Comment on What fresh fuckery is this?

serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone. Except for links from Lemmy.

  If this bullshit is/becomes a thing for every YouTube video, I’m gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy 🤬

  Agreed on Peertube btw.

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i got NewPipe set as default, so links from Lemmy open there instead of the YT app

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I finally managed to do that too, so there’s that 🖕 to Google. And then the specific video hit me with the dreaded “not available in your country” bullshit 🤦

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      • Bilbo_Haggins@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thank you for letting me know this was a thing!! Total game-changer.

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  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?

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    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default “YouTube” app, all links will be open in that

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    • 314xel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      UntrackMe, does’t open an app, but redirects to a chosen Invidious instance. I use farside.link/invidious which chooses a random instance closer to you.

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Alternatively, just use the share link on any function, and route it to the appropriate app. In this case, share a Youtube Link to the official app or to NewPipe.

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    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not necessary, apps can register to open links from specific domains.

      The only caveat is that if they don’t also own the domain - like Google owns both youtube.com and the YouTube Android app - you have to manually go to the settings for the app in System Settings and enable them, under ‘Open by default’.

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    • serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a similar thing already written, minus the automatic part. You set it as your default browser and lets you do all sorts of things to the link before opening it in a browser. It lets you choose which app to use the link in afterwards. You can unshort urls, it checks for malware or redirects… You get the picture. Not sure if this helps with what you are after:

      f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

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  • tacofox@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    • 1000 for SmartTube!! I finally side-loaded uYou for my iphone and last time I used my android tablet I was able to update reVanced but thats been forever ago.

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• Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing places, Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and Peertube

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.

    By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Shit, if anything anybody popular would be costing themselves money through hosting.

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.

      By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income

      Plus, those other platforms don’t have an audience.

      Even Odysee, which has been around for several years, I only get 10s of views compared to the 3000-5000 that I get on youtube.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They’re just down out by the fascists.

    Problem is:

    Peertube doesn’t pay

    You have to pay for the backup/storage of your videos.

    PT will have massive scaling pains.

    Yt spends a lot of that advertising money hosting non profitable videos for free.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes!I couldn’t agree more on all that if I tried 🫶

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