That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.

  • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    4 months ago

    I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google’s desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to “sign in to confirm you are not a robot”. I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      39·
      4 months ago

      I use SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone. Except for links from Lemmy.

      If this bullshit is/becomes a thing for every YouTube video, I’m gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy 🤬

      Agreed on Peertube btw.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          91·
          4 months ago

          I finally managed to do that too, so there’s that 🖕 to Google. And then the specific video hit me with the dreaded “not available in your country” bullshit 🤦

      • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?

        • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
          12·
          4 months ago

          You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default “YouTube” app, all links will be open in that

        • 🅿🅸🆇🅴🅻@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          4 months ago

          UntrackMe, doesn’t open an app, but redirects to a chosen Invidious instance. I use farside.link/invidious which chooses a random instance closer to you.

        • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          4 months ago

          There is a similar thing already written, minus the automatic part. You set it as your default browser and lets you do all sorts of things to the link before opening it in a browser. It lets you choose which app to use the link in afterwards. You can unshort urls, it checks for malware or redirects… You get the picture. Not sure if this helps with what you are after:

          https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

        • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Not necessary, apps can register to open links from specific domains.

          The only caveat is that if they don’t also own the domain - like Google owns both youtube.com and the YouTube Android app - you have to manually go to the settings for the app in System Settings and enable them, under ‘Open by default’.

      • tacofox@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago
        • 1000 for SmartTube!! I finally side-loaded uYou for my iphone and last time I used my android tablet I was able to update reVanced but thats been forever ago.
    • Gigasser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing instances. Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and some Peertube instance.

      Edit: replaced a word with “instance” and added word “instance”

      • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        4 months ago

        Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.

        By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.

          By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income

          Plus, those other platforms don’t have an audience.

          Even Odysee, which has been around for several years, I only get 10s of views compared to the 3000-5000 that I get on youtube.