Comment on Youtube ads finally got me

• algorithmae@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the people you watch only upload to YouTube, how would they be available on other services?

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  • ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes obviously there is a problem here exactly like the reddit to lemmy problem. Just another obstacle but thats okay. Probably it is solvable.

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    • baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For video hosting? Good luck, that’s almost certainly never going to happen. There is not one single competitor to Youtube even from corporations, there is no way any decentralised solution will work long term.

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      • BlazingFlames6073@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, not possible as of now imo

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• DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not quite - NewPipe is a YouTube client as well. It’s just that it also support PeerTube (a decentralised video hosting solution).

  For YouTube, NewPipe is an anonymous, ad-blocking client. You can import your current YouTube subscriptions using a Google Takeout dump (the NewPipe app gives you instructions) and you can add more channel subs directly in the app.

  The benefits are no YouTube ads, and it’s privacy-friendly but with channel subs - you’re escaping the algorithm. To get the latter on YouTube directly, you need to login, which means they’re mining your video watching habits.

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  • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For YouTube, NewPipe is an anonymous…

    Not quite. From LibreTube’s GitHub page on their differences:

    With NewPipe, the extraction is done locally on your phone, and all the requests sent towards YouTube/Google are done directly from the network you’re connected to, which doesn’t use a middleman server in between. Therefore, Google can still access information such as the user’s IP address. Aside from that, subscriptions can only be stored locally.

    LibreTube takes this one step further and proxies all requests via Piped (which uses the NewPipeExtractor). This prevents Google servers from accessing your IP address or any other personal data.

    Either way, I use a VPN for both.

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    • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re right - NewPipe isn’t totally anonymous.

      The distinction I was trying to make was that you didn’t have to use a Google/YouTube account. I should’ve made that clearer.

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