When it works I’ll use piped and shit, but half the time it doesn’t work lmao
It has never worked for me. On any platform. Not one time. I blocked that fucking bot months ago.
Because it’s reliant on special servers. Just use Freetube or Newpipe, both handle the video extraction locally.
Locally? How is that private???
Grayjay, Freetube and Newpipe work.
So just use Googles resources, build decentralized identities (@ all content creators!) and you are just fine for the dooms day when Youtube uses DRM or something
Hi, author of the Piped link bot here! I think this is meme great feedback to throw light on some issues on the experience with the bot. 😂 I’ll open an issue at https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot to track this later.
It is very annoying tbh. I dont want to always suck your resources, and Youtube just works with privacy clients currently. So when they dont work anymore, then this may be useful. But then Piped would probably be blocked too.
I appreciate the work but its quite annoying that every youtube link gets a piped link instead, even though I purposefully use youtube links as Grayjay, Newpipe, Pipepipe, Freetube etc. work just fine.
I find the bot very useful when I’m on a device without Newspipe or whatever like an IPhone. I know it’s piped bot, but could it also provide a invidious link as sometimes I run into a speed/bug problem with piped (probably because web view sucks, if I open a link in a proper browser the bugs are gone)
It’s THE kavin, great to see you on here! You’re the one that really rocks!
Thanks for your work on Piped. Youtube links here go straight to NewPipe so I’ve been able to avoid all of Google’s latest shenanigans courtesy of your team.
If you like free software & promoting free services (as in freedom) why is your source code on Microsoft GitHub’s proprietary social network / Git forge where accounts + ToS agreements are required to contribute & the platform has anti-features trying to force engagement on users? At a minimum, I would expect a mailing list to send patches or mirroring to a free (as in freedom) forge if not an all-out migration.
from experience, none of yall click on anything but the youtube link.
What experience?
Oh boy, can’t wait to see what someone commented on my post
Oh boy, can’t wait to see if the commenter upvoted my reply for the effort.
I don’t understand why anyone would use piped bot’s links at all.
I’m on the boat where I think it’s better to use an addon or something to rewrite the URLS in your browser automatically rather than relying on a bot to do it. Firefox has “Redirector” plugin which can rewrite all youtube links to whatever invidious/piped/etc. instance you want.
I know, and I use that. But on a IOS device I haven’t found a good way to do this
You can’t register urls with apps on IOS?
I think it’s for awareness. I’ll never forget Piped exists now.
You setup the automatic redirector… You’ll forget youtube exists, since it works browser-wide… and will interpret ALL youtube links.
If I could find a good Peertube instance, I’d take it upon myself to reupload everything I like there. I collect the 1080p(60h if available) clips locally for Kodi anyway…
This is a bit of me-thing, but yeah, I’m annoyed that YouTube is the way it is. It’s non-trivial to embed videos from there without violating the GDPR, so embedded videos are basically not a thing these days on general-purpose social media.
And personally, I also want to avoid the tracking from clicking through to a YouTube video and Google encourages long-ass videos, so I always hesitate before clicking through. Also, people without ad blockers go through a completely different circle of hell before a video starts.
Basically, I miss the days when memes could just be short videos. Where everyone could see on the embed that, oh, it’s a 30 second video, I can watch that. And then they’d just click play, without leaving the page.
I do understand that likely no one would care to provide the bandwidth for dumb meme videos on PeerTube either. But yeah, I just dream of that being a thing.
Odysee is better than a youtube frontend
One advantage of linking a YouTube video in an aggregator setting is if the video goes viral, everyone is spamming Google’s server for delivery instead of hammering smaller services. Video is pretty expensive, so for now I see no issue abusing YouTube (assuming everyone here is already ad-blocking & DNS sinking anyhow).
Here’s a little hack if you do have to use youtube:
Every ad you swipe down, close video, restart,… After a couple of times doing that, the abuse-filter kicks in and it will just show you the video. If you keep doing that a while, ads just stop for a while as it thinks it’s being abused. 😅
Probably will stop working one day too, but still works for me today.
