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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (14 children)

youtube is the only thing I still have of theirs, maybe that is 1 too many.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    Recently, I’ve been experimenting with alternate video sites such as Odysee, PeerTube, and Nebula. I think I might manage without YT. There’s plenty enough to watch elsewhere. Haven’t made the switch yet, but I feel well prepared.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    I have looked at other video sites in the past and never found one that ticks the boxes, things change though, and there really does need to be other options.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    The public TV normally has a homepage with news, documentaries, series and movies on demand for free (at least in the EU, use VPN or proxie if country restricted content) eg.RTVE in Spain or ARD/ZDF in Germany, same in Pluto TV which is free also a lot of free content in Rakuten TV. For music there is Bandcamp, https://www.internet-radio.com/, Pixabay (yes, it has also music, above free downloadable (all CC license) or also the FMA. Odysee also is growing a lot in last years with content creators which have emigrated from YT. Search content in your search engine, not in YT.

    Certainly if you are looking for cat videos, clickbait shorts or AI slope, then there are really no alternatives to YT.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    Yeah, I know what you mean. This stack of sites doesn’t cover everything I use YT for. Regardless, I think they can tick enough boxes to form a viable option for me. It’s not perfect, but it’s usually good enough.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Probably something for me to look into again soon, maybe

    These days it seems like we are chasing our tails with all of this anti privacy bullshit, it is stupidly time consuming, and everything has to be treated as temporary anyway, just waiting for it also to become bullshit.

    Happy, happy, joy, joy

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    As long as you’re relying on a massive platform to kindly allow you to do your thing, it’s going to be an endless game of cat and mouse. Any solution you can come up with is destined to break soon. Once you step outside that setting, you’ll get a lot more privacy, but you’ll have to sacrifice the video selection.

    Think of it like trying to use chrome in s privacy respecting way. It’s a fools errand, since the whole point of chrome is to suck all of your data and relay it to Google. Switching to Firefox would solve those problems very easily.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    firefox also crossed lines, were called out for it and backpeddled somewhat, they can easily update to trash again any time they choose. I'm not sure to what level the forks are exempt from any changes.

    Point being, for the most part when it comes to tech, we have limited options.

    I already use linux, and lineageos without any google apps, I also use a vpn, expecting at any time at least one of those will also become non-viable, but not knowing what they will be replaced with, if anything.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'm using pipepipe on my phone, it's okay for what it does, I would rather be signed in to like and comment, but I'm not doing ID crap for that.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Enjoy it while it lasts. I have a feeling that YT is going to take the FB approach of slamming a login wall to your face at some point.

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