I have a private piped instance running in oracle cloud free, works nicely for me.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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didn't know about piped, thanks for the recommendation!
anything to know about before setting it up?
like some pitfalls or hiccups?
Did not notice yet because use Piped XD
I guess this is the kick in the pants to go over to odysee or somewhere else, huh
looking forward to the day Oddysee isn't mainly alt right weirdness (I'm not a fan) and tinfoil hat level privacy nerds (I am a fan, but I have other interests too...)
I tend to agree. Something federated like PeerTube seems ideal for curating what kinds of content you want, but the data requirements for that are going to be much higher than mostly text and image-based things like lemmy or mastodon
This is old news from a month ago.
And here's my hot take on YT ads: They need to make money somehow, but unfortunately they are subject to "ad creep," where they slowly increase the intensity of the ads. I've gotten 15+20s unskippable ads before.
But what really grinds my gears are how the ads almost seem designed to annoy you. If you commonly skip ads, that's when you get unskippable ads all the time. And if you try to listen to YT in the shower expect the ads to come and go like radio, you come out listening to some skippable 30 minute long ad.
And I hate how the ads on mobile decide to cover the comment section. That's ridiculous, like imagine if you're reading a newspaper and when you get to an ad the ad suddenly expands to fill the entire page.
And the forced ads on unmonetized channels is plain cruel.
So, as much as I want to support creators (and I do leave AdBlock off on YT most of the time), I'll come out against YT over this decision. My usage of it will drop, but only minorly.
I'm in the camp that says you should really pay for premium. It's so worth the money. For every premium user that watches a video the creator gets a pretty good cut. Something like 55%. Blocking ads doesn't really hurt the creator too much. Your mainly just sticking it to Google. But if your someone who watches alot of YouTube consider premium, to help your favorite creators more. Especially you get Music included.
YouTube feels unusable without an ad-blocker. I've gotten like 30min crazy conspiracy videos as an ad that shit is bonkers.
FreeTube, Invidious, or Rumble.
I imagine folks wouldn't have a problem with this if the ads weren't already so aggressive. Numerous ads before and during the content break it up too much. And if the content is extremely short form, it completely ruins the experience.
The number of ads and their length should be proportional to the length of the video. And any creator doing built-in ads should also not be able to inject a bunch of other ads. Burying content is an easy way to get avoided.
Print media had limits for advertisements, heck, in magazines they were premium real estate for the finest graphic designers to put together incredible imagery to get your attention. This level of care (not necessarily images or what have you) has yet to translate to the web.
"Youtube considering incentivizing piracy"
If I have to start paying to watch videos, I’ll probably just jump over to Nebula or something.