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2023-10-26 09:46 from IGnatius T FoobarJust use an Invidious instance like yewtu.be. Problem solved.
The thing that keeps me coming back to "real" YouTube is the feed. I
know it's heavily manipulated, but the curation of videos I might like
to watch is actually pretty useful.
What we really need is an independent curator that indexes videos
across both YouTube and other sites.
There is a guy working on an open source mobile application that does that.
Many Invidious instances have their own lists of Trending and Popular videos if you just want to browse some stuff at random.
2023-10-26 10:42 from Nurb432
For me its more about subscriptions, so i see what is new from
them. I dont really use the 'suggested feed' much as in my case its
way off ( especially for music. once in a while its right, but most
of the time they get it way wrong )
Invidious instances also support subscriptions, but not all of them.
So far the daily game of whack-a-mole is being won by uBO, so im not having to ditch things.. Yet.
And YT-DLP is still working. ( man, i wish i had made that simple GUI for it long ago.. no more starting a venv, typing bla bla, then more typing. now its copy/paste, push button and wait )
https://oleksis.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/
Cross-platform front-end in wxPython
from the big list still at https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/wiki/info-guis
The new Louis Rossman and co all-in-one app is GrayJay:
I'm still not entirely clear on the "sovereign identity" aspect which so far comes across like a vague sort-of-blockchain, sort-of-decentralized.
wow. YT changed the anti-blocker algorithm mid video a bit ago.. Actually kicked me out. ( and no, there was no embedded ad in the video )
I want to see my feed suggest other videos to watch, and I want to see that feed contain videos from everywhere, not just from the site on which I watched the last video.
The objective, of course, is to break YouTube's monopoly on non-controversial videos.
Hmm so i wasn't even able to recover my mothers legit account on FB, yet spam bots create them constantly. Today on YT, one single video had at least 1000 bots.. The only comments were the spam bot. its insane. Not that i normally read comments, but it has a key word in them and caused me to notice )
How the hell do they create these things?
2023-11-15 13:56 from IGnatius T Foobar
Invidious/PeerTube etc. are a good start. The desirable end game would
be to have a site that indexes all of YouTube, all of Rumble, etc. as
well as smaller sites, and could curate recommendations for the viewer
with the same level of quality that YouTube itself does. Or perhaps as
well as YouTube *did* before it became opinionated.
I want to see my feed suggest other videos to watch, and I want to see
that feed contain videos from everywhere, not just from the site on
which I watched the last video.
The objective, of course, is to break YouTube's monopoly on
non-controversial videos.
You are gonna LOVE this.
There is an open-source (non-free) Android application designed to just merge all the videos you want to watch in a single place.
The idea is that if you like darknetuser's horse videos, you use the application to subscribe to darknetuser and the application fetches feeds from all the usual players (Youtube, Rumble, Bitchute, wherever). It also supports personal websites, so if darknetuser has horse videos in his site, they will be collected too.
The idea is that if Youtube kicks darknetuser out, you will still be finding his stuff in the same place you ever did.
Could do that with YT-DLP too.. As long as you dont delete the original files a regularly scheduled cron/whatever job to download their channel would result in new ones being added to the folder. And it does work in places like Rumble too.
Just a random thought early in the morning, being 1/2 asleep...
They way i'm reading this, early next year google is going to in effect remove the ability for *any* plugin to block ads as it restricts what a plugin can 'see', including what is needed to detect ads. Of course its under the excuse of security. but we all know why they are doing it.
Source - > https://www.pcmag.com/news/rip-ublock-origin-google-proceeds-with-plan-to-shake-up-chrome-extensions
Sounds like my days of general web use is about over. Sure, there is Firefox, for now. I do expect Google to infiltrate the web enough with 'extras' that unless you use their engine, you dont function. And of course any chromium engine based browsers will be off the table too.
I'm also glad my career is slowly winding down. I'm really sick of this industry. I wonder if WWIII will knock us back decades and we get to start fresh.. nah, who am i kidding, it will only make it worse.
But. Cat videos??
Sat Nov 18 2023 10:36:43 EST from nonservatorThe Web needs killing, so I hope it dies as quickly as possible.
[Accelerationism intensifies] No more half-measures. They want to kill what's left of the Internet? Okay, fine. Do it, faggots. No skin off my ass. And then what?
Most people will just put up with the ads. they do now.
Sat Nov 18 2023 14:03:18 EST from nonservator[Accelerationism intensifies] No more half-measures. They want to kill what's left of the Internet? Okay, fine. Do it, faggots. No skin off my ass. And then what?
A heap occurs when you add the 149th grain of sand to a tiny pile. I've done it.
Sat Nov 18 2023 18:44:11 EST from nonservatorHow many grains of sand do you have to have before it's a heap?
2023-11-18 09:02 from Nurb432
They way i'm reading this, early next year google is going to in
effect remove the ability for *any* plugin to block ads as it
restricts what a plugin can 'see', including what is needed to detect
ads. Of course its under the excuse of security. but we all know
why they are doing it.
I have been recommending running LAN-wide adblockers for a long time so you don't need to depend on browser's capabilities.