Hello there!

Many of you consider LBRY and Odysee as a good alternative to YouTube, because it does not track you, and does not do evil things.

Let me clear up your heads.

LBRY and Odysee still tracks you. It does still use an algorithm, that recommends you content. To be honest, it isn’t really different from YouTube. You need a phone number to verify, or other personal information. They use third-party components, to provide their services like Google AdSense. If it grows more, then we will get to the same point, what we have now with YouTube. (If they don’t make a change.)

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      • @AgreeableLandscape
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        3 years ago

        Just wish that it wasn’t infested with goddamn neo-nazis. At least @nutomic@lemmy.ml’s instance seems to be doing a good job of not showing me any of that though.

        • Its unfortunate too because instances like tilvids.com don’t show their videos in recommendations because the creators don’t want their videos next to neonazi content. It’s pushing good content away.

    • @dragestil
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      113 years ago

      Peertube is not librejs compliant though

      • Ephera
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        183 years ago

        Possibly sacrilegious question, but what difference does it make here? The JavaScript that’s delivered to users is essentially a binary, and the source code to compile that binary is available. That’s how it’s done in other software, too.

        And with PeerTube being under the AGPLv3, this also holds even when someone modifies the version of PeerTube that they host, as they have to make those changes available.

      • @avalos
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          • @AgreeableLandscape
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            53 years ago

            Those script lines are all auto-generated by the Webpack build. As I’ve been saying, we almost certainly need a Webpack plugin to handle this cleanly. Please supply a plugin if you want this fixed. None of this is strange, Peertube is using one of the most common JS build systems in the world and you’ll need to support Webpack if you expect apps to adopt LibreJS’s requirements.

            This is probably why.

      • @blank_sl8
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        33 years ago

        This is hardly a breaking issue, since all the javascript is in fact free and open source, you just need to put an exception in your browser settings.

        • @AgreeableLandscape
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          23 years ago

          To be fair, the source repository is open source, but you have no idea what kind of modifications the server admin made to the frontend you’re getting. Even though it’s AGPL and they’re supposed to open source their changes, nothing’s actually preventing them from just not doing that.

          My advice for anyone worried about this is to only access Peertube from an open source client installed on your computer, preferably built from source yourself, since then you can be almost 100% sure that the code is actually open source.

    • @FCKDRM1111
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      23 years ago

      Absolutely agreed. Give it time, hopefully others will see this too

  • Werwolf
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    403 years ago

    Peertube is the way to go

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  • @lps
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    93 years ago

    I agree, what a lot of bullshit, and you know what makes it bad? It has a business model, that’s the whole focus. It’s inevitable that it turns evil, how can it not. Investors, they use venture capital, want their pound of flesh. Sooner or later they’ll come for it. Peertube is free in every sense, it’s about video distribution, not commerce. I envision peertube becoming for video what WordPress is to websites.

  • @kanzalibrary@lemmy.world
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    48 months ago

    Pure seeking profit in short term rather than long term with less profit but more engagement in community. Very dangerous company for open source alternatives (honeytrap)…

  • Sandro Linux
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    33 years ago

    Use the desktop app it is does not track you unless you allow it to, is open source and you can do what you want with it

  • @Evelyn
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    13 years ago

    It’s recommended to instead use LBRY with only the blockchain clients. All of these problems apply when you use LBRY inc. services and Odysee.com / lbry.tv websites. they don’t use p2p, they’re using a centralized server. Registering with an email address also means you’ll be using their service. The default way to make an account/channel is by using the blockchain by using LBC, not through a free (as in free of charge) centralized service.