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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This article is pretty much an ad for Youtube Premium

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Came here to say this

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google are trying their best to make YouTube unusable. They’re about to succeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Guess i'll download all of my medias and put them on a hard drive

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when newpipe stops working I'll stop using YouTube 😂 maybe my life will be better, who knows

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There was a different article earlier today and they were speaking about stuff like ReVanced and API access. Since new pipe has not agreed to the APIs terms and services, that means they should be safe

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

"Finally"? Barf.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I pay for YouTube premium but still use Revanced since the regular app sucks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You know what doesn't suck?

  • Freetube on PC
  • Libretube on Android
  • SmartTube on AndroidTV

I like revanced, but these are cooler :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

same but with newpipe

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If only there weren't trying to make YouTube less usable. Currently if I listen to podcasts on YT and take a break, in a few hours it can completely forget that I was watching it, it'll be gone from my watch history. This is so frustrating with 2-3 hours long videos.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Youtube alternatives like peertube need to get their act together and think about how to remunerate content creators. Ain't nobody moving from youtube to peertube that wants to pay their bills with content creation. Nobody.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why should PeerTube bother with that though? We all know YouTubers won't switch to it, infact, YouTubers will not use another platform ever.

They could just upload their videos to multiple places, but they don't. I think it's clear that the vast majority doesn't actually care about it. So what is the point of trying to appeal to them? They may as well priroritize their existing userbase, who are fedi hobbyists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ask yourself why they won't and take economical realities into account.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What economic reality? Most of their income comes from sponsorship deals and Patreon subscriptions anyway. YouTube ad revenue is so unreliable that pretty much no content creator I follow considers it a primary way to make money. How could uploading your videos to other platforms in addition to YouTube have a negative impact on that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just no, please no, for the love of god no ? that way inevitability leads to enshitification. YT itself is a giant shitshow from decades past

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What do you want content creators to live on?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any indications that NewPipe or SmartTube will stop working?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe, the ideia is to force everyone to use the site/app, like Twitter an Reddit did.

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That link isn't necessarily related, as thats from 2023. And the new good news is it appears in the serp now!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But it's Google going after Newpipe, if it did back then it could do it again in other way

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Grayjay still works? YT-DLP still works? I sleep.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Go use NewPipe! Its Foss!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been having issue with it the last couple days, but I also tend to just have issue with it overall lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If ReVanced fall anyway there still exist alternative frontends like NewPipe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The simple fact is that YouTube just isn't good enough to pay the amount of money for that Google wants for it. Accordingly, if other ways to use it besides premium aren't available, I'll stop using it and recover some time in my day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago