Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

[purpleflurp]

That's why you physically disconnect your mic just in case and don't use yt on the phone. The devices have a "feature" (bug) that uses the names of the wifi connections in your areas to geolocate you (It's why you can't permanently turn that off and wifi turns on in apple I think). More likely than not it was reading your cookies or you typed in, or fingerprinted you via your IP, usage time, and your browser fonts + screen size + Javascript + Timezone offset etc.

Personally I run a dedicated 2 seperate VMs to browsing the net. One for everything bank/tax/gov related that's critical. One for all else. This doesn't include the kiwifarms sperg account.

Maybe someday they'll be a program to do random searches and stuff to obfuscate your browsing habits.

I should've clarified the painting videos were ones that I was uploading to the same channel I use for watching stuff on. But if they're using my videos or the info I submitted for monetization to serve targeted ads then I guess that's just egg on my face.

You've got a good idea with the separate instances though. Might have to look into a VM or bootable USB for the YT shit while my main machine does the daily driver shit.

I'll climb the tree of life without your help!

Just find Sleipnir, he'll lead you to world tree.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

Youtube is one of the last major platforms I use these days. It's nice for niche music and I'm kicking myself for not keeping track of the stuff I've liked over the years. I've grown so used to ad-free bliss I don't think I could go back unless for the most dire of DIY repair problems.

I really think they underestimate the lengths people will go to avoid ads. I would rather download a video, scan it for ads, edit them out in software, and then watch the video before I let them shove shit to consoom into my face. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

Removing dislikes was a fucking nightmare for DIY mechanics like myself. There are videos with misleading titles, bad explanations, guys claiming it’s an easy repair when they’ve got some tool that costs more than the car, intentionally vague videos intended to get people to bring the car to an auto shop, and just plain wrong shit.

I have a whitelist of known good car repair channels and I ignore everything else.

I guess if YouTube goes away I’ll have to use the Haynes manual.

I’m currently in the process of downloading all the 1A Auto repairs for my car. I’m glad I learned to use YT-DLP from archiving a lolcow’s entire 600+ video channel into an archive before he deleted his channel.

Once I’m done with my car, I’m going to do similar cars and put them up on ThePirateBay.

 

[CoolGuy1990]

Rumble has enough Jewish blood in it to keep it solvent monetarily. It seems to be doing OK. It is pretty rough as as service though.

Don't lie jersh Bossmans gamba seshs are the think keeping that website afloat they just keep paying him in fear that he'll fuck all there moms if they deprive a hard working gambler his crack rock

 

[Null]

Don't lie jersh Bossmans gamba seshs are the think keeping that website afloat they just keep paying him in fear that he'll fuck all there moms if they deprive a hard working gambler his crack rock

That's Kick.

 

[JoeyJoJo]

Gentlemen.

It's 2024 and we are experiencing late stage YouTube. The economical situation of the United States and the world at large is forcing the largest companies to make sudden and drastic decisions to try and keep their income higher than their operating expenses, whereas in the past it seemed even the largest companies were happy to operate at a loss or with no profit for years. YouTube in particular had been terminally unprofitable for years, and it seems that pajeet CEOs are calling it: make some fucking money.

YouTube is experimenting with a Final Solution to the Adblocker problem, similar to Twitch, where they inject ads directly into the bitstreams that make up a video, so that an ad is technologically indistinguishable from the content you've requested.

I believe, therefore, that I should remind people that the only thing they truly have is whatever they personally own. In this context, I am referring to downloading copies of videos. I wrote a guide to this here:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/archival-tools.6561/

For many of you, YouTube will be a place where you've saved videos for over a decade. It's time to save what you want off the platform before they start doing more dumb shit. Whatever you want to keep forever on YouTube should be downloaded as soon as possible.

Are there any lolcow channels I should be archiving?

YouTube has been getting worse and worse each year ever since the Viacom lawsuit. It's amazing how ad filled and overly censored that site has become, literally worse than TV now

 

[std::string]

There are videos with misleading titles, bad explanations, guys claiming it’s an easy repair when they’ve got some tool that costs more than the car, intentionally vague videos intended to get people to bring the car to an auto shop, and just plain wrong shit.

