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FixYT
- __hudson__ 13y agoI don't have a youtube account so this site is a good way to watch youtube videos with content restrictions.
- lanbird 13y agoalready watched and hide it would be great!
- sequoia 13y agoIt's nice but if you ever even appear to cut into their ad model they'll shut ya down. Gotta pay the engineers, other employees, electric bill etc.... youtube ain't free ;) EDIT: I really like the site & hope you flesh it out. Just not getting my hopes up too high. :)
- nairteashop 13y agoYouTube only shows ads in the video right? Looks like those are still being shown.
- RossM 13y agoNope - they run homepage banners, sidebar ads and occasionally full-page adverts (that hijack the background). It's surreal browsing without Adblock occasionally.
- nairteashop 13y agoHmm, interesting. I get sidebar ads occasionally, but I've never noticed the other ones - maybe I just tune them out when I see them. (I use ghostery, but disabled it temporarily for testing this out.)
- nemof 13y agoNot to mention the ads shown next to original content created by youtube creators earn them a living.
- tehwebguy 13y agoAds displayed around the video are almost always tied to the ad displayed on the video and ads displayed on the video are part of the revenue-sharing program.
- markisonfire 13y agoWow. I wonder how much I miss while using Adblock. That sounds miserable.
- flyintothemoon 13y agoI've built something a little bit more fleshed out, actually... How about a site that lets you search and watch videos at the same time. And also does Vimeo. And lets you save them to personal collections. Here you go. http://huzzaz.com/search http://huzzaz.com/search
- dirkk0 13y agoThis is very cool! The interface should get a little more love, though?
- tehwebguy 13y agoRedisplaying YouTube content on other websites is explicitly allowed. Ads run in the embedded player, which they made easily available and usable on purpose. What is NOT allowed, as far as I know, is using their API and player to make a website that does nothing but show YouTube content.
- jfoster 13y agoThey do make it tricky to monetize, though. IIRC, you're not allowed to accept payments or show your own ads alongside the videos.
- janson0 13y agoIt is actually not against their TOS to accept payments or run additional ads alongside their content.
- hncommenter13 13y agoIt might be, depending on what else is on the page. Clause 4(d) of the Terms of Service[1] reads: "You agree not to use the Service for any of the following commercial uses unless you obtain YouTube's prior written approval: - the sale of access to the Service; - the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions placed on or within the Service or Content; or - the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions on any page of an ad-enabled blog or website containing Content delivered via the Service, unless other material not obtained from YouTube appears on the same page and is of sufficient value to be the basis for such sales." [1] http://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms http://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms
- vinceguidry 13y agoI subscribe to Avdi Grimm's excellent RubyTapas series, and the biggest pain about it is the lack of a web viewer. Google seems to be explicitly disallowing him to use YT, and that really sucks. Anyone looking to make and sell videos has to put them on Amazon or whatever and make you download them.
- LukeWalsh 13y agoI use a browser plugin that strips down the actual site to a minimal version http://www.clea.nr http://www.clea.nr It's by far the best solution I've found since it stays out of the way, and when I click on a Youtube link the page is much nicer.
- bjtitus 13y agoThere's also YouTube's own Feather beta: http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta
- thinkalone 13y agoAnd https://youtube.com/tv https://youtube.com/tv
- cachemeifyoucan 13y agoCan't seem to install the plugin - chrome is blocking the installation and I can't find it in the chrome extension store...
- agumonkey 13y agogeneralized readability/printfriendly .. pretty nice. sent from my 2006 laptop
- iancarroll 13y agoWhat's the real purpose behind this site? All I see is YouTube with Bootstrap.
- sinak 13y agoRead about the purpose here: http://fixyt.com/about http://fixyt.com/about
- bschwarz 13y agoAfter getting fed up with the ongoing changes to subscriptions I created a barebones tool to act as a replacement. No Google/Youtube account needed, new videos are fetched using the API, setup is git clone and open in browser. https://github.com/adabei/tubeless/ https://github.com/adabei/tubeless/
- skore 13y agoPro Tip: Just use github pages to instantly give people a demo. All you need for that is to make a gh-pages branch and rename your main file to index.html.
