• Danny M
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    8 months ago

    Then use alternative youtube clients, like piped or freetube.

    Or even better: spend money (if you can afford it) to host a peertube instance that automatically rips the videos off of youtube.

    That’s an even stronger message that you’d rather spend money than use their crappy free services.

    • 2xsaiko
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      88 months ago

      Or even better: spend money (if you can afford it) to host a peertube instance that automatically rips the videos off of youtube.

      Oh that’s amazing. I’m gonna see about doing that for channels I actively watch. Gives me an excuse to unfuck my NAS storage too since then it’ll be full faster.

      Do you know of any software that does that already (I assume PeerTube itself doesn’t)?

    • Frost-752
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      68 months ago

      Didnt know this could be done, looks like ive got something new to throw on the home server.

    • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      38 months ago

      Piped doesn’t work most of the time. In fact, I can’t remember a single Piped link actually loading the video. And I don’t have money to spend.

      • Danny M
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        8 months ago

        it’s not cheap, but it’s not prohibitively expensive either, unless you watch a prohibitive amount of youtube (i.e. you watch youtube 24/7)

        You can get a 10TB hard drive for slightly under 200 dollars today, then just throw it in an old computer (even if the parts are 10+ years old, it’s fine), install a linux distro and install peertube.