Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

Anonitolia said:
I'm getting this too, but... for some reason, only in Incognito? Sometimes it won't load at all or it'll load 19 seconds and then pause. But if I'm logged in on a normal browser it's all good.

Makes me suspicious. Are they trying to farm data off of uBlock users to hammer their accounts later or something? Maybe i'm just paranoid. Still, at least I can still use YouTube I guess. Not that I want to, but I can't afford the extra space I'd need to back up all the music I listen to on there + the videos I used to like and want to keep.
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spoke too soon, videos won't even load anymore. Just eternal buffering lol. Anybody got a link to that one site that keeps you up to date on whether uBlock Origin has found a workaround for that shit? I lost the link a while back and my browser's history doesn't extend that far into the past, so I'd appreciate it greatly.
 
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youtube's still not working with ublock though. They've been pushing out updates basically every day and yet none of them seem to work, it's really odd
maybe youtube staff are just so hyperfocused on stopping ublock that they're seeing every update as it happens and applying shit asap to get it to stop working
 
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Anonitolia said:
youtube's still borked with ublock though. They've been pushing out updates basically every day and yet none of them seem to work, it's really odd
maybe youtube staff are just so hyperfocused on stopping ublock that they're seeing every update as it happens and applying shit asap to get it to stop working
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Pajeets are working overtime like the mud bug men that they are. It was either that or shitting on the street.

Brave seems to be holding up tho.
 
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Last Invidious instance has given up the ghost and so are the online downloaders I used up to this point. yt-dlp and PreserveTube is all I have at this point.
I am giving FreeTube a shot. If it works, I might just stick to that until that stops working too.
 
30+GameOvers said:
Last Invidious instance has given up the ghost and so are the online downloaders I used up to this point. yt-dlp and PreserveTube is all I have at this point.
I am giving FreeTube a shot. If it works, I might just stick to that until that stops working too.
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freetube is really good, only thing you can't do is comment and like/dislike
 
I just got Brave today as my chrome decided to remove my long time use of uBlock Origin extension. It is much better here than in Chrome.
 
CEO of Autism said:
YouTube's 1080p quality looks like fucking ass these days, it's like they use the lowest bitrate they can get away with. I've seen literal 480p videos that look better stretched to full screen than YT's 1080p videos.
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I have been wondering if YouTube has intentionally made video bitrate actively worse as the years go by, since I felt like 720p videos used looked good in the early 2010s. But now 720p or below makes some videos outright unwatchable due to how blurry as shit it all is if too much is happening at once.
 
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Colon capital V said:
I have been wondering if YouTube has intentionally made video bitrate actively worse as the years go by, since I felt like 720p videos used looked good in the early 2010s. But now 720p or below makes some videos outright unwatchable due to how blurry as shit it all is if too much is happening at once.
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Given how these are the experts of the boiling of the frogs routine, it wouldnt surprise me.
 
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Incoming DRM for the entire site?

"We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

Edit: I noticed this issue has received some attention and the technical YouTube jargon is confusing, so for clarity:

There appears to be an experiment (or A/B test) on some YouTube accounts where, when logged into YouTube on TV, are seeing every YouTube video protected by DRM.

YouTube on TV is the big picture interface/app used on TVs, game consoles, etc. You can access it at https://www.youtube.com/tv (with a TV/game console user agent).


This impacts yt-dlp as we currently request video data from YouTube as if we were YouTube on TV."
 
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Jang Joo said:
Incoming DRM for the entire site?

"We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

Edit: I noticed this issue has received some attention and the technical YouTube jargon is confusing, so for clarity:

There appears to be an experiment (or A/B test) on some YouTube accounts where, when logged into YouTube on TV, are seeing every YouTube video protected by DRM.

YouTube on TV is the big picture interface/app used on TVs, game consoles, etc. You can access it at https://www.youtube.com/tv (with a TV/game console user agent).


This impacts yt-dlp as we currently request video data from YouTube as if we were YouTube on TV."
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Well son of a bitch, that sounds like it'll be the death knell for downloading YouTube videos en mass as we know it. The next logical conclusion would probably for the website to start testing to see if certain recording software like OBS is active if this goes into effect. I've been selective about what videos I download due to limited storage space at the moment, but it seems I'll have to expedite and be more aggressive in my efforts.

I'd recommend you post this to the the two Youtube-DLP threads as well, too.


In any case, I am on the hunt for more storage. I am curious if those external hard drive bays are decent, seeing as I don't have the dosh on me to afford a fancy NAS/DAS plus redundancy for the time being. I more videos than I storage that I want to archive by an order of magnitude, but beggars can't be choosers.
 
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YT really doesn't want anyone watching without seeing ads if they aren't paying for Premium. Typical Google/Alphabet shenanigans though, and not all that surprising considering they've been trying to turn YT into just another streaming service for quite a few years now. Them adding DRM to all the videos on the platform has long been theorized as a future step, so I don't think this was done just to fuck with programs like yt-dlp, youtube-dl, etc.

It's a real shame. YT used to be a place where you could upload damn near whatever you wanted and potentially gain an audience. Now it's just chock-full of the same kind of trash you'll find on pretty much any of the main streaming services, with the addition of approved "independent" creators being the only ones promoted. If you're making videos that YT doesn't like or they can't make money on, they'll limit your reach or just outright ban you.
 
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