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i got my fist proper one the other day too
https://social.yorkshiregeek.xyz/@thelad/111188009106661379
So I reinstalled https://adnauseam.io/
if i must have ads, let's make them useless at tracking what I really am.
I had no idea about freetube. Newsboat I know, but how does it work in place of/with youtube?
@nakdim @nixCraft YT channels have their own feed (YTurl/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=XXX), create a "ytfeeds" file with a list of all the urls of your favorite channels. Then create a config file in ~/.newsboat/. I share mine to give you an idea but I recommend that you learn and use your own: https://codeshare.io/dwXk1Z
Create another file "ytfeeds.db" and finally run: newsboat --url-file=ytfeeds β --cache-file=ytfeeds.db"
To open a video, select it on newsboat and if you use my config press ,+m
@patrick_h_lauke Hehe :) Well, that is why I have offered two options. The simplest and friendliest for non-geeks is to use FreeTube or another YT desktop client.
If you care about the resources consumed or the speed, you can use the other alternative.
@patrick_h_lauke @alejandrobdn @nixCraft
Here is a link to Freetube for anyone interested - https://freetubeapp.io/
This app is made for normal everyday users, not tech savvy geeks.
@nixCraft
Why even use that shitty domain??
Do like the rest of us, use your search engine to find your needs, then use yt-dlp on a foreign installation, IE your outsourced server, then download it from there.
You can of course also setup a peertube instance like tube.reck.dk, who is hosting music from yt.
IE #TaylorSwift https://tube.reck.dk/a/taylorswift
You can also do as @nixCraft but that will leave a trail at #yt
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@nixCraft Iβve never seen an ad on YouTube that didnβt annoy me, or that interested meβ¦ let alone didnβt use more of my resources than I like. π€
So Iβll just have to do without YouTube until they fix that. Not really a problem. π€ π€£
@nixCraft I especially love the intimidating "you're violating the ToS" language that makes it sound like you've just done a crime.
People without YouTube accounts click on YouTube links in social media posts and news articles all the time. Where exactly does Google think such a user saw and agreed to any kind of ToS whatsoever? π
@nixCraft EU here, I've seen this rollout happening for the past few months but haven't been hit with it here yet either. Either UBlock is doing some magic in the back that prevents this from happening or there's some kind of regulation/legislation/etc that's slowing down the deployment here.
Not that I'm complaining. Youtube can fuck off with their shitty 15 second fake mobile ads.
@nixCraft Debian 12 + Firefox + uBlock Origin here: being noticing glitches at start of some videos for a few weeks.
Got this banner for first time last Monday, kept showing randomly for a couple days.
When I got the banner, I just clicked browser's back button then play video again.
A couple times the script blocked the browser's back button so I had to long-click it and select first page from list.
Haven't this banner for a few days, maybe uBlock figured out how to block it?
@aks @nixCraft i also use those tools, but if youtube locks down its content (which is possible) humanity will lose access to a great resource we've been building together.
it's very sad, and not something i think we should accept.
yes, they're the custodians of all this right now. no, that does not mean they get to lock it away.
@aks @nixCraft yes!! we need to do that, and to keep making things that make it easy for normals to own their data.
#activitypub is hugely important for this, and things like #peertube
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