Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

[Google.com]

Question. Are these external hard drives as seen here any good?
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The reviews on them say they are, but Amazon reviews are notoriously suspect, and I am suspicious of other sites that echo positive sentiments on these products for similar reasons. If not, are there any recommendations here for mass archival? I've been stepping up archiving stuff on my end, but there's still so much out there that I need to get on offline archival. I am fortunate that I have not suffered a critical drive failure in my life, but I am paranoid that any drives list here or elsewhere might kick the bucket unexpectedly. I always strive for to have at least one backup of anything I have, but other than these reviews, what do you Kiwis think of them? I'd like to have at least something that I can reliably backup to without *too* much worry for it kicking the bucket. It's inevitable, but having peace of mind is nice.

Been looking into the NAS stuff as well, but I don't have any experience with that sort of stuff, and I don't know where to start as far as Linux related compatibilities are concerned.

I keep all of my videos on an 8tb slow speed hard drive and connect it with a portable dock or on my desktop I have a port on the front I can insert hard drives in via a little rack thing. If your planning on storing a lot thats probably the way to go imo, since purpose built external drives will add up at higher sizes.

 

[Brabbit Narp]

I keep all of my videos on an 8tb slow speed hard drive and connect it with a portable dock or on my desktop I have a port on the front I can insert hard drives in via a little rack thing. If your planning on storing a lot thats probably the way to go imo, since purpose built external drives will add up at higher sizes.

I see. Mind doxxing your setup with pics to give an idea of what it looks like, plus a few recommendations that you personally have good experience on?

 

[Google.com]

I see. Mind doxxing your setup with pics to give an idea of what it looks like, plus a few recommendations that you personally have good experience on?

I personally prefer WD but thats mainly because when I was first getting into computers Seagate had a history of high failure rates but I think they've corrected that. I do have one Seagate drive that i've had no issues with but my oldest WD drive is 12 years old and has a lot of hours on it and still is working perfectly so I am still pretty keen on WD personally.

I currently have two of these that I swap around. The slot thing I use on my PC is this but find one off ebay because this is not worth $40. I don't remember what dock I use for mobile but there are a million different ones out there if you just look up portable hard drive dock, just make sure to read reviews because some just flat out don't work.

I cant't send pictures at the moment but the Startech bay goes into one of those front expansion panels on your PC case where you'd normally put like a CD drive. You got to screw the drive into the caddy so its a bit annoying sometimes, and it doesn't really fit any SSD.

 

[std::string]

There would probably have to be advertising, and things like super chats and whatnot. But what if the split were different, favoring the creator more fairly (they did the work, after all), and what if advertising were limited to shorter time spans? That would fit with today's impatient audience. Most people would rather sit through a ten second ad rather than a thirty second one. Especially if there were only so many ad breaks allowed in a video, unlike on YouTube where they can apparently jam in as many as they want, the longer the better. Maybe text based ads are another option. And yes, possibly a paid tier for further access to better features, and maybe a "pro" teir for big channels. I wouldn't mind any of those in principle. Both the platform and the content creators deserve to make a buck, so long as the method/s they use are not abused or intrusive, or otherwise prevent anyone maintaining their sanity as an end user.

How about this hypothetical model:

1. Content creators pay to upload stuff.
2. They get a favorable split of ad revenue. Should be as close to 100% as possible.
3. They have full control over which ads are shown during their videos and when they're shown. They also have the option to turn ads off entirely if they want.

This puts up a barrier to entry against low-effort Pajeet nonsense and also puts the onus on the content creator to figure out how to balance ad revenue vs. how many ads viewers are willing to put up with.

 

[New & Improved Username]

Smart Tube even blocks the ads spoken by the creator, like when they schill as part of the video. It sometimes blocks intro elements too (maybe identifying them as ads). I don't know how youtube will defeat that. God I hope youtube can't defeat that.

