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Youtube ads finally got me

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Looks like its over for me and youtube. Being told I cant watch because of an ad blocker.

Where is everyone moving to and using instead of youtube? I will just move to the same place.

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ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.oneOP
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Just googled this also but similar issue to freetube? Just an app to the same service if I understand correctly?

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algorithmae@lemmy.one
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If the people you watch only upload to YouTube, how would they be available on other services?

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ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.oneOP
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Yes obviously there is a problem here exactly like the reddit to lemmy problem. Just another obstacle but thats okay. Probably it is solvable.

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baatliwala@lemmy.world
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For video hosting? Good luck, that’s almost certainly never going to happen. There is not one single competitor to Youtube even from corporations, there is no way any decentralised solution will work long term, especially not if you are expecting features like 4k or 60fps+ content.

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DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
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Not quite - NewPipe is a YouTube client as well. It’s just that it also support PeerTube (a decentralised video hosting solution).

For YouTube, NewPipe is an anonymous account-free, ad-blocking client. You can import your current YouTube subscriptions using a Google Takeout dump (the NewPipe app gives you instructions) and you can add more channel subs directly in the app.

The benefits are no YouTube ads, and it’s privacy-friendly but with channel subs - you’re escaping the algorithm. To get the benefit of subs on YouTube directly, you need to login, which means they’re mining your video watching data and using it to target you (and possibly sell that data to others).

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FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
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For YouTube, NewPipe is an anonymous…

Not quite. From LibreTube’s GitHub page on their differences:

With NewPipe, the extraction is done locally on your phone, and all the requests sent towards YouTube/Google are done directly from the network you’re connected to, which doesn’t use a middleman server in between. Therefore, Google can still access information such as the user’s IP address. Aside from that, subscriptions can only be stored locally.

LibreTube takes this one step further and proxies all requests via Piped (which uses the NewPipeExtractor). This prevents Google servers from accessing your IP address or any other personal data.

Either way, I use a VPN for both.

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DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
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You’re right - NewPipe isn’t totally anonymous.

The distinction I was trying to make was that you didn’t have to use a Google/YouTube account. I should’ve made that clearer.

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