- bschwarz 13y agoThanks, that's a good idea. This would eliminate the need to download anything and make it usable from mobile without any additional steps!
- skore 13y agoIndeed! Did the same for my own youtube thingie: https://github.com/daviddeutsch/yt-sanegrid/ https://github.com/daviddeutsch/yt-sanegrid/
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- timl88 13y agoIf it could get around youtube's annoying DASH and buffer the entire video while paused I would use it!
- jamesbritt 13y agoLook for the Youtube Center addon or extension. Among the many options is disabling DASH.
- skore 13y agoCareful, though - Google is fighting back against this and in many cases, you don't get all resolutions when disabling dash.
- nighthawk24 13y agoThis is so good! Hoping YouTube takes a clue or two
- albrtc 13y agohttp://www.youtube.com/feather_beta http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta
- yangtheman 13y agoI love it. With all the horrible and bloated changes they have been making, I thought there would be an opportunity to create simpler version of or alternate of YouTube. I guess you are still using YouTube contents so they can block you if they wish. I still think there is an opportunity to create an alternate video sharing site that's good enough. Good job, though! I will be using your site instead of youtube as long as your site is live.
- smokinn 13y agoThere's also Google's own version of trimmed down youtube: http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta After enabling that I've never looked back. No comments and loads way faster.
- ghayes 13y agoThis should be more well known. I just enabled it and don't plan on ever looking back.
- mburns 13y agoUntil you want to watch a playlist or a channel without choosing each video each time. Feather Beta doesn't work with the "Play all" links or playlists in general.
- dools 13y agoI created a little thing for making and sharing playlists: http://www.cueyoutube.com/ http://www.cueyoutube.com/ I tweet my lists using the hashtag #cueyoutube which means I can always go back and find them later using http://snapbird.org/ http://snapbird.org/
- cdash 13y agoThis is the problem I ran into, I originally enabled it think it was great and the next day promptly disabled it because of this.
- cjstewart88 13y agoAs always, I love sites that strip down YouTube. YouTube houses tons of great content; however, they seem to be making their consumers pretty unhappy. Check out http://www.tubalr.com http://www.tubalr.com it's my app and focuses on YouTube's music content. Grats on hitting the front page and I hope you can retain users, its the hardest part about websites like this.
- calibwam 13y agoI would use tubalr more often, but whenever I need it, I can't remember what it is called. I've liked you on Facebook, so my usual way of finding it is by going there and finding you amongst my likes. In other words, you should try to come further up on google searches for "youtube music".
- cjstewart88 13y agoI've heard this far to many times :( Thanks for being a user when you can think of the name though!
- Geee 13y agoSame here. I usually Google for tubular or tublr and can't find it.
- benmorris 13y agoSimply awesome, in an instant I remembered all of the reasons I used to like youtube.
- lionheart 13y agoDoes this get around the issue of local ISPs caching the content and then causing the video download to be extremely slow? I've heard there's a way get your browser to always connect directly to YouTube's servers, but I could never get it to work.
- amalag 13y agoIt is just youtube embedded plays. The whole thing will not work if a video has disabled embedding.
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- zokier 13y agoI think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G/YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.
- jfoster 13y agoBut then you find yourself up against their network effects and more often than not, it goes absolutely nowhere. If you just want a nicer YouTube, step 1 is at least experimenting within the confines of the existing one. Otherwise you'd need to worry about all of the infrastructure and accepting video uploads, encoding, etc. Unless you're on a crusade against Google/YouTube, this is absolutely the sane way of starting out.
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 13y agoThis is unreasonable. YT isn't going to disappear. Did myspace? No. The fact that YT provides an API is plenty to reface it. You should view this website as another from of protest. Which of there have been plenty of protests in recent. It's not wrong, just a different one.
- geofft 13y ago... wait, MySpace is still around?
- ajarmoniuk 13y agoNot really. The brand is, but it's a completely different service now.
- markisonfire 13y agoYou can log in with your Facebook account now. Tells you pretty much all you need to know.
- milsorgen 13y agoI wouldn't say it's completely different. It certainly is positioned in a completely different way but one can still log in and view their old pages and content.
