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This has been my conclusion. I've spent the past few weeks polishing my yt-dlp scripts. Honestly, the experience of being able to watch any video I want offline

by ladams 3y ago

This has been my conclusion. I've spent the past few weeks polishing my yt-dlp scripts. Honestly, the experience of being able to watch any video I want offline and buffer-free is way better than the default YouTube experience. Sometimes I miss the comments section, but it is probably better for me that I don't have access to that.

treyd 3y ago
It would be interesting to retrofit ActivityPub post feeds around mirrored YouTube videos.
- archargelod 3y ago
  Grayjay[0] for android does this with their 'Polycentric Id'. All videos from multiple platforms supported by the app have a special comment section only available through grayjay. Functionality is still pretty limited, but it's refreshing to write a comment and know that it won't be picked up by a bot and shadow-banned/deleted without reason. 0 - https://grayjay.app/ https://grayjay.app/
  - ravetcofx 3y ago
    I haven't tried this yet, but it the app's creation process was overseen/managed by Louis Rossmann
gary_0 3y ago
Yep, a while back I grabbed yt-dlp and I've been going through my bookmarks and locally archiving useful (or nostalgic) YouTube videos. My 8TB hard drive beats Google's enshittification.
ehnto 3y ago
I wonder if there is a market for a youtube downlod only mirror that creators can opt into, for this use case. Concurrent bandwidth requirements could be lower and no need for streaming tech. The service probably couldn't legally download from youtube and re-host, but if you made a desktop app that uploads to YT and the mirror service at the same time and mirrors the YT video ID on the mirror, that could be attractive to users. All that said, how would such a service sustain itself? Probably ads. So really, same boat, different captain. I don't know. Would you pay a subscription to be able to download your YT video queue?
- chii 3y ago
  > Would you pay a subscription to be able to download your YT video queue? aka, buy youtube premium?
  - eastbound 3y ago
    [flagged]
  - scns 3y ago
    And get ads served some years later?
    - ninkendo 3y ago
      So cancel your premium subscription said some years later? At this hypothetical future time you’d be a lot more justified in piracy IMO, but today you don’t have much of a leg to stand on.
  - danaris 3y ago
    ...which just got a 40+% price bump. And has zero guarantee that it won't have ads, doesn't remove sponsored segments, and sends a pittance to the actual creators.
    - candiodari 3y ago
      It already has ads, promoted videos are still in your feed and still promoted over your own preferences, whether you pay or not. And of course it doesn't stop creators from having sponsored content. So it already doesn't stop the ads. It just stops pre-roll ads.
  - sonicanatidae 3y ago
    Yes, but actually no. The price has gone up while the Ads have gotten worse. I'll not support that financially. I'd rather just download it and move on. To be clear, I get the need for ads, but in the past decade it's just gotten downright abusive, so they can keep it.

by ladams 3y ago

treyd 3y ago

It would be interesting to retrofit ActivityPub post feeds around mirrored YouTube videos.

archargelod 3y ago
Grayjay[0] for android does this with their 'Polycentric Id'. All videos from multiple platforms supported by the app have a special comment section only available through grayjay. Functionality is still pretty limited, but it's refreshing to write a comment and know that it won't be picked up by a bot and shadow-banned/deleted without reason. 0 - https://grayjay.app/ https://grayjay.app/
- ravetcofx 3y ago
  I haven't tried this yet, but it the app's creation process was overseen/managed by Louis Rossmann

gary_0 3y ago

Yep, a while back I grabbed yt-dlp and I've been going through my bookmarks and locally archiving useful (or nostalgic) YouTube videos. My 8TB hard drive beats Google's enshittification.

ehnto 3y ago

I wonder if there is a market for a youtube downlod only mirror that creators can opt into, for this use case. Concurrent bandwidth requirements could be lower and no need for streaming tech. The service probably couldn't legally download from youtube and re-host, but if you made a desktop app that uploads to YT and the mirror service at the same time and mirrors the YT video ID on the mirror, that could be attractive to users. All that said, how would such a service sustain itself? Probably ads. So really, same boat, different captain. I don't know. Would you pay a subscription to be able to download your YT video queue?

chii 3y ago
> Would you pay a subscription to be able to download your YT video queue? aka, buy youtube premium?
- eastbound 3y ago
  [flagged]
- scns 3y ago
  And get ads served some years later?
  - ninkendo 3y ago
    So cancel your premium subscription said some years later? At this hypothetical future time you’d be a lot more justified in piracy IMO, but today you don’t have much of a leg to stand on.
- danaris 3y ago
  ...which just got a 40+% price bump. And has zero guarantee that it won't have ads, doesn't remove sponsored segments, and sends a pittance to the actual creators.
  - candiodari 3y ago
    It already has ads, promoted videos are still in your feed and still promoted over your own preferences, whether you pay or not. And of course it doesn't stop creators from having sponsored content. So it already doesn't stop the ads. It just stops pre-roll ads.
- sonicanatidae 3y ago
  Yes, but actually no. The price has gone up while the Ads have gotten worse. I'll not support that financially. I'd rather just download it and move on. To be clear, I get the need for ads, but in the past decade it's just gotten downright abusive, so they can keep it.