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[–] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This article is pretty much an ad for Youtube Premium

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Came here to say this

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

"Finally"? Barf.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

same but with newpipe

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

What do you want content creators to live on?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Any indications that NewPipe or SmartTube will stop working?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Go use NewPipe! Its Foss!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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 11 months ago