My favorite is the guy who clearly knows what he's doing, explains the repair you need to make and then suddenly it cuts to a five minute monologue about how you should accept Jesus as your lord and savior. And then after that, he demonstrates it.

Buddy this ain't a revival I just want to fix my Maserati.

 

[2 Faces 2 Colours]

The preinstalled AdBlock in my Brave has not let me down so far, hopefully they come in clutch for this update when it comes.

 

[Catboy Ranch]

I'll climb the tree of life without your help!

`y g g d r a s i l n e t w o r k`

i've already said too much

 

[purpleflurp]

My favorite is the guy who clearly knows what he's doing, explains the repair you need to make and then suddenly it cuts to a five minute monologue about how you should accept Jesus as your lord and savior. And then after that, he demonstrates it.

Buddy this ain't a revival I just want to fix my Maserati.

I heard of praying to the machine spirits, but that's a bit much.

 

[Brabbit Narp]

I'll add on to the recommended video downloaders and plop Tartube down here.

I've recommended the program before, and thus far it has served me well. It's a good GUI for those that are not inclined to tamper down too much with the command line, and it's quite feature rich to boot, save for a few items on the docket that it lacks.

Otherwise, my primary issue is locating good storage that is both good and cheap. I've heard it echoed in the thread here that it is apparently quite cheap. But if so, I must be looking at the wrong places, because the stuff I have been looking up costs quite the pretty penny. Granted, it might be that my search parameters are inadequate to the task at hand and that the usual search results are just tampered with by my search engine of choice.

Regardless, I am close to filling up one of my 4tb drives, and the other will probably soon follow in the wake of this news. Add in redundancies for fear of drive failure, and it all starts to add up very quickly. I've been looking to see if there are any decent beginner NAS for linux users such as myself, but there doesn't appear to be any good material out there for beginners to such a thing. I'd like to invest, but I hardly know where to start. Too much information to analyze and digest. And I have terabytes upon terabytes of channels and old playlists I still need to archive going all the way back to 2009. I've been diligent in trying to archive what I like, but I have only made a dent in it thus far.

 

[DickMain]

The preinstalled AdBlock in my Brave has not let me down so far, hopefully they come in clutch for this update when it comes.

It's already live. I've been dealing with it for the better part of two weeks now myself. It's kind of funny, because I was actually using the search bar here to look for anybody who might've been having similar issues at the time.

 

[afounder]

Gentlemen.

It's 2024 and we are experiencing late stage YouTube. The economical situation of the United States and the world at large is forcing the largest companies to make sudden and drastic decisions to try and keep their income higher than their operating expenses, whereas in the past it seemed even the largest companies were happy to operate at a loss or with no profit for years. YouTube in particular had been terminally unprofitable for years, and it seems that pajeet CEOs are calling it: make some fucking money.

YouTube is experimenting with a Final Solution to the Adblocker problem, similar to Twitch, where they inject ads directly into the bitstreams that make up a video, so that an ad is technologically indistinguishable from the content you've requested.

I believe, therefore, that I should remind people that the only thing they truly have is whatever they personally own. In this context, I am referring to downloading copies of videos. I wrote a guide to this here:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/archival-tools.6561/

For many of you, YouTube will be a place where you've saved videos for over a decade. It's time to save what you want off the platform before they start doing more dumb shit. Whatever you want to keep forever on YouTube should be downloaded as soon as possible.

Are there any lolcow channels I should be archiving?

Eventually they're going to be trying to project ads into our minds, so we can't avoid seeing or hearing them.

At which point I'd probably just end it.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

This makes me realise there are literally no YouTube videos I would consider worth saving for posterity. For a platform with such potential, it really has limboed under the bar.

 

[CEO of Gay]

You could, in theory, make an advertisement for KiwiFarms

If a troon or chaser caught wind of just a single impression of such an ad, the autistic screeching would be visible on seismographs across the world.

I want to see what adblockers like Brave can do to circumvent it before I buy a 8tb HDD and start mass downloading everything.

Take it from oldfags who have already seen things they liked on the Internet disappear forever, never to return. By the time adblockers have failed you personally, it will likely be too late for you to save the videos you'll wish you had kept.

I guess if YouTube goes away I’ll have to use the Haynes manual.

