NeuralBlock
Invidious
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210 | 15,061 | |
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2.4 | 9.5 | |
8 months ago | 6 days ago | |
Python | Crystal | |
- | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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NeuralBlock
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Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. Is this a new thing they've implemented?
For the note there is NeuralBlock, which is an experimental AI that uses SponsorBlock's dataset.
- Dark Pattern: How YouTube Makes Sure You Don’t Always “Skip Ad”
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Samsung M8 Display $699 vs Apple Studio Display $1599
There is a neural network version in dev: https://github.com/andrewzlee/NeuralBlock
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[Other] Who... who tf looks at a video that is 13 years old and marks the opening and ending parts? God bless you for such work. Every video is marked man this is great!
There is already a neural network that uses Sponsorblock as training data!
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Blocking Unwanted YouTube Video Segments
Check out https://ai.neuralblock.app/
All the data is public, so anyone can try!
I still think this will remain human-made for the foreseeable future, as an AI will probably never be able to make the millisecond-precise segments that it currenty has
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Suggestion: An AI could read the auto generated captions and determine when there is a interaction reminder/intro etc and automatically submit it.
It is already being done (for sponsor) https://github.com/andrewzlee/NeuralBlock , but automatically submitting it would be a bad idea ( risk of error and the timings aren't very good).
Invidious
- Google Broke Invidious Again
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Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
Youtube seems to be doing some A/B testing with the comment system which has made proxies like Invidious and yt-dlp/Newpipe unable to load comments. There is a patch for Invidious [1] which solves this problem but it is not in master yet. I tested it on my own instance and it does solve the problem.
[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4576
- YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
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Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)
BTW, I don't understand the workaround: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552/files
Which was taken from here: https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js/pull/624
Could anybody explain it to me?
- Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos
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YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
Use a Youtube proxy like Invidious [1], problem solved and you get to subscribe to channels without telling the Beast about your interests. Add Sponsorblock (which supports Invidious) to get rid of any in-stream advertising which remains and you'll be transported back to those hallowed times of yore when men were men, women were women and advertising was something you found in newspapers. Youtube will try to make this harder just like Xitter is trying to make it harder to use proxies like Nitter [2].
[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
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YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
Going to drop this here for others who haven't heard of it https://invidious.io/
Now, how do we fix this? YouTube's ad model sucks. Their algorithm sucks. Their front page sucks. They've captured a bunch of creators though so often YouTube is the only place you can find someone.
I want those creators to benefit from me viewing their videos. I want the fact that I view a video and like it to help other people find that video in their recommendations. I want an algorithm that shows me things that are interesting and relevant not one that promotes the spammiest and most ad heavy videos that barely have anything to do with my watch history.
Having an alternative front end is nice but I don't want to rob YouTube of the money they spend on hosting the videos.
So, how do we do this?
Peer to peer fails when there is little interest in something or when most people leech and it sucks for archiving old content.
Hosting it all in one place is super expensive and hard for a small group to manage without turning into YouTube.
Maybe we could find a way for the creators to host their own content and get paid when people view it while being part of a large federated network for easy discoverability?
Please list any projects you know of, I'm sure there are a lot of people here who would be willing to contribute or donate.
- Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
- YouTube is trying to block Invidious
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Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)
Sometimes a half-solution will do, like Invidious or Piped.
[0] https://invidious.io/
[1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
What are some alternatives?
SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
AntennaPod - A podcast manager for Android
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
invidious-custom - Invidious with some git patches (mostly from existing PRs)
FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
play-with-mpv - Chrome extension that allows you to play videos in webpages like youtube with MPV instead
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
spaCy - 💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
SponSkrub - Strip advertisements from downloaded YouTube videos
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit