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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

I've landed on that page a couple of times. I'm just waiting to be blocked.

I almost never watch videos on youtube because I download them and watch them locally. The two things that I use to download them are Downie (Mac) and yt-download (cross platform). This helps me avoid ads unless they are baked into the video. I also like to grab a bunch of content all at once and then watch at my leisure.

[-] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is an interesting way to watch YouTube, and I have some questions about your system around watching the videos.

  1. How do you plan out downloading and watching the videos? Do you download at the time of watching, or do you just download as many videos you like when you get the chance?
  2. What do you do with the videos after watching?
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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.

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[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Fun fact, it seems this ban is IP based. (they're still testing in waves with a subset of overall users)

I switched to a new IP with my VPN, and while still signed in to the same YouTube account on the same video without ever clearing my cache or cookies, the block disappeared.

Genius work from the developers over at YouTube.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

So sad YouTube died, it was such a useful service.

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[-] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 4 months ago

Good joke, YouTube.

Ah yes, but what about the violation to our time where we've had to sit through 30 second ~ 2 minute ads of over-dramatized ways for shitty companies to get us to buy shit we don't want and subscribe to services we don't need? What about those violations and those violations happen more frequently than us blocking your ads? The hell with you.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

Well, then don't go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:

  • creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch
  • disk space to store it
  • bandwidth to send it around the world
  • compute to transcode it and process it
  • real estate and security for the premises
  • power for the datacenter
  • ac to cool the servers
  • wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure
  • wages of devs for the app
  • yes, profits for the company

Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don't act like you are morally entitled to do it.

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