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Skip browsing YouTube use RSS feeds of the podcasters you like. Also use Firefox and the uBlock Origin plugin.
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Submitted 4 months ago by stalhaus@lemmings.world to technology@beehaw.org
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furrowsofar@beehaw.org 4 months ago
ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Use an app like Freetube to deny them ads entirely.
millie@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Nebula is a decent way to be bad at youtube. They don’t have too many people on it at the moment, but there are some decent ones. And at least they get a cut.
jan75@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I like the idea and even subscribed for a time, but their videos just kept buffering for me whereas YouTube is fine even at 1440p :( I’d love to support them and their content creators, but i’m not paying for a product that doesn’t work.
Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 4 months ago
is there anyway I could be more disruptive to the business model?
By not using the platform. You think you’re being clever but all you’re doing is making them more money.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Browse the site as usual, but never watch any videos. Instead, download them at maximum resolution. You’ll skip all the adds, and require the maxim amount of bandwidth.
The business stays profitable as long as people watch ads and don’t use bandwidth anywhere near as much as you could.
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Sounds like you are not being bad for the website, but for the advertisers, picking the most paying ones to sponsor your video watching time.
You might be slightly worse to the website, if instead of Atlanta, you were to travel around and decided to skip all the ads from a place where it’s barely economical for them:
Engywuck@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Stop sharing YT videos, for a starter. For every shitty YT video there are thousands of good blogs explaining things in the same way (or better).
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Do the same thing, but on a device that allows blocking ads entirely.
Corgana@startrek.website 4 months ago
Engywuck@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I don’t use it and plainly ignore its existence. As simple as that.
thejevans@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I self-host an invidious instance and combine that with sponsorblock. I only ever see the videos from channels I am subscribed to unless I explicitly search for something.
yt-dlp is a good tool for downloading youtube, and there are several GUI frontends built around that
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Me similar. I do not use Invidious anymore (and it was not self hosted anyway), because YouTube often breaks it. But I use FreeTube a local account only (no Google) and it comes with SponsorBlock builtin. And I also mostly watch videos I am subscribed to. And I have my own CLI frontend in the terminal for yt-dlp: yt-dlp-lemon, which makes it a bit easier to use the features I care about. (Sorry for the shameless plug.)
thejevans@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
to put the “youtube often breaks it” into perspective. In the last 6 months, I’ve lost access to youtube for a total of 8 days, with the longest continuous downtime being 3 days. selfhosting it works fine, for the most part.