Youtube is relentlessly attacking all proxies, from yt-dlp to invidious to materialious
Google/Chrome/Chromium is attacking adblocking infrastructure via base software design
This thread is for tracking this development and the hacked solutions produced by the resistance
It's ogre for google:
>I recently attended a funeral. It was called the Google Web Creator Conversation Event and took place on October 29, 2024, at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/tech/google-creators-event.htmlFucking funny article. It's not exactly about this topic, but no way am I making yet anther mufuggen google thread. We have enough of them in the catalog already.
>>26972I'm not confident that someone (read: a company) else can pull this off. And if they could, you'd have the same problems you have with Youtube right now.
Might sound like a pipe dream, but our only hope of pulling this off properly, like many other things, is decentralizing. A P2P video website. These exist and I wandered a bit in some of them. As you might expect, they're a bit barren in terms of content, but they *worked*.
>>26740nadeko.net is still alive and kicking, it's basically carrying alternative front-ends on its back now. Bless its admin (plz don't overload their server with constant requests).
>>26972>can any website replicate large scale free video hosting? whats the alternative?The only ones that have ever gotten close are PeerTube, Odysee, BitChute and Vimeo, everything else is just pathetic. My bets are on PeerTube and Odysee but even they can't keep up simply because of YouTube's immense backlog.
>>26820RSS feeds are missing info like video length time. Invidious also has a public API that shits out much more extensive data about channels/videos/etc in JSON format.
https://docs.invidious.io/api/I use the API to "subscribe" not just to channels but also to searches.
>>28221uh, mate, Invidious is fucked
https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious/wiki/Important-informationalso where are the new invidious instances popping up, lol? there are only 3 instances now (and there used to be at least a dozen of them)
>>28246>it doesn't work everytime I use itJust go through all the backends until you find the one that works. Why else does it have several backend servers? If that doesn't help, repeat a few times.
The only problem Invidious has (and always had) is inability to view age-restricted content but you need a YouTube account for that anyway.
>>28338There was a newpipe update this week that fixed it for me.
I can use it along with mullvad normally, and you can often use TOR here even if some jannoids hate it.
>>28342That's because debate addiction is not a real thing.
It's a term coined by some person who got upset that their ideas got pointed out as flawed while conversing with people online, and it resonated with other like-minded individuals of little mental rigor yet also a big ego in spite of this.
>>28346>estrogenizeThe only people who care about this have a severe case of
mental disability fragile masculinity.
>>26976>FreeTubeIt would require some kind of legal framework so that communities that exist on this platform aren't held responsible of any content published outside of their own group.
>>27428Bitchute likes to deplatform content too. This won't be enough.
>>28216>Forty years later, boomer tricks make a comeback.What is the point of all this modernity if we have to regress to the stone age to enjoy the diet version of internet? It's so contradictory.
The other issue with invidious is that you spam requests on different instances and backends to get some videos through and it gets very tedious, it's sometimes too long.
Back to dl them manually with other tools.
>>28347The clop faggotry kinda gave it away.
>>29059A webview approach, interesting. If only my phone didn't break I would try it out.
How does it compare to pipepipe?
>>26740I believe it would be more worthwhile to strip Google's youtube of their videos and store them in a personal database after converting the videos into a LOSSLESS file format.
You could probably call multiple different youtube video downloaders remotely through multiple proxies, then download the videos, then convert with ffmpeg to a lossless format, call all those different programs together with a .bat file, you could probably access those youtube video downloaders with python.
The only problem now would be storing those videos in multiple databases, and in multiple computers, which would require very decent compression, rar files comes to mind, but they aren't powerful enough, hence you will probably need many many server/computers upwards of a thousand.
>>29256Admittedly, it is not a very feasible strategy.
A better strategy would be having a list of all youtuber channel links in text, then visiting those channels with a crawler to determine new videos.
After stripping only the new ones, then potentially watching those ones, but furthermore using other video websites and doing the same for a customized feed.
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