 

[Civillian 18]

Smart Tube even blocks the ads spoken by the creator, like when they schill as part of the video. It sometimes blocks intro elements too (maybe identifying them as ads). I don't know how youtube will defeat that. God I hope youtube can't defeat that.

This is SponsorBlock integrated into SmartTube(Next?). So this is a community effort of viewing the video raw, then submitting timestamps for different levels of video-AIDS to be avoided by the lucky people to view it later.

 

[Horribadger]

I wonder how effective it would be for all of us fuckwits to decide on a new platform and congregate on it. Like, give it a boost, cultivate a community. Maybe try and flood out some of the normie-repelling right wing slop that's been mentioned here.

The Internet used to be full of alternative websites, why can't the normies make little hops when it comes to YouTube when they'll shit themselves and run to fucking threads and bluesky over minor disagreements with the owner?

Makes me wonder what it would take to get the normies to flee Youtube like that...

 

[geckogoy]

The main thing keeping youtube in business is the fact that they are run at a huge net loss because monopoly on the flow of information is worth it, as youtube is part of a much larger operation. Secondarily, they have an impossible-to-replicate advertising setup. That whole walled garden of automated ad bidding they do is never going to be shared with anyone unless they are forced. They are way too happy being able to lock out the mean meanyheads they don't like from being able to make money.

Also afaik hosting isn't really the biggest expense, its more about compensating the creators. That expense is the real reason they are still a monopoly.

Imagine you convince 10% of your audience to go to rumble or bitchute or whatever, and then your quite substantial youtube ad revenue declines by 10% for the simple reason that your viewership was cannibalized by this alternate platform. You then come to the realization that if you ever convince your whole audience to migrate, you will make way less money and immediately change your mind.

If youtube ever lose the ability to pay the creators what they are paying, patreon/merch could conceivably become the principle source of income at which point it would be a lot easier for people to focus on multiple platforms. As it is, youtube pays so much better that they will actively try to make sure all their viewers view them on that one place.

 

[UtopiaGuy]

If youtube ever lose the ability to pay the creators what they are paying, patreon/merch could conceivably become the principle source of income at which point it would be a lot easier for people to focus on multiple platforms. As it is, youtube pays so much better that they will actively try to make sure all their viewers view them on that one place.

Right now, the leading advice is not to depend on revenue streams from YouTube, since it pays pennies for most creators. Instead, those in the know say to cultivate sponsorships and e-mail lists to push services, courses, or channel brand based merch. Sponsorships and online courses are a goldmine for most creators. Some artists also push paintings on eBay or Etsy using the YouTube channel as a way to draw in customers for their art.

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

Is this new? Youtube "Free with Ads" content won't load in Brave, presumably because of the adblocker.


Clicking "learn more" takes you to this page, which in my case says my browser IS "up to date."
(Before anyone asks, yes I tried enabling Widevine, that doesn't make a difference.)

Is there a workaround? I saw this brave help thread but the guy in it was using a VPN that caused the issue.

 

[Horribadger]

Is this new? Youtube "Free with Ads" content won't load in Brave, presumably because of the adblocker.

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Clicking "learn more" takes you to this page, which in my case says my browser IS "up to date."
(Before anyone asks, yes I tried enabling Widevine, that doesn't make a difference.)

Is there a workaround? I saw this brave help thread but the guy in it was using a VPN that caused the issue.

I've gotten this a few times. Reloading the page seems to fix it. Probably there's just some type of ad that breaks if it can't load, and refreshing to get a different ad fixes it.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

Today is Eid al-Adha. To celebrate, I am saving videos of qurbani camel slaughters. People need to know that “normal” Muzzies do an ISIS execution of a camel every year.

Spoiler: Animal cruelty but it has cultural and religious significance.

Yes they butcher the camel and share it with the poor but kids are watching. It’s probably intended to prime Muslims to commit violence on behalf of Islam. And now Susan won’t be able to hide this inconvenient truth.