- calbear81 13y agoOn my recent trip, I wanted to watch some YouTube videos in the air but there wasn't WiFi on my flight. I found an app called MxTube for iPad and it blew my mind how much cleaner, faster, and more intuitive it was than the REAL YouTube app. Added benefit - You can cache videos for offline playback. I happily paid the $1.99 pro upgrade to support the developer.
- zalew 13y agohttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-center/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-cente... is useful, especially fixing buffering and quality.
- skizm 13y agoI mentioned this in another thread but YouTube feather (beta) is pretty much this. It strips down everything but the video and the recommendations on the side. Also it is an official Google feature.
- rexreed 13y agoFor those interested: https://www.youtube.com/feather_beta https://www.youtube.com/feather_beta
- trendoid 13y agoAll the videos that require sign in due to "rated content", seems to be not working since they require sign in. I dont even get a sign in option, just "error occurred".
- SeoxyS 13y agoI'm a big fan of toogles and its chrome extension. http://toogl.es/#/browse http://toogl.es/#/browse
- trendoid 13y agofrom http://fixyt.com/about http://fixyt.com/about : "Thanks to toogl.es for the like/dislike concept. Toogl.es is an awesome YouTube alternative too."
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- jff 13y agoBoth this and Youtube's own Feather beta seem to lack support for playlists. I like playlists for listening to music at work, for example Brad Neely's "America, Now" videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPQrXUpvkuc&list=PLD8217FD2EE6CEB23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPQrXUpvkuc&list=PLD8217FD2EE...). Also useful for watching web series like Marble Hornets. I love a simpler experience, but I think content creators will want playlists.
- flyintothemoon 13y agoGot you covered. http://huzzaz.com/search http://huzzaz.com/search
- Geee 13y agohttp://www.tubalr.com/ http://www.tubalr.com/ is the best for Youtube music, it has automatic playlists for artists
- agumonkey 13y agowhere can I comment ? just kidding, great job
- zapt02 13y agoI love how channels are presented. Now I can actually see the new videos. Will use this instead of YouTube for a while! PS Can you make "load more" optional? I just want stuff to be loaded as I scroll automagically. :)
- znowi 13y agoThis is what YouTube should be like (or how it once was actually). However, I agree with others that building a UI on top of it is not much of innovation. I'd rather see new and better apps instead of new and better props for the old and ugly services.
- ngoldbaum 13y agoAs I'm involved with an open source analysis and visualization tool named yt [1][2], this submission made my heart skip a beat. [1] http://yt-project.org http://yt-project.org [2] Neal Stephenson reference.
- tzury 13y agoyt-project looks interesting. thanks for sharing.
- bowlofpetunias 13y agoIt's shocking that only now I realize just how incredibly bad YouTube has become.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoIt's a consequence of google's empire-itis. If they view youtube in the mold of their major business they see they can spend most of their effort working on the technical problems, slap some ads on it, and then call it a day. Even though this might provide a good platform for many people to host videos and is probably revenue positive or at worst neutral for google, nevertheless it doesn't do much to advance an entire new industry. In many ways youtube would be better without google. The technological problems would be more severe and a bigger challenge, but such a youtube would likely be smarter about finding ways to better monetize content and to pass on that monetization to creators (to create a virtual cycle of new content, and so forth). As it stands now youtube barely acknowledges creators as anything more than any other ordinary users of the site.
- lignuist 13y agoRecommendations are actually nice, but the problem on YT is how they are based on the current video and my personal browsing history at the same time. I think in earlier days they were just based on the current video and this made much more sense to me.
- ye 13y agoIt's completely useless to me. All the important content discovery features are gone. The search is horrible, all the nice filtering options YT has aren't there.
- kunai 13y agoThe overbloatiness of YouTube and the artsy-fartsy nature of Vimeo have left a vacuum for something that would be similar to the imgur of videos. I wouldn't be so surprised if someone applied to a venture capital firm with this sort of thing.
- tehwebguy 13y agoLooks like the YouTube specific autocomplete uses an undocumented Google API at suggestqueries.google.com Someone documented it here: http://shreyaschand.com/blog/2013/01/03/google-autocomplete-api/ http://shreyaschand.com/blog/2013/01/03/google-autocomplete-...
- ChrisNorstrom 13y agoThank you whoever you are. May the randomness of the Universe be in your favor. - It's blazing fast, much faster than the original. - Doesn't have that stupid loading bar at the top. - No more glitched video page loads. - Isn't going to be redesigned every 5 months like YT. - The video player is center aligned and not left aligned. - Drops all the unnecessary UI elements and doesn't bother me to start using my real name with G+. I've become so pissed off at Google for the way it's been handling YT redesigns (and Analytics redesigns too). It's like they get the most amateur designers out of high school, and go on an a/b test spree by changing absolutely everything they can. YT's gone through 3+ redesigns now. Each one getting progressively more annoying than the last. And they just keep tinkering with things that aren't broken. Remember the slideshow playlist at the bottom of the screen a year back? And who in their right mind would left align the div holding a video player?! It's annoying when a company treats one of its flagship products like a never ending science project experiment. Good job on FixYT, my only suggestion: give me the option to turn the color scheme black.
- ajkjk 13y agoI very much agree. I feel like every Google product is going straight downhill in similar ways.. even the ones unrelated to Google+. There must be some grand design to the whole thing but I don't see how it can all be money.
- julespitt 13y agoIt's blazing fast, much faster than the original. It really is, I'd love for whoever made this to show a breakdown - front-end and back-end - of what decisions they made that added up to this.
- martian 13y ago> "supports privacy and stores no information" Interesting that there's still a Google Analytics tracking call on the page.
- mgkimsal 13y agobut hey, fixyt themselves don't store the info, so... i guess it's fine, right? i'm getting a little tired of the 'privacy backlash' from many quarters, as I don't really get what people are after. piggybacking on youtube, which needs to generate revenue and does so by relevant ads... just strikes me as juvenile. You want "privacy" but you also want the fruits of non-private endeavors? Too bad. Build an entire video hosting and streaming service, give it away for free, focus on 'privacy', and see how far you get. But leeching off YT feels wrong.
- syllogism 13y agoThe big privacy concern with YT is that your viewing history will be displayed to your friends and acquaintances, attached to your real name. People can say, "Don't be ridiculous! They would never!", but Google is so utterly tone-deaf to user concerns that people, myself included, just can't rule it out. And it makes us angry. Think back to Buzz: suddenly, you could view all of your contacts' contacts!! That's the level of deafness Google has to how you might want your data displayed to people you know...and that's why this feature is so unacceptable to pretty much everyone.
- mgkimsal 13y agoThen that should be specifically highlighted as a concern and a fix. I don't even know what people mean by 'privacy' anymore - it means so many things to different people. A friend of mine started a 'social network focused on privacy'. Except that when you signed up, your details were available to anyone else who'd signed up - they could browse all existing members. Was that 'private'? I complained and he's changed the behavior, but the point is his notion of 'privacy' was apparently radically different than mine.
- lukasm 13y agoDid they just fix the comment?
- vishaldpatel 13y agoShameless plug for playr.me
- salient 13y agoSeems so much faster than Youtube.
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- WoodenChair 13y agoThat Noah movie looks absolutely "epic".
- carlesfe 13y agoThank you, now I can watch yt videos without any flash player!
- rocky1138 13y agoI thought about doing something similar a few years ago but gave up after reading in their TOS that in order for embedding to be allowed, the page cannot be specifically about the video but instead must simply use the video to enhance the original content on the page.
- kapitalx 13y agoFinally, related videos that are related to the video! For some reason google decided to show videos 'relevant' to me. But all I want is videos related to what i'm watching. Thanks, I really like it.
- ytNumbers 13y agoFantastic! There's so much wrong with Youtube these days. It's great that someone is trying to fix it! Now, a nitpick... Your about page has a typo. You've got the word recommendation with only one m. If it were my site, I'd want someone to tell me.
- mikecane 13y agoI've been using Toogles all this time. This seems even faster. Will switch between both as each have their points. Thanks. And Googlers, you've run YouTube into the ground with clutter. Stop. Roll back. And get rid of tying of it to G+. We don't want that.