• OFS_Razgriz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            1 年前

            Yes. You can block ads by creating a special script, you can find the info on how to do that at the end of this GitHub ticket but I’ll paste it here too.

            1. Navigate to the uBlock Origin Dashboard (the extension options)

            2. Under the My filters tab add twitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad).

            3. Under the Settings tab, enable I am an advanced user, then click the cog that appears.

            4. Modify the value of userResourcesLocation from unset to the URL https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions/raw/master/vaft/vaft-ublock-origin.js

            Then just disable and reenable uBlock to refresh it and you should be good to go.

      • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
        61·
        1 年前

        Then I won’t use youtube since the content is not really worth watching ads or paying for.

    • HolyDriver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 年前

      I use adblocker in Firefox mobile. Noticed YouTube keeps downgrading the quality on every video load even tho higher quality is set to auto

  • EinarEnglish
    36·
    1 年前

    PeerTube needs more traction.

    • orbitt@kbin.social
      8·
      1 年前

      PLEASE - Just do anything to give Youtube a run for its money. They’re steamrolling right now due to the promise of ad-revenue to streamers though. Idk how to fight that

    • saucyloggins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 年前

      How does PeerTube handle storage? I’m trying to imagine trying to create a federated system version of Youtube and it seems very problematic. Storage and bandwidth.

      • EinarEnglish
        9·
        1 年前

        Quoting Wikipedia:

        Each PeerTube instance provides a website to browse and watch videos, and is by default independent from others in terms of appearance, features and rules.

        Several instances, with common rules (e.g. allowing for similar content, requiring registration) can form federations, where they follow one’s videos, even though each video is stored only by the instance that published it. Federations are independent from each other and asymmetrical: one instance can follow another to display their videos without them having to do the same. Instances’ administrators can each choose to mirror individual videos or whole friend instances, creating an incentive to build communities of shared bandwidth.

        Videos are made available via HTTP to download, but playback favors a peer-to-peer playback using HLS and WebTorrent. Users connected to the platform act as relay points that send pieces of video to other users, lessening the bandwidth of each to the server and thus allowing smaller hardware to operate at a lower cost.

        Wikipedia Source

            • saucyloggins@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              1 年前

              Yeah, but Lemmy instances don’t split bandwidth P2P. Imagine hosting a video on some cheap cloud instance that doesn’t have any kind of traffic sharing and putting some brand new game trailer up like Diablo 4, then someone links your video copy on something like Reddit. You’d get obliterated if all the video traffic was just coming from your server.

            • Syboxez@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 年前

              Peertube also uses ActivityPub, so theoretically, you can follow channels in Lemmy or Lemmy posts in PeerTube. Same with Mastodon. Not sure exactly how that works, though.

              Kind of like how KBin also uses ActivityPub, so Lemmy users can use KBin magazines as if they were Lemmy communities.

              • fuser@quex.ccEnglish
                3·
                1 年前

                Thanks! Peertube looks like the perfect foundation, at least for the current scale. You can post peertube urls in Mastodon or Lemmy and share the comment stream over the fediverse. We are in the earliest days right now, but it is on!

      • EinarEnglish
        5·
        1 年前

        I had the same questions. The first one is answered here better than I could.

        As to monetization, I would think that that’s up to the creator. The Patreon model, sponsors. Like that.

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    1 年前

    I use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock for YouTube and I haven’t seen an ad in ages. When I do see an ad, it’s because I’m trying to browse on somebody else’s computer.

    SponsorBlock in particular is life changing. You don’t realize how much nonsense filler is in these videos. You can easily cut a 10 minute video from a mainstream YouTuber down to like 6 or 7 minutes worth of content if you skip intros, skip recaps, skip sponsorships and product plugs, and skip interaction reminders.

  • dog@yiffit.netEnglish
    31·
    1 年前

    reddit and youtube really shouting out how much companies don’t give two farts about its users. there’s so much wholesome and educational content on youtube but, dogs forbid, youtube make $5 fewer in revenue than yesterday 🙄 i can’t wait for grassroots decentralization of the internet, including video

    • Striker@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      26·
      1 年前

      Youtube has been consistently getting worse for the past 10 years now. I keep going back because that’s where all the good content is and I don’t think anyone could possibly create an alternative. It would just cost too much money.

      • dog@yiffit.netEnglish
        6·
        1 年前

        idk, some of my fellow tech furries have ridiculously large homelabs and servers that have massive amounts of storage. i don’t think it’s impossible, but may require someone to come up with a way for us to decentralize video which, ofc, is humungo-bonzonga-jumbo

        • RoyRogersMcFreely@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          131·
          1 年前

          What’s missing is a monetization strategy. Any social media platform at a scale larger than a small community is going to require some kind of revenue because servers in the basement just aren’t going to cut it for long.

