Yesterday I wanted to watch a video.
The second I air played it to my tv YouTube reloaded the video at 360p resolution and removed the up to 1440p resolutions from the list.
Fuck YouTube.
https://fmhy.net/ , maybe you find something .
Dr. Alphabet: “We have billions…but squeeze the users more and we could have trillions.”
What have they done now?
It’s still YT based of course, but I’ve been using Nebula and Invidious for years to access vids coming from YT. Also watch Curiosity Stream.
I haven’t seen ads in a long long time. I even paid for a lifetime subscription to Nebula because I’d prefer to support through Nebula than through Google.
Try freetube ,skytube ,newpipe ,grayjay, etc
Grayjay is not FOSS.
Newpipe is amazing. Forgot to mention that one. The others I’ve heard of but never tried. Thanks!
Pipepipe also has sponsorblock.
Good luck
Enshittification 🌈🦄
You guys still use YT ? 😂
Alternatives that have the same amount of niche content?
watching the same content on an alternative front-end, like Invidious. it can be slow at times or not load every now and then, but given that there’s hardly any emeregency situations that require someone to load a video RIGHT AWAY THIS MINUTE, I find that it’s a pretty good tradeoff for the lack of ads, shorts, and the ability to completely hide the comments.
You get the same and more with adblock and sponsorblock. Ok maybe I’ve not covered shorts but I imagine that’s not hard to fix with a browser plugin too.
People don’t watch YT. People watch content that’s only available on YT.
Every content from YT van be viewed from outside ,without ADS or premium account
Ofc. Silly to deny that
Yes. Even creators at Nebula have YT as their main gig.
I think the point was using YT to watch YT. Not even my parents watch YouTube using YouTube anymore.
Your parents watch YT on a computer?
Rushing to backup as much stuff as I can, yes.
Use a scraper
