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Invidious
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Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos
For those who have not already heard of it, check out invidious: https://invidious.io/
A list of public instances (which you probably want to use if you're concerned about being identified) here: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
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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].
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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
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Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)
Sometimes a half-solution will do, like Invidious or Piped.
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Deyoutube MegaThread
Invidious
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YouTube's ban leads to a record number of users uninstalling their ad-blockers
Because (a) it's not that widely known and (b) Google is trying to block it [1], so many instances are broken now, which isn't a great experience.
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YouTube wants to get you watching more news from 'authoritative sources'
You can find public instances but they are a bit hit or miss since youtube can often throttle those instances.
I have it running on my home server (so not throttled) and am quite happy with the result.
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Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end
Invidious is a good piped alternative for those starting to look at this space: https://invidious.io/
Yattee is a good front end app for both piped and invidious for Apple TV (and iOS and macOS but I prefer the browser on those platforms)
nitter
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Nitter Shutting Down
Docker based.
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Nitter Is Dead
The creator of the project left this comment an hour ago:
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-19...
(HN removed the deep link to the specific comment from the title)
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Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe
Most of the time you can just replace twitter.com with nitter.net or nitter.it but when these instances are down or blocked you can use other instances listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
But as the other commenter said Libredirect is the way to go: https://libredirect.github.io/
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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].
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Nitter.net Has Disappeared
@lukefromdc @stopmotio someone filed a complaint to Njalla about unconsensual nudity being hosted on nitter.net, with a link that actually came from another instance.
I didn't think much of it when I got an email with the subject "Njalla: New Message", and the body just being a link, while traveling.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18...
Extremely not-encouraging. This is not what I would call professional behavior by Njalla.
nitter.net is unavailable because Njalla (domain vendor) suspended my account. I'm waiting for them to respond.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18...
That is extremely disturbing. Njalla is the owner-of-record (i.e. nominee) for all domains registered through them, rather than merely the registrar. If they run off with your domain you have significantly fewer options for dealing with it than with any other registrar.
I expected better than "shoot first ask questions later" from them. At least shoot while asking the questions; the owner should've had an explanation for the suspension waiting in their inbox.
njal.la restored nitter.net, and replied with their reasons: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18...
tbh I can totally understand why they acted this way.
What are some alternatives?
Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
fritter - A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for mobile devices
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
nitter-instances - Automated uptime monitoring of Nitter instances.
FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
Tube - 📺 tube is a Youtube-like (without censorship and features you don't need!) Video Sharing App written in Go which also supports automatic transcoding to MP4 H.265 AAC, multiple collections and RSS feed.
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/