Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

[tehpope]

I assume others have had issue with freetube giving a http 429 error? I can resolve it by tunneling through my vpn provider.

 

[BirdUp]

I cannot recommend this addon enough. Using it with uBlock and SponsorBlock will completely unfuck your experience. Here's what YouTube looks like for me now:

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I can relate. I bought my mother a new laptop last year, set it up for her and the first thing I did was install Firefox with Ublock and NoScript.

NoScript is too much for niggercattle. Not unreasonably so, when a lot of sites require 37 fucking third party Javascript imports to load a news article.

 

[Oliver Onions]

NoScript is too much for niggercattle. Not unreasonably so, when a lot of sites require 37 fucking third party Javascript imports to load a news article.

That's true, I think I set it to be light on what it auto-blocked, but I might be getting mixed up with Firefox's own security settings. The worst experience in the world is trying to configure NoScript on a fresh browser install, but it is pretty funny seeing how almost every modern website breaks entirely without JS.

 

[TheHarbinger]

NoScript is too much for niggercattle. Not unreasonably so, when a lot of sites require 37 fucking third party Javascript imports to load a news article.

NoScript is almost too much for anyone at this point. And the creator or team behind it are big into changing the UI and gaslighting users Mozilla style. The last time they forced an entire UI overhaul on everyone they were seething when users were registering their forum to complain. They've also done the same thing Mozilla did with Firefox as well where they would turn automatic updates on secretly then wipe your block lists out without being able to back them up first.

Half of the battle with NoScript is fighting against the extension itself.

 

[The handsome tard]

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-premium-users-furious-as-platform-hikes-prices-to-40-are-they-nuts-2974929/

YouTube very sure of having beaten Adblocks, does what everyone fucking expected them to do, and tries hiking prices to $40 for YouTube premium.

The small issue is that they haven't killed adblock though lol

Wouldnt surprise me if they are that arrogant to think they have won.

Niggers

Jesus, I remember when it was like $5

And remember mfs legit said "oh, its just 5 bucks, no biggie"

Niggers

I dont even have an expansion, Braves built in adblock works as well. If they cant defeat that, how do they expect to defeat an autistic amount of work adblock devs put into them?

I guess the cashflow must be getting REALLY bad at youtube.

Yeah, Brave and Firefox are doing a good job at saying "Fuck you" to the ads without really any significant repercution.

Im almost let down, really, Google promised a "war" and thats the worst they can do? Make their shitty browser even more anti user friendly? ohh, Im so damn scared.

Niggers.

 

[Pee Cola]

If you're paying for YT when you can get GrayJay for a one-off $10 payment, you're doing it wrong.

Of course you could always treat GrayJay like WinRAR... but why wouldn't you want to support people who are actively fighting back against the ongoing enshittification of YT?

That said, NewPipe and ReVanced are excellent alternative YT apps too.... But in my experience, GrayJay has been the most reliable and least impacted by YT fuckery.

I just wish there was a desktop version of the GrayJay app, though Firefox with uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock + BlockTube + Return YouTube Dislikes, along with yt-dlp, go a long way towards deshittifying YT.

 

[soy woah jaque]

Some pajeet is archiving a bunch of baby monkey torture vids on preservetube

 

[TheHarbinger]

I just wish there was a desktop version of the GrayJay app, though Firefox with uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock + BlockTube + Return YouTube Dislikes, along with yt-dlp, go a long way towards deshittifying YT.

This is the new internet in a nutshell. Google owns everything. There are almost no worthwhile competitors. Users must download dozens of extensions and custom browser options just to properly use the most popular sites on the internet in any meaningful way. Those extensions are created by small teams of volunteers fighting against a trillion dollar corporations. Each year more and more extensions are abandoned and the volunteers admit defeat. And Google takes another aspect of the internet for itself.

 

[30+GameOvers]

y2mate seems to be working again, but now some other downloaders are fucked up for me. Maybe they use different methods of downloading videos, who knows.
Instances of invidious are fluctuating as well by the day, Nadeko still the only one that works almost 100% of the time.

 

[Bob Barbas]

y2mate seems to be working again

I guess they quickly realized that going full shill mode was not going to work out for them.
That being said, I will be suspicious of them from now on.

 

[Staffy]

This guy gets it. The other replies below it, not so much

From this thread.

 

[Colon capital V]

Revanced servers seems to be fucked rn, anyone else having issues?

 

[Fellen]

NewPipe and Tubular aren't working at the moment. Freetube is still working, so it's only a mobile problem.

Edit: Freetube isn't working now. So it's looking like YouTube rolled out another update.

Edit 2: Everything is working now.

