I haven’t watched an ad on youtube for at least the last 5 years. Ad blocking is cyber security.
They have been pushing adblock detecting technologies in some regions. I’m preparing for having to stop using Youtube when they roll it out here.
I don’t think you’ll be losing out on much. Their algorithm has gone to shit recently and finding anything new has become a chore.
I’ve never had history on so their algorithm has always been ass for me. Just depended on subs.
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Ad blocking is basic hygiene at this point.
I recently had to adjust ublock origin manually after ads started popping up on youtube.
I’m getting the feeling that within the next five years I’m going to be abandoning YouTube and just living without video content going forward.
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Half of the videos they recommend to me are things I’ve already watched. Sometimes there’ll just be blank slots like they couldn’t find any content to recommend. It’s so shit now.
Check out PeerTube.
Smart content creators have been setting up websites, Patreons, merchandise shops, and all they need to jump ship when YouTube finally capsizes. The likely/easy/inexpensive alternative for content creators, is PeerTube.
Tempted to looking in to self hosting video content, it’s a real storage hog, but if compressed, I imagine some of the mid sized youtube channels could afford to do so, the real shame will be the difficulty for smaller creators to get discovered without a common platform.
The problem isn’t storing it, it’s hosting and delivering content.
YouTube, Netflix, and all the other big streaming platforms have huge amounts of servers around the world delivering content with minimal latency and without saturating the Internet exchanges with gigantic amounts of data traffic.
If we were to do this peer-2-peer people would have to get used to waiting for pages and videos to load again.
So long as the video runs continuously once the page loads, I’m not particularly bothered by latency. Admittedly I’m not everyone, but I think most people care more about the content than the UX. I mean, hell, YouTube has a pretty miserable UX in different ways, not from lack skill on the part of the people who make and maintain it or limitations of technology, but from the poor cooperate incentives and goals that govern it.
It probably wouldn’t. Or you would have to wait a long time.
Try streaming from a site across the world and see how it is today. Then imagine saturating the networks with loads of it.
Would definitely need new infrastructure to cache popular content.
I’m glad nebula exists as a good alternative for educational content. It has successfully replaced much of the time I previously spent on YouTube.
Does anyone else ever notice that the changes like this they make are done piece mail, brick by brick ,they continue to shitify the service. That’s intentional…Imagine you tube in the year 2009. I’m betting no one really remembers, and youtube made the same bet.
How many things have they taken away that users really like over the years think about it. Now imagine they did all those changes AT ONCE…TODAY… from 2005 at inception. Horrifying huh ?
Big companies always start off with an amazing array of “Standard Features” that they allow everyone to use, so that the users get hooked on them, then suddenly they make an announcement like this and they change, remove, or premium tier a feature. They know you wont like it… but they got you hooked and they know it and they dont care. It’s all driven at profiteering as much as they can off of you. Honestly I see youtube trying to become like Netflix by continuing to increase inconvenience with ads (for their profit), and ultimately making Youtube a completely payed service subscription to everyone.
They gaslight the great majority into just giving in to more ads, shittier service, and eventually a payed subscription by breaking your outrage up into small little pieces over time. STOP LETTING THEM !
Edit: So yeah Twitter/X as predicted.
Anyways both Nebula and Curiositystream have lifetime subscriptions available right now… 90% of my YouTube viewing is from creators on those sites anyway
I’ve had several lifetime subscriptions that have been made into paid monthly subscriptions. Lifetime subscription is a gamble that I have yet to see pay off.
It also CAN’T be good for you long-term. Eventually providers start losing money on you. Which means they fail, or they start looking for other ways to monetize you that you probably won’t like.
Like, say, Plex.
I choose yearly when I can for this kind of thing.
Doesn’t matter. People will still eat that shit up! YouTube is the best example of Stockholm syndrome I’ve ever seen. This shit should be taught about in schools.
It’s much more banal. YouTube is simply a monopoly abusing its market power. People would use alternatives if they existed.
They exist!
- Peertube
- Odysee
- Rumble Above is just a few of them.
They are not alternatives because they don’t have content. Streaming video is fairly trivial. Having content is not.
Streaming video is NOT trivial.
Video files are big. There’s so much costs involved in hosting, compression, transcoding, distributing across CDNs, and serving, that “free” tiers on those services are just not feasible long-term. Even a multi-billion corporation like Google/Alphabet was only willing to burn cash on that for so long.
PeerTube offloads distributing and serving across the viewers, so the more popular a video becomes, the more “CDN” its viewers provide.
It only has the “downside” of less control and the inability of the platform to insert ads, so all promotions are directly controlled by the content creators themselves, who “in exchange” only need a minimal server to host their videos.
While it’s been hard to find good stats, something to the effect of several hundreds of hours of video footage is uploaded to YouTube every minute.
Processing, storing, and streaming that is not remotely a trivial task.
They are for me at least since all of my favourite Youtuber upload videos on Odysee and Peertube too.
Are those actually hosting videos or just accessing YouTube? Because for the latter, most people still want the algorithm and the interaction/support to the creators they follow
All of those host videos themselves, they’re not like piped or invidious.
Oh that’s nice. Are many YouTubers cross posting there?
No one is really posting content to any of the alternatives really. Maybe if you are really into crypto-hype or other very niche topics, there will be a little content. But not much.
Personally I can’t understand doomsrolers that “prefer” the “algorithm”.
The problem is that there is no valid alternative at the moment, so I wouldn’t call that Stockholm sybdrome. Hosting that much content for free costs ungodly amounts of money to Google
No valid alternative isn’t an excuse to continue consuming shit. That’s abused wife mentality.
Just leave. You don’t need an alternative.
