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Have you changed you youtube pfp to clippy ? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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This community usually discusses consumer rights, but nobody is discussing this initiative. Is it maybe cuz Lemmy's majority ain't American?

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm on the same boat, except for the part about not using Youtube. Unfortunately I'm caught in that spiral where I watch every clickbait_y video about new programming language, new tech stack ...ect. Are you able to watch every video normally with invidious and newpipe on Desktop (Linux/Windows) ? My experience wasn't going that well, also Youtube is so good because of the bandwidth and you easily switch quality.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Are you able to watch every video normally with invidious and newpipe on Desktop (Linux/Windows) ?

    In my experience, yes. For desktop usage you can use invidious from browser and freetube [https://freetubeapp.io/] as external client/software (but I've never used Freetube so I can't comment on that). Newpipe is android only and I HIGHLY recommend it if you have Android.

    The problem with invidious instances is that sometimes they get pretty laggy because of server overloads (I guess? honestly idk). You also don't have your account tailored recommendation, but in my experience you can jump around a lot, especially if your main interest are programming videos.

    Another method I use is downloading the videos I'm interested into using JDownloader 2, but that's pretty extreme and I relied on this to combat my "algorithm addiction". Got fed up by it months ago, so I put my favourite channels on a RSS feeds and downloaded only the videos I was truly interested into. Usually downloading videos require way less bandwidth than streaming.

    (edited for spelling errors, eh)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I remember using Newpipe before my Android device got stolen, but back then I got recommended so much normie stuff, and comment were flooded with nsfw accounts (weird profile pictures)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If I remember correctly you can use ReVanced to login into your Youtube account and have an experience similar to Newpipe. You'd probably have better recommendations (the bot comments depends on the channel though). I've never looked into it, but it seems a popular choice.

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