Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

  • reddithalation@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    newpipe is just a client for accessing youtubes servers, yes, so if youtube went away we would need to use vimeo or something else (maybe peertube, open source yt alternative?)

      • NAXLAB@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        1 year ago

        Vimeo is a private operation just like YouTube.

        Peertube is a “federated” system where videos are hosted among the computers of the people who upload videos.

        • down daemon@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          There really needs to be a way to seed peertube videos without leaving the window open. A firefox extension even. They have extensions that do bittorrent, it shouldn’t be hard. Videos could end with a “click here to seed this video” message

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I was really surprised when I started looking into it that there’s no “remote bandwidth runners” option. Although I think Peertube’s devs may be just starting to think about that kind of thing since they just added support for remote transcode runners