This is a depressing thought. I remember those Chiltons and Haynes manuals. While useful, they were always long on text that wasn't always clear, and short on pictures which made the text instructions make sense. When how-to videos for car repair started showing up on YouTube, they were a breath of fresh air. All of a sudden, how to remove the center console housing so you can replace a broken sensor on the shift selector was clear. It was right there in front of you. You could see exactly where that last fucking screw that held it in place was. Having to go back to "Depress clutch. Use a 14/57ths oblique angle left-handed ring clip spanner to remove the retention spring," feels like returning to the stone age.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

My favorite is the guy who clearly knows what he's doing, explains the repair you need to make and then suddenly it cuts to a five minute monologue about how you should accept Jesus as your lord and savior. And then after that, he demonstrates it.

Buddy this ain't a revival I just want to fix my Maserati.

One of the few good things YouTube did recently is the little graph at the bottom that shows the important parts of the video. I’m not trying to hear this guy’s life story when I just want to learn how to replace my car’s valve cover gasket so it stops leaking oil.

1A is kind of special though because they don’t need ads. The video itself is the ad for 1A’s parts. Based strategy.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Removing dislikes was a fucking nightmare for DIY mechanics like myself. There are videos with misleading titles, bad explanations, guys claiming it’s an easy repair when they’ve got some tool that costs more than the car, intentionally vague videos intended to get people to bring the car to an auto shop, and just plain wrong shit.

I have a whitelist of known good car repair channels and I ignore everything else.

I guess if YouTube goes away I’ll have to use the Haynes manual.

I’m currently in the process of downloading all the 1A Auto repairs for my car. I’m glad I learned to use YT-DLP from archiving a lolcow’s entire 600+ video channel into an archive before he deleted his channel.

Once I’m done with my car, I’m going to do similar cars and put them up on ThePirateBay.

OEM repair manuals are good. That and basics of fabrication.

Which reminds me, if there's any instructional videos made by an reputable institution on older, niche subjects like plastic repair, radiator re-coring, how to make ballbearings (it's hard as fuck despite how simple it looks) etc you should probably save them before it is too late. There's not too many folks I know that can re-core a condensor these days.

 

[purpleflurp]

One of the few good things YouTube did recently is the little graph at the bottom that shows the important parts of the video. I’m not trying to hear this guy’s life story when I just want to learn how to replace my car’s valve cover gasket so it stops leaking oil.

1A is kind of special though because they don’t need ads. The video itself is the ad for 1A’s parts. Based strategy.

A very niche strategy given how few creators can actually make and sell their own shit, but damn does it get results.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

I'm a retard that doesn't know how to use yt-dl, I definitely need some help archiving videos for my favourite channels.

 

[trash cat]

I'm a retard that doesn't know how to use yt-dl, I definitely need some help archiving videos for my favourite channels.

If you can't figure out yt-dlp try cut / pasting the YT video url to 9convert.com or yt1s.xyz or other similar sites.

One could use AI to monitor for prompts and automatically say the response, thus allowing the two utterly worthless systems to cancel each other out.

using FOSS ML to engage in asymmetric warfare against companies is a funny idea.

First I hate ads and I will stop watching entirely before I pay YouTube ransom money.

Second there are definitely ways to detect ads injected into the stream, but in a true arms race Google is just too well funded and controls the phone os, the TV os, some laptop os, etc.

Best case even then is staring at a black screen for a few minutes... like in the long long ago when there was ad blocking for broadcast TV.

Overall this Google stuff is just another example of monopolistic rent-seeking behavior. Become a large player then make the service suck, unless your customers pay an "extra" subscription fee to make it suck slightly less. and jack up the price when you have crushed your competition.

All the big companies and governments are looting the system in various ways, and are protected from above. Google in particular is so attached at the hip to the Intelligence Community (IC) that they are untouchable.

Google needs to be smashed into a million pieces with the Sherman Antitrust Act but I'm not holding my breath.

Until then I'll just keep downloading my favorite videos.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

If you can't figure out yt-dlp try cut / pasting the YT video url to 9convert.com or yt1s.xyz or other similar sites.

You're a godsend. Thank you very much.

Time to fill my hard drive with videos to survive this shit.