 

[Cubanodun]

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/20586#issuecomment-1805966008

The madlads of Ublock have already found a way to bypass the ads, very experimental but supposedly has worked in all the cases the ads have been found, not tested it myself

 

[GarthBrooks]

I just had a brillant idea: scrap alternative video sites and download all of your watch history as MP3s. If we got only the audio, it would be enough, as most videos do not require much visual aid. For example, if someone mentions Will Smith's ugly hair, you could just look up a picture of him. MP3s use basically no bandwidth; a 3-hour podcast is like 80 MB at most. That's why there are so many podcast hosting platforms and not video platforms.

TLDR download videos as MP3 then make a torrent for the farms

thoughts?

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/20586#issuecomment-1805966008

The madlads of Ublock have already found a way to bypass the ads, very experimental but supposedly has worked in all the cases the ads have been found, not tested it myself

Begun, the ad-injection wars have.

 

[DicksOutForKiwigglers]

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/20586#issuecomment-1805966008

The madlads of Ublock have already found a way to bypass the ads, very experimental but supposedly has worked in all the cases the ads have been found, not tested it myself

It works but it is very rough. The ad will usually start and then get skipped in like half a second. Also, watch later playlists are immune right now for some reason. Still, a step in the right direction. The really cool thing is that when the ad is skipped, it logs a "false ad start" to YouTube. Because YouTube is being paid by advertisers to shill their bullshit, a false ad start costs YouTube money because it means the ad the advertiser paid for isn't being played.

The hope is that if enough people start skipping the ads like this YouTube will get the message and stop doing ad injections. It's fucking beautiful. The level of sheer spite and intelligent of those who fucking hate YouTube and ads is amazing. If nothing else, they're going to make sure YouTube loses money over this. The bit question is if YouTube will care, which is probably not.

 

[Sooty Soot]

Today is Eid al-Adha. To celebrate, I am saving videos of qurbani camel slaughters. People need to know that “normal” Muzzies do an ISIS execution of a camel every year.

Spoiler: Animal cruelty but it has cultural and religious significance.

Yes they butcher the camel and share it with the poor but kids are watching. It’s probably intended to prime Muslims to commit violence on behalf of Islam. And now Susan won’t be able to hide this inconvenient truth.

shlomo wrote this from his kibbutz in negev

 

[The handsome tard]

commenting is a crapshoot, like 2 out of 3 times i comment anything it gets instantly deleted, respectful, mild, uncontroversial or not, doesn't even matter. You'd have to tongue nigger and tranny anus or else it goes. The Terminator irl is a tranny janny algorithm.

I had a comment that said that McCarthy was right, that he was a dick but he was right. It was shadow banned. I made another one where I said the same thing but I used "unpleasant" instead of dick and it worked.

So you mean I cant even say the word "dick" ? Sometimes idk if this is because their system is crapshoot or if this is truly what they meant it to do. All the edge and even dare say say humanity is just gone.

>25% of US web users use adblockers.
That's billions of dollars worth of potential ad revenue.

They are still earning 75% worth of those billions and I know that Google is starved for money, arent they?

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

shlomo wrote this from his kibbutz in negev
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shlomo wrote this from his kibbutz in negev
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I hate the Jews
I hate the Jews
I hate the Jews

 

[I'm a Silly]

this is janky, but easy: already have uBlock Origin extension.
then right-click on yt link and choose guest tab = no ads.
or, if that doesn't work for some reason, pause bc fuck seeing any more of the ad, and type "nsfw" directly in front of the "y" in the url.
again, if you already have the uBlock Origin extension, whatever garbage awaits you after doing the above simply won't be there, plus it enables downloading.
and -- since the best way to get an answer on the Internet is to be wrong, feel free to tell me why what I'm doing is stupid.
Please and Thank You.

update: now uBlock Origin seems to be extremely effective, and breaking Twitch ads as well as those on YouTube. What a time to be alive.