There is a Youtube blackout going on tomorrow, 13th of august onward due to the introduction of an AI that detects your age based on what you watch, and being forced to give Youtube personal identification to remedy this. In this thread you can suggest Youtube alternatives or alt clients to Youtube!
for example we mostly use something called piped (open source and self hosted) to watch Youtube
you can also suggest other platforms like Youtube! like Peertube, federated/decentralized Youtube-like (i have yet to use Peertube myself).
Freetube is a Youtube player that avoids like 80% of the things that makes YT suck now, idfk how they will do for the face id thing but i have been using it for a while and has been working wonders, its only for computer tho and i had some problems with subscriptions and video quality
https://freetubeapp.io/
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I've tried glomble.com a few times, but every time it just has massive loading issues. Is this the same for anyone else trying out this site? I have bad wifi, so that might be why I have to wait for videos to load....
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i used to use invidious a lot, but sort of fell off of it
unfortunately it would seem that the majority of the servers have vanished... but a few still seem to exist! there's one hosted in Germany called yewtu.be i think?
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I don't wanna rain on yalls parade but a nebulous boycott without any real organization basically never works, also boycotting youtube like this hurts creators more than it does youtube because youtube is already run at a loss.
this is organized, hell a few creators i watch are doing the same boycott
personally when the rest of the internet starts trying to do this the only social media I'll use is niche shit like these forums and tumblr lol
@wolfkitty42 dw its not an internet issue from your end, its slow cause of the huge influx of new users since the devs friend uploaded a yt video about the platform, and its all supported by like one computer (or it was last time i found out) so the machine its struggling to keep up
I think they were planning to get others help to keep up the servers? maybe in the future it wont be as slow as it is rn
forgive me for my ignorance but isn’t using a YouTube watcher still using YouTube? like the video is still being called and watched from YouTube. stuff like peertube and it’s ilk are fully separate things that people upload to so YouTube is not involved in the slightest
i am not completely sure if it considers you when using a alt client, but one thing is that youtube/google will not get ad money, nor be able to gather more data (more then google probably already has) using it, and with piped there is no algorithm either.
pardon my stupidity but wouldn't exclusively watching with an adblocker have the same effect?
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not completely sure actually, i dont have much knowledge on this type of stuff.
but also due to the ai thing being added (might be added) tomorrow, using piped\alt client would be better due to the ai tryna guess your age
@Penny! Wellll we dont know yet, with all the adblock thing they have done idk if having a adblock would bypass the face id; if you ask my opinion just use an alt client like freetube because it would say fine even with it being slightly annoying to setup
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if youre looking to completely forgo youtube as a whole vimeos got some stuff(its what i used almost exclusively in middle school LOL) and the internet archive also has uploads of tons of videos too. i stopped using youtube the day i found out they were planning to implement it and honestly? i might never use it again even if they do decide to roll back:/
Maybe if you were to boycott buying YouTube Premium or something but I don't really think a handful or even a couple hundred or thousand people not watching anything on YouTube would do literally anything to affect them (I can't imagine the scale is that wide, I'm ready to accept I am wrong since this is probably being organized on a site I just don't use. But this is the first time I'm hearing of it)
the biggest videos on that platform have billions of views, the biggest channels hundreds of millions of subscribers, this would have to be an absolutely huge movement
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i wasnt aware the ID requirement is going into effect tomorrow, real sad to learn this but I was always intending to stop using youtube if they decided to do this. thanks for providing a couple alternatives, really appreciate it. still gonna be a huge gap in my internet habits but its one that i simply must take the hit on.
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anyone has any links on how to set up any of these youtube clients on mobile?
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