 

[30+GameOvers]

y2mate still needs you to use their gay software on some downloads and not on others, must have something to do with filesize(bigger than 600mb is usually a no-go, 1080p is almost always closed off)
Even using other downloaders is a pain in the ass now. More of then than not, they will download a chunk of the video instead of the full thing and you will be left with an unusable corrupted one. yt-dlp works fine but every single video I download that way has to be re-encoded with Handbreak, which not only takes a substantial amount of time but also space on my hard drive.
Whoever is trying to make it as hard as possible to download these videos over at Google needs to neck themselves already.

 

[Civillian 18]

y2mate still needs you to use their gay software on some downloads and not on others, must have something to do with filesize(bigger than 600mb is usually a no-go, 1080p is almost always closed off)
Even using other downloaders is a pain in the ass now. More of then than not, they will download a chunk of the video instead of the full thing and you will be left with an unusable corrupted one. yt-dlp works fine but every single video I download that way has to be re-encoded with Handbreak, which not only takes a substantial amount of time but also space on my hard drive.
Whoever is trying to make it as hard as possible to download these videos over at Google needs to neck themselves already.

Why are you needing to re-encode? If you are already using yt-dlp you can specify your quality and format before you download with -f. You can also list the available ones with -F which does not download anything, just returns available formats.
So, to list available formats:

yt-dlp -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Then, select an audio only # and a video only # and:

yt-dlp -f 399+140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

 

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Why are you needing to re-encode? If you are already using yt-dlp you can specify your quality and format before you download with -f. You can also list the available ones with -F which does not download anything, just returns available formats.
So, to list available formats:

yt-dlp -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Then, select an audio only # and a video only # and:

yt-dlp -f 399+140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Alternatively, it has some quite flexible ways of specifying what you want, which can work with non-YouTube download sites as well and avoids you having to specify format numbers every time, and to tell it to reencode anything that would end up in say mkv containers to mp4- some excerpts from my bastardzed yt-dlp.conf

# 720p is enough for anyone
-f 'bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720]/best[ext=mp4]/best'

# Reencode
--recode mp4

 

[Civillian 18]

Alternatively, it has some quite flexible ways of specifying what you want, which can work with non-YouTube download sites as well and avoids you having to specify format numbers every time, and to tell it to reencode anything that would end up in say mkv containers to mp4- some excerpts from my bastardzed yt-dlp.conf

# 720p is enough for anyone
-f 'bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720]/best[ext=mp4]/best'

# Reencode
--recode mp4

yt-dlp has a bunch of different options, I have an 'archive this video' alias on my machine set up like so:

yt-dlp -S vcodec:h264,fps,res:720,acodec:m4a

Which overrides the per video definition of 'best' values to be h264 encode, any fps, 720p and m4a audio.

 

[The handsome tard]

I gotta let this out of my chest, I hate how cowardous the whole shadow banning is. Someone in a comment thread was trying to defend "allowing children to do whatever they want", they including LGBTQ because they would stay that way if they arent "doing it for attention" so if they are, they would naturally quit it sooner or later.
Now, I want to assume that we are all sane enough to think this mentality is absolutely derranged, especially in the times we live in. So, coupled with my already rotten mood caused by an unrelated thing, I replied to this comment with "LGBTQ are the result of unsolved trauma" and another similarly derranged comment with "They will never be a real woman".

Aaaand both comments were shadow banned. And yet all these comments motivating LGBTQ kids are allowed just fine.

I know this isnt anything new but God, I hate this platform.

 

[Colon capital V]

I gotta let this out of my chest, I hate how cowardous the whole shadow banning is. Someone in a comment thread was trying to defend "allowing children to do whatever they want", they including LGBTQ because they would stay that way if they arent "doing it for attention" so if they are, they would naturally quit it sooner or later.
Now, I want to assume that we are all sane enough to think this mentality is absolutely derranged, especially in the times we live in. So, coupled with my already rotten mood caused by an unrelated thing, I replied to this comment with "LGBTQ are the result of unsolved trauma" and another similarly derranged comment with "They will never be a real woman".

Aaaand both comments were shadow banned. And yet all these comments motivating LGBTQ kids are allowed just fine.

I know this isnt anything new but God, I hate this platform.

Something that has sent me into unreasonable, indescribable rage is when I leave a comment in response and a while later suddenly I get notifications of replies to a comment, not any to my comment, but just comments posted in a comment thread and I come to see my comment is deleted but this fucking kiked out app still gives me notifications of other people's comments.

Whoever is responsible for this should be caught and publicly lynched and flayed alive, in real life, not in minecraft.