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[-] SnotFlickerman 169 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I always somehow miss when it stops working and by the time I go to YouTube again it's already working again.

Blessings to Gorhill

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 40 points 6 months ago

don't forget the list maintainers

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 84 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Friends don't let friends deal with YouTube's website.
NewPipe
FreeTube

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago
[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

we’re all friends here

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Also relevant:

  • alternate frontends (e.g. Invidious and Piped)
  • yt-dlp🔗 (youtube downloader, can also be used to stream videos into players like mpv)
[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something

[-] sag@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Self-Hosting is the only option right now.

[-] N00b22@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

PipePipe in case NewPipe can't load the video because it requires sign in

[-] Chev@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

There is no option to sign in on NewPipe. NewPipe works perfectly for me for years now. I even use the Sponsorblock Fork to skip the sponsored segments from the Video Creators

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Well, down the list we go...

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Don't forget Smarttube

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

FreeTube breaks regularly and doesn't have support for higher resolutions.

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[-] jkozaka@lemm.ee 64 points 6 months ago

It was fixed in mere minutes

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 39 points 6 months ago

YouTube Premium is the only media subscription I pay for because it's the only one I consider worth it. I watch an unhealthy amount of YT, listen to tons of music, and even use YT as a kind of cloud storage for thousands of hours of recorded video.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 72 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’d probably be paying for YouTube, if it were run by a normal media company instead of the world’s largest spy network and personal data broker. There’s no way in hell I’m giving them my credit card information.

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah I don't really care about value when it comes to giving money to the guys who work with the NSA and CIA to find ways to more thoroughly spy on every user 24/7, and turned every search into "You asked for x, here's a dozen pages of what the State Department thinks you should have searched for instead"

Not to mention their genocide profiteering: https://www.mintpressnews.com/project-nimbus-billion-google-amazon-partners-israel/280087/

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

It’s not even about the money, it’s literally about the credit card information, and the massive amount of data linked to it.

[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago

I would pay for a lot more things if I could do it anonymously

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Do they not already know who you are and what you purchase anyway? I'm wondering how much of a difference it makes.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Whether they do or not, Google doesn’t know that that person is the same person as the one who is using YouTube.

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago
[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Data gathering/brokering and payment information security are not really connected. PCI compliance standards are well standardized and fairly strict.

I would trust Google to handle payment information securely over any ‘media’ company.

If personal data was regulated at even the fraction of what payment data goes through we would all be better off.

[-] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

Sorry for the down votes, you're 100% valid. YouTube Premium benefits me and the content creators I watch. Sure, it's more complicated than that, but everything is, and sometimes you just have to make choices that make your life a little easier.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Doesn't bother me, I know that it's an insanely hot take on Lemmy and reddit. I appreciate the vocal backup though.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

You got backup from me too. Its the only subscription in our home.

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yup.

Family plan is 22$ for ad free yt and music subscription for 5 or 6 people

I get that Google bad an all that, but it's a good deal

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

Personally, considering I can get it for free, and that Google bad, $22 is a bad deal for me. I'd rather donate $20 to the groups helping us get around it, and spend the other $2 on jawbreakers!

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah but my aging parents can't, it's about effort. Of course I could set up something that gets around all of it but then I still have to pay for their music streaming on their phone. And the second something breaks I'm not with them to fix it.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago
[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] Lazhward@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I paid for premium, until they wanted PayPal to share my address with Google.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I used to pay for it, for the same reasons. They stopped taking my money, i don't know why, and I noticed zero change in the quality of the service.

I'm paying for other google services, so I don't know why youtube specifically stopped. Oh well.

[-] Epzillon@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Can anyone tell me why my "purge cache" button is missing? I thought i was crazy

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Ads aside, what's been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the "1080p Enhanced Bitrate"; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don't have Premium, but I'm fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would've been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

From everything I've read, it seems they didn't actually reduce quality and it's just placebo from the introduction of the premium bitrate option.

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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I'm guessing they're going to use the classic method of increasing the subscription price and then later creating a new lite subscription that does have some ads.

[-] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

I was so happy to find this post, and was saddened again to see that I didn't have this button available when I needed it hahahaha

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.

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[-] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Now It's gone

[-] teije9 2 points 6 months ago

I've never even seen that before with unlock on firefox

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