          Users might not like ads, but until they are willing to pay for subscriptions, that’s what they’re stuck with.

          I wonder what percentage of Lemmy. World users have actually donated. Hopefully it’s sustainable enough that they can do more than pay for servers, but also hire some admins.

          • dog@yiffit.netEnglish
            6·
            1 年前

            true, true, and true. i didn’t even think about admins. just as important D:

        • EpsilonRose@kbin.social
          7·
          1 年前

          The technical aspects, like storage and bandwidth aren’t the only issues (though they are pretty major hurdles). The, arguably, bigger problem is the network effect. If you have the best UX possible and no content creators (that people care about), you won’t get users and without users you won’t get content creators that people care about.

          • dog@yiffit.netEnglish
            2·
            1 年前

            oh, of course, you’re absolutely right. it may take another rancid campaign from youtube parallel to reddit’s shenanigans that fill in the ux piece of it. or, who knows, maybe it would grow organically as people start to see their favorite sites and resources always come with a peephole and a coin slot 🙃

          • TheAngryBad@kbin.social
            2·
            1 年前

            If you have the best UX possible and no content creators (that people care about), you won’t get users and without users you won’t get content creators that people care about.

            This. I have a small yt channel, my videos regularly get 10k+ views there. In the early days, I also uploaded to a couple of other sites (dailymotion was one, can’t remember the other). Where I was getting hundreds if not thousands of views on yt, I was getting maybe half a dozen on the other sites. My most popular video got nearly 100k views on yt, and last I looked on dailymotion it had something like 8 views. Needless to say, I didn’t bother uploading to other sites after that and just stayed on yt.

            That said, I’m willing to start uploading to peertube once I’ve had a chance to look into it.

        • franzfurdinand@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 年前

          One thing I’m curious about… Are you aware of a way to grab an entire channel worth of videos at once? I have a few educational channels I’d like to have mirrored locally just for my own consumption.

              • Kresten@feddit.dkEnglish
                1·
                1 年前

                No worries, just wanted to spread the word of it being back. Only realized it myself recently

          • dog@yiffit.netEnglish
            3·
            1 年前

            i think kresten has the right idea, i’ve heard good things about youtube-dl

    • Eggyhead@kbin.social
      6·
      1 年前

      We are the commodity for sale to advertisers. We make the content we consume, YouTube makes sure it keeps going, but for the most part they are just perpetuating viewing space for ads.

      • dog@yiffit.netEnglish
        4·
        1 年前

        this, of course, is not inherently bad. but when does it end? when you literally strip away all but 1 cubic centimeter of joy and ease of use of your product just to squeeze out two monies?

  • Aer@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    261·
    1 年前

    They really want to tv-ify web content huh? People left TV because they were sick of ads.

    I only have YouTube premium because I do not want a TV license and one is definitely cheaper than the other but the fuck man.

    • twack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 年前

      Cable TV did not originally have ads. That was part of the reason that people started paying for it.

      What you are seeing is the natural cycle of content and greed.

    • wildeaboutoskar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 年前

      Not just them either. Netflix has an ad based tier now and I wouldn’t be surprised if other platforms have them too as they realise there’s a limit to how much they can realistically charge people. It seems like we’ve circled back to the start of cable

      • hodgepodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 年前

        Yeah i am totally fine with being showed ads or paying for an ad free option. I got YouTube red when it came out and never looked back. Plus they gave us Cobra Kai, which was amazing. I do wish they also included a “we won’t sell your data” option in that premium though

  • Daniel Retana@mastodon.ie
    18·
    1 年前

    @STRIKINGdebate2 Firefox + uBlock Origin is love!!!
    Firefox + uBlock Origin is life!!!

    Also on Android. It allows me to have extensions.
    I don’t need any other app besides Firefox, Revanced, and my bank’s app on my phone.

  • jennwiththesea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 年前

    I finally got a Nebula subscription. A lot of my YouTube favorites are on there, and I’ve found a couple new ones to follow. I still wind up on YT for a few folks, but that number is dropping.

      • wabafee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 年前

        Aside from Peertube one I could think of is vimeo, dailymotion, dtube and twitch, then again in terms of content and servers available around the world nothing matching youtube, except maybe tiktok and twitch. There is pornhub which I think could be the best competitor for youtube barely any restrictions you can talk shit in fact some actually upload gaming videos and some random stuff aside from porn ofcourse they have a lot of servers around the world. The videos dont buffer that much. Who ever owns pornhub if they decide to have sfw alternative to it they could be best alternative to youtube.

        Edit: I think they dont have sfw because its hard to make money out of it similar to youtube which is operating at a loss. The only reason google still keeps youtube running is because its a white elephant.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        5·
        1 年前

        Right now, there’s no viable alternative anywhere near YouTube’s size. Hosting that much video content is expensive and very few companies have sufficient money and servers to support it.