De-googling, so far
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De-googling, so far
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#3> I think Nebula.tv is promising, and a bunch of creators I like upload their videos on it. I do have a Nebula account but rarely end up using it, since most videos get uploaded to YouTube as well, and when I open Nebula, I find myself having already watched all the interesting videos on YouTube.
I've just gotten in the habit of opening up Nebula first and only then switching to YouTube when there's nothing new there. Even if you do this only once every few days it's usually enough, because a lot of creators upload to Nebula a week before they do YouTube.
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#4I liked duckduckgo a couple years ago before it started insisting on showing results in the language associated to my IP address. Since then I've liked brave a lot better.
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#5The only thing irreplaceable for me is Youtube. Even if it's gotten worse as a platform over time, I still consume it more than any other type of video media and there are no good alternatives for much of the content that I enjoy watching.
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#6+1 for Nebula [0]. It's a great streaming service, and while the author primarily watches YouTube, and goes to Nebula occasionally, I do the opposite.
I use it as my primary source for news (TLDR Daily), and watch content from creators such as RealLifeLore and Half As Interesting, among many others.
Because of that, I rarely open YouTube, and even then I use SmartTube [1] on my Chromecast which gives a great experience.
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#7> I think Nebula.tv is promising, and a bunch of creators I like upload their videos on it. I do have a Nebula account but rarely end up using it, since most videos get uploaded to YouTube as well, and when I open Nebula, I find myself having already watched all the interesting videos on YouTube. I've just gotten in the habit of opening up Nebula first and only then switching to YouTube when there's nothing new there…
Sadly none of my 'creators' are on nebula; But one thing worth trying if you do want to avoid going to youtube -- just have some cronjobs running yt-dlp every few hours on each channel you're interested in on YouTube, served up with a little auto index httpd via Tailscale -- makes for a pretty nice experience.
(Seems to be limited to 1080p, but I don't really care about the quality of those videos tbh).
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#8I liked duckduckgo a couple years ago before it started insisting on showing results in the language associated to my IP address. Since then I've liked brave a lot better.
If you're using the DDG Web site, and a bookmark, can you force the language in the bookmark?
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#9I “de-reddited” with HN.
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#10The only thing irreplaceable for me is Youtube. Even if it's gotten worse as a platform over time, I still consume it more than any other type of video media and there are no good alternatives for much of the content that I enjoy watching.
The good news is that none of the content you care about is Google's. As soon as someone else provides a space for content creators to move to you can get rid of Youtube and never miss a single thing about it. Google has successfully pissed off enough youtubers that they're just waiting for the first chance to jump ship, just like we are as watchers.
In the meantime, try to give as little as you can to Google. Use Newpipe and youtube-dl so you never see an ad.