What Youtube seems not to understand is…they serve at the people’s pleasure. And even more so…they exist BECAUSE people create their product (content).
They’re not too big to fail; they’re just not annoying enough for mass exodus, yet. Classic frog in boiling pot.
Let’s all remember - Youtube is a replaceable commodity. I would make efforts to download / store what videos you find irreplaceable from there (0.5-1T of hard-drive should store roughly 1500-2000, 20-30 minute youtube vids, at 720p@60), streaming them locally and intermingling with other sources.
In fact, I am working on an effort to do just that, by creating a local, SMB backed “channel” in my forked version of SmartTube
You make a good point about downloading… I rarely venture past my subscriptions list, I could just download their videos automatically and watch through Kodi or something
I’ve actual stopped sobbing to channels I want to follow, because I’ve noticed my feed doesn’t really show many of my my subscriptions, but the channels I watch regularly without subbing always have 100% of their new videos at the to0 of my feed.
I find that feed thing unusable, I had to make significant efforts for it to stop showing shorts, premium ads, channels I’m not interested in, AI generated stuff, games (there are games now on youtube…), and it still doesn’t show me anything worth watching. If only they took a page out of tiktoks book - not the shorts page pls
What Youtube seems not to understand is…they serve at the people’s pleasure. And even more so…they exist BECAUSE people create their product (content).
They’re not too big to fail; they’re just not annoying enough for mass exodus, yet. Classic frog in boiling pot.
Let’s all remember - Youtube is a replaceable commodity. I would make efforts to download / store what videos you find irreplaceable from there (0.5-1T of hard-drive should store roughly 1500-2000, 20-30 minute youtube vids, at 720p@60), streaming them locally and intermingling with other sources.
In fact, I am working on an effort to do just that, by creating a local, SMB backed “channel” in my forked version of SmartTube
This reminds me of the guy who uploaded his entire collection of DBZ to PornHub because they could give a rats ass about copyright infringment.
taps temple
BTW, Pornhub requires photoID to access it here now. I checked for uh… science.
I’m sure there’s an equivalent to yt-dlp for it. In fact, I’m sure yt-dlp can do it.
I always check pornhub “for science” ;)
I check it for research articles, myself. While masturbating, obviously.
https://www.deccanherald.com/world/phd-aspirant-to-onlyfans-model-who-is-zara-dar-influencer-whose-career-choice-sparked-a-debate-3330559
https://www.ladn.eu/nouveaux-usages/qui-est-zara-dar-la-prof-qui-fait-reviser-les-mathematiques-sur-pornhub/
Gives a whole new meaning to Myth Busters
You make a good point about downloading… I rarely venture past my subscriptions list, I could just download their videos automatically and watch through Kodi or something
I’ve actual stopped sobbing to channels I want to follow, because I’ve noticed my feed doesn’t really show many of my my subscriptions, but the channels I watch regularly without subbing always have 100% of their new videos at the to0 of my feed.
I find that feed thing unusable, I had to make significant efforts for it to stop showing shorts, premium ads, channels I’m not interested in, AI generated stuff, games (there are games now on youtube…), and it still doesn’t show me anything worth watching. If only they took a page out of tiktoks book - not the shorts page pls
I never see shorts or AI videos, but I get that others aren’t so lucky.
My Dad’s is all AI slop, shorts, and right-wing talking heads.
Exactly. If you don’t go HAM, you can curate a substantial offline YT library in about a month. Use TubeArchivist, yt-dlp or meTube
For those not in the know
https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
https://github.com/alexta69/metube
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
I knew about yt-dlp, was looking at ways to automate that, but apparently that’s done too with the other ones, thanks