Had some issues a few days ago. Then the brave army of Brave browser helped quickly. The other browsers should be ok now too with addons. I do not see any problem with videos any more. Still, the dependance on Youtube is terrible, most of the vids are there and there is no serious alternative. One day, hopefully, there will be. Maybe we need to pivot and someone should come with something very new, unrestricted, moderated by community, unstoppable and with no ads. When you do not pay or do not use add blockers, watching anything is almost impossible.

I just discovered it because of your question, downloaded and it works. :)

"Comments are turned off"

I'm only going to click these Articles when my adblocker actually stops working, its basically clickbait until then.

There are alternatives, but there's nothing that pays and promotes like Youtube. The content creators are in it for the cash, or at the very least wouldn't not be in it if it weren't for the cash. They can't even dual post their Youtube stuff because it would be parasitic to their YT income.

fuck Youtube ads.

They will still inject ads to your home feed even if you get premium. I noticed the “Introducing” titled video recommendations which are usually 1-2 mins and they essentially place an item in your home feed. When I asked support they confirmed they were targeted ads but you don’t have to click them LMAO. Filthy lying company.

my folks pay for premium, and i have to sit through constant tide or liberty mutual commercials surrounding every video when i visit. i asked why they pay for premium and they say it’s worse without it

I'll give it a shot. I don't use flatpaks, but I think I've already disabled hardware acceleration for a previous issue? I'll report back once I've checked/tried it out.

download yt videos and lets reupload everything onto peertube idk

Are you sure they don't have Premium Lite?

what tf is premium lite? and to add, why tf is premium lite?

A cheaper tier than Premium that offers fewer features. Along with this, there's still some ads.

wow, like that’s the worst of all worlds

For what it's worth, I used a VPN on my Premium account many times over several years and never got banned, or even a warning. I would specifically use it to watch videos that were not normally available in my region.

I use Monero myself and I'm fully aware that NFTs are total scams. At least the way they were done several years ago. And probably still today. I stay away from all that mess.

I haven't seen the video, but am watching it now. It's always good to get multiple viewpoints on a subject.

As I said above though, I only use Monero so I don't feel as though I'm subject to all that NFT mess, but I do want to watch the video to see if they cover anything like that, but I doubt it.

I actually think there is some value in the way YT is trying to do it versus other streamer sites. Most are not available to you at all for free, even with ads. And then you can pay, but get ads, or you can pay more to get no ads (or still get some, in the case of like Prime Video that serves ads for their own shows but don't call those ads for some reason).

This is not a recommendation for it, to be clear.

No, you're thinking of Sprite, specifically the bottle caps.

You're laboring under the impression that consumer protection laws mean anything in the US. They don't. Unless it's something absolutely egregious, then maybe they might get a slap on the wrist. Maybe.

Another perfect example is my buddy who was looking at digital watches yesterday. The same watch was $100 more expensive on Amazon than at Walmart, and Prime prices are often higher than if you don't have Prime. I've also had Amazon completely lie to me about an item being on sale, claiming that it was 50% off on a Prime day sale, and then when I went and checked it the day after it turned out that it had been more like $5 off than the several hundred they claimed the sale would've saved. They marked it up wildly just to pretend that it was on sale. And they're not the only ones to have been caught doing that. Plenty of other places have been caught doing the same thing, but since they're big companies, unless you can get a settlement from a class action suit, nobody cares.

If YouTube ever gets rid of the reverse chronological subscriptions feed, I'm so out. I quit Twitter when they got rid of the reverse chronological feed forever ago, as it just felt useless and confusing at that point. As it is, YT is barely usable with premium, and is only enjoyable with revanced, Grayjay, and browser plugins. Sigh.

Reporting back, you were absolutely correct. Hardware acceleration was turned back on, and turning it off fixed the problem.

Please share a link to your peertube channel :)

Does https://yout-ube.com/ still work?

Is there an app on AppleTV that allows you to connect to a local instance?

Just use RSS

Updating Firefox suddenly fixed this for me. I then later just had my entire google account banned and I had to create a new account. They even attempted to IP ban me as well. Said I was banned until 2036 or something like that.

Theres a reason that youtube has no real competitor.

because the amount of data that gets uploaded to youtube every day, every hour, is unfathomable.

I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point. Just from a data center/harddrive point of view alone, the amount of money would be so staggering as to be impossible for anyone but another giant evil company to have a hope at being able to afford it.

There is no real way to compete with youtube directly.

Only options are things that are not direct youtube competitors, Which are typically much smaller, possibly maintaining a narrow subject focus, and require monthly fees/subscriptions to access

Ok Google, free us from our sins. Clense our souls, show us the way to green grass

Well if this happens to me it's off to pipe pipe or new pipe again.

spite and hatred are incredibly powerful motivators.

So you lost access to gmail as well?

Yes, I wonder why they hadn't done it yet, except for paid movies.

As usual they're deploying it in waves. I can confirm i get no description, no comments and when watching a playlist it will play the first few seconds then it will display "content unavailable" and switch to the next video. If I disable ublock origin or if I logout everything goes back to normal.

Comments can be useful to know if what you are watchin contains the information you're looking for

Stopped working for me last weekend if i'm logged in. Youtube deploy this kind of things in waves usually.

I've got the same deal. YouTube in my browser is effectively useless. But there are always ways to circumvent the bullshit.

yattee.

Your account got banned from YouTube, or you got banned from Google and it's apps?

What is the reverse thing?

Please reply to this dorumon

If it's a ban from the whole google echo-system that is fucked up.
I sadly still have a lot of important stuff linked to my google account.

PipePipe hasn't worked for me in a minute. Maybe because I'm using a VPN? Not sure.

i agree with you

i just use grayjay tbh

+, I've been untangling from Google for years, still find the odd thing going to Gmail that could screw me over

I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point.

There is. People just wouldn't like it. Lowering the resolution and framerates massively to save on space. The nerds (derogatory) would trash the platform everywhere they can have a voice if it doesn't support 4k 120fps, though.

Yeah, they probably already have the tooling in place. Maybe the power (heat + work) cost to encode a Mr. Beast video hurts the profit too much.

Maybe they're afraid of putting widevine at the working end of the likes of ublock origin and brave. iIIRC some of the WV keys are in the wild, they just keep em close to the action not to make them rotate them out.

Wut? I just avoid u toob most of the time - problem solved. Rarely do I have a web search that would be solved by watching a video.

the amount of money would be so staggering as to be impossible for anyone but another giant evil company to have a hope at being able to afford it... FACK

Even if you limit it to 720p, if it were to be even a quarter as popular as youtube, the bandwith and storage requirements would still be astronomical.

not to even mention the computational power required to process and transcode all that data from whatever format you upload it to, into whatever format the platform wants.