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I'm seriously considering just setting up a service that downloads everything in my preferred channels overnight and re-serves it locally. It'll increase their

by Havoc 2y ago

I'm seriously considering just setting up a service that downloads everything in my preferred channels overnight and re-serves it locally. It'll increase their cost and decrease their revenue but frankly I'm just getting fed up with their UX. It's just sooo fuckin bad I do wonder whether YT staff actually uses it. e.g. lately the thumbnails have a popup overlay that pops into existence at last second over the thumbnail, basically hijacks your click and navigates you away from yt and to a support.google.com page that discusses paid product placement. No google thats not why I clicked on a video thumbnail.

Larrikin 2y ago
How do you filter out what you actually want? There are no tools to sort through subscriptions that I know of. I am subscribed to some channels that put out tons of contents where I usually don't want to watch it, but the stuff that I do want to watch is high priority, channels where everything is priority, and channels where it's content I just want to watch occasionally when it happens to show up and I'm in the mood. I learned long ago that anything I want to watch more than once should be saved locally when a record label made a group I liked delete all their content to promote a new album, but I need a solution for filtering the one time views.
- Havoc 2y ago
  >How do you filter out what you actually want? I wouldn't. Bulk download it all and decide locally. Not something I'd usually do because it is wasteful and not being a good net citizen but sufficiently annoyed that I'm willing to colour outside the lines here.
l72 2y ago
I previously used FreshRSS to follow youtube channels I was interested, but I've switched to Tube Archivist[1] + the Jellyfin Plugin [2]. Now my youtube channels are automatically downloaded to my server and I can watch them through Jellyfin, like any other show. I never have to deal with YouTube's terrible UX anymore. [1] https://www.tubearchivist.com/ [2] https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-jf-plugin
- hnuser435 2y ago
  Sounds absolutely goated.
QuadmasterXLII 2y ago
yt-dl, chron, and onedrive or icloud together achieve this

by Havoc 2y ago

Larrikin 2y ago

How do you filter out what you actually want? There are no tools to sort through subscriptions that I know of. I am subscribed to some channels that put out tons of contents where I usually don't want to watch it, but the stuff that I do want to watch is high priority, channels where everything is priority, and channels where it's content I just want to watch occasionally when it happens to show up and I'm in the mood. I learned long ago that anything I want to watch more than once should be saved locally when a record label made a group I liked delete all their content to promote a new album, but I need a solution for filtering the one time views.

Havoc 2y ago
>How do you filter out what you actually want? I wouldn't. Bulk download it all and decide locally. Not something I'd usually do because it is wasteful and not being a good net citizen but sufficiently annoyed that I'm willing to colour outside the lines here.

l72 2y ago

I previously used FreshRSS to follow youtube channels I was interested, but I've switched to Tube Archivist[1] + the Jellyfin Plugin [2]. Now my youtube channels are automatically downloaded to my server and I can watch them through Jellyfin, like any other show. I never have to deal with YouTube's terrible UX anymore. [1] https://www.tubearchivist.com/ [2] https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-jf-plugin

hnuser435 2y ago
Sounds absolutely goated.

QuadmasterXLII 2y ago

yt-dl, chron, and onedrive or icloud together achieve this