to get you closer to that goal.

It's not my goal, and I'm not sure what yours is in this passive-aggressive commenting style that you employ.

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Post by _h9mb »

philistine wrote: post #286
thaumasiotes wrote: post #269

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Youtube-dl (well, yt-dlp, the non-dead version) will ignore the ads.

yeah but how do you setup a one-stop-shop solution to download the new videos from channels you follow?

I add all videos that I want to watch to a playlist and then run a script on my machine to download the videos. It will only download each video once as it keep tracks of downloaded videos through the file downloaded.txt so you can delete/move them freely. You can also add the script to a systemd timer or cron so to automate it.

This is the script: https://github.com/danisztls/yt-assistant. AFAIK the same can be done with a single line yt-dlp command and you can do the same to download all videos from a channel.

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Post by erinnh »

jamaicahest wrote: post #416
erinnh wrote: post #324

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Personally, I use Tubearchivist. There are others though. https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

> For minimal system requirements, the Tube Archivist stack needs around 2GB of available memory for a small testing setup and around 4GB of available memory for a mid to large sized installation. Minimal with dual core with 4 threads, better quad core plus. This project requires docker. Ensure it is installed and running on your system. What the hell. Is this an entire OS?

Its an archive solution.

So it uses redis and elastic search in the backend.

It definitely isnt lightweight, but I like its interface the best out of all solutions.

Re: Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

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Post by graftak »

paulcole wrote: post #361
graftak wrote: post #338

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That would be a fine argument of Google did not own the long-form general topic diy online video space. Since they do and there are no alternatives they can suck it until they (if ever) improve their business practices.

The alternatives are to not watch it, watch it under their terms, or do something you’re not supposed to do because you’ve convinced yourself that you’re right.

I’m under no obligation to watch ads and may filter network traffic onto my network however I deem fit.

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Post by mkka »

jpk2f2 wrote: post #339
_huayra_ wrote: post #14

Maybe it's just A/B testing, but I got the "3 strikes and no more video playback" thing, which this DOM element blocking doesn't work around it seems :( After years of procrastinating, I'm finally gonna get around to setting up a basic homelab to run pihole. Thanks, youtube execs and bean counters, for kicking my lazy ass into gear on this! In a way, I kinda wish that ads worked as well as youtube suggestions. If one…

Swapped to Brave browser finally, it worked out of box to block YouTube adblock-blocker.

Yesterday at least. Same for me initially but now not so much. Time will tell. Current process is to disable the blockers then refresh until the video is served without an add, usually after two or three times, then re-enable.

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Post by mkka »

TerrifiedMouse wrote: post #121

I think the only "happy ending for everyone" if Google is going to ban ad-blockers for YouTube is if they make the ads less annoying. What makes YouTube's ads annoying: - the number of them 2 ads at the start is way too much. 1 max. Middle of video ads should be content creator controlled. - the ads they choose to show Google showing me the same few very annoying (to me) ads and gives me no option to avoid those spec…

Pre-video ads should be 10% or less of the video length, floor at 30 seconds or so. Insane to get a long add on short video.

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

Thorrez wrote: post #305
depereo wrote: post #262

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I had Red through my google play music subscription but then they turned music into a YouTube nonsense app that removed features I liked and tripled the costs. I'd subscribe to YouTube premium if it didn't bundle a music subscription and associated cost.

>tripled the costs. According to this article, when Youtube red was introduced in October 2015, it was $9.99/month. It's now $13.99/month. That's a 40% increase. If you adjust $9.99 in October 2015 for inflation to September 2023, it's $12.93/month. So inflation-adjusted, the price increased 8.2% from 2015 to now. https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/21/9566973/youtube-red-ad-f... https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?…

I’m still grandfathered into my $7.99 per month plan. They did not raise the cost for existing subscribers. Which is the only reason I still subscribe. Google Music went away and YouTube Music is a mess so now I use Apple Music. I would not pay full price for YouTube premium but for $8 a month I can kind of justify keeping it. I kind of want to cancel it since I don’t actually use YouTube very often, but I know I’ll never be able to get back my grandfathered $8/month plan so I don’t cancel it. Yay loss aversion.

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Post by Thorrez »

justinclift wrote: post #407
Thorrez wrote: post #402

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It wound up this way because Youtubers want more money than AdSense and Premium can give them. They earn a lot more from sponsorships than AdSense and Premium. Are you suggesting that Youtube squeeze out more money per view than it's currently doing? How do you suggest doing this? I guess one way would be to block people from using adblockers...

Are you suggesting that Youtube is trustworthy, and creators shouldn't diversify their income sources?

I'm not saying creators shouldn't diversity their income streams. My first comment in this chain was pointing out that Youtube isn't urging creators to embed sponsorships, which copperx seemed to think Youtube was doing.

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Post by justinclift »

Thorrez wrote: post #428
justinclift wrote: post #407

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you suggesting that Youtube is trustworthy, and creators shouldn't diversify their income sources?

I'm not saying creators shouldn't diversity their income streams. My first comment in this chain was pointing out that Youtube isn't urging creators to embed sponsorships, which copperx seemed to think Youtube was doing.

Youtube is widely known to demonetise videos and outright kill established channels based upon spurious inputs / phase of moon / etc. The recent Russell Brand stuff easily springs to mind, as does abuse of the Content ID three strikes policy by bad actors.

If the creators need their income to be resilient to demonetisation, they're forced to use options outside the Youtube system. Sponsorships, etc.

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Post by paulcole »

graftak wrote: post #424
paulcole wrote: post #361

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The alternatives are to not watch it, watch it under their terms, or do something you’re not supposed to do because you’ve convinced yourself that you’re right.

I’m under no obligation to watch ads and may filter network traffic onto my network however I deem fit.

Whatever makes you feel good about yourself.
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