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DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have degoogled but YT is the only thing I’m stuck with. The monopoly is too much to overcome.

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  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Freetube + Invidious

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For me freetube usually only works about 30% of the time.

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      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Depending on your configuration, your experience will differ greatly.

        As mentioned in another comment I made, Freetube relies heavily on either directly connecting to YouTube’s API or proxying through an Invidious instance, perhaps try a different Invidious instance?

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    • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use Freetube, what does Invidious do?

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      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There are two ways of using Freetube, either with YouTube’s APi or with Invidious’s APi.

        When using YouTube’s APi you won’t get the same ad-blocking and proxying benefits compared to Invidious’s API.

        One bonus of using Invidious is that your traffic is combined with everyone else’s who use that same instance, for example if you use inv.nadeko.net your traffic will be masked along side everyone else’s who happens to use that same instance.

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re on mobile, check out the Greyjay app. It’s promoted (sponsored?) by Louise Rossman

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    • Justifier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Apparently there was some fallout with futo and him

      Not sure at all about the details, but yeah he definitely backed them. Not sure if he still does though

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      • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think he just left to go work on fulu, no bad blood as far as i’m concerned. Anyways grayjay is pretty good, and when the new newpipe comes out that might be an even better choice maybe (but who knows when that’ll be?? Tell me).

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    • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is that only on android?

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      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ya, there’s no way Apple would allow it in their app store

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Creating an infrastructure that could potentially ingest terrabytes of data per second, and then processing it into multiple resolutions, is a massive ask.

    Especially for a new site that might not ever get picked up by users, much less creators.

    I think the only people that have a hope in hell of having a success at starting a youtube competitor are the owners of the big porn sites, since they are in a similar, if much smaller than youtube business with regards to infrastructure demands and processing needs. . So they have the institutional knowledge and infrastructural inertia to get started easier than anyone else on the planet. assuming they want to do a SFW video site, which they may not want to do.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      is a massive ask.

      No, it’s not. It’s a massive request. When you punch out and leave the car lot, be sure to use regular English.

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      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a fairly common phrase. Language can change and have regional differences. This isn’t Quebec defending their weird version of French as the only “correct” way to speak.

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      • crater2150@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What’s “regular English”? Only words you personally know? www.oed.com/dictionary/ask_n1?tab=meaning_and_use

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    • tristynalxander@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Creating an infrastructure that could potentially ingest terrabytes of data per second, and then processing it into multiple resolutions, is a massive ask.

      Yeah, but that’s a bad approach.

      A website that just hosts links, a torrent to video script, and a like-button that’s a magnetic link is all you need to set up a youtube competitor. The creators can host their own videos, and their fans can help them. Sure there’s a lot of quality of life stuff that integrating a torrent client and browser would help with like automatically using file selection to host only the resolutions you watch up to, but the underlying system is functional. For steaming, do whatever peertube is doing.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, every time the topic comes up, this same idea comes up of making individuals bear the financial burden of hosting and bandwidth, without an ounce of understanding how that will never, ever, create a viable youtube alternative.

        And once those problems come up, someone will have the great idea of gathering people into collectives to lower the prices and increase bargaining power.

        Then after that someone will have the idea of reducing costs by moving their individual videos into the same rack, so the costs of hardware, storage, maintenance go down and stability and uptime goes up.

        and before long you arrive back at a youtube like platform, and you’ve just become the equivalent of techbro reinventing the concept of a train for the 380th time.

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    • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wasn’t there some professor that started uploading actual educational non-porn lectures on pornhub a while back?

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think I know who you are talking about, I recall seeing something about her making more money posting on pornhub than youtube because of greater advertising sharing or something.

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      • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Afaik pornhub actually pays way more than YouTube. There are also lots of people uploading SFW content to the hub.

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    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but hosting your self isn’t that big a deal depending on your host. At least until you get into the millions of views.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We’re talking about youtube competition, self hosting isnt ever going to compete with youtube.

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    • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, you could just switch to porn exclusively.

      Hey, maybe that was the plan all along! I just wanted to understand how to fix my car or watch cat videos and now I’m watching a video where some lady is stuffing herself full of, well, everything.

      Big porn wins again dammit!

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just quit watching it a few months ago. No big deal, it’s all crap and mindless shit anyways.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s all crap and mindless shit anyways.

      If you click on mindless shit, the algorithm serves you mindless shit. I get documentaries. 🤷

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        you know who else has documentaries?

        PBS.

        support your local public broadcasting stations, people.

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      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I just avoid algorithms. If I want documentaries there are places for those.

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  • LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Use a VPN in Albania. No signin, no ads, its great

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• plutopos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I tried using Konqueror, but Cloudflare websites (like WineHQ) would verification loop me

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• trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doesn’t yt-dlp still work? Could go that route, then just delete the video if you don’t want it afterwards

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