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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Ads aside, what's been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the "1080p Enhanced Bitrate"; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don't have Premium, but I'm fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would've been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

From everything I've read, it seems they didn't actually reduce quality and it's just placebo from the introduction of the premium bitrate option.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Could be, I don't know. I doubt that video creators would go through all of these old videos just to update them to a slightly higher bitrate; the other possibility is that YouTube kept the original uploads or higher bitrate variants without previously showing them (and only showed them now), but that seems like a huge waste of storage, so it seems unlikely to me. Again, we're talking about old uploads (2-3 or up to 10 years ago), not new ones.

The one thing I've seen that makes sense is updating old videos that were previously available at up to 480p and bringing them up to 720p or 1080p (with the idea of keeping the original published video with the views, comments and so on instead of uploading a new one).

[–] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago

yes video quality has dropped, video suggestion algorithms have become a weird uroboric/echo chamber even if you have dozens of subscriptions, and the YouTube shorts reel refuses to be trained (no matter what I do, if I dislike every video I don't want to see and like all the ones I do want to see and log off if it suggests too many bad videos in a row, it still feeds me an endless loop of unwanted brain rot after 5 or 6 scrolls). I hate YouTube.

At the same time, they've found a good way around the ad block situation which is to promote ads as thumbnails on your "for you" video main page. I don't know why they didn't just do that in the first place, because honestly I don't mind that. It's when they constantly interrupt my videos ever freaking minute and a half that I start to get pissed.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm guessing they're going to use the classic method of increasing the subscription price and then later creating a new lite subscription that does have some ads.

[–] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago

these subscription models don't work. What these morons don't count on is that everyone actually hates the technology deep down. We don't want it! But it gives us a dopamine hit. And when they stack on subscription prices and lock up content and shove ads down our throat... well, the dopamine stops hitting and just get pissed. So we leave.

[–] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

I was so happy to find this post, and was saddened again to see that I didn't have this button available when I needed it hahahaha

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 83 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Friends don't let friends deal with YouTube's website.
NewPipe
FreeTube

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Don't forget Smarttube

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We're friends?

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

we’re all friends here

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Also relevant:

  • alternate frontends (e.g. Invidious and Piped)
  • yt-dlp🔗 (youtube downloader, can also be used to stream videos into players like mpv)
[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something

[–] sag@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Self-Hosting is the only option right now.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago

FreeTube breaks regularly and doesn't have support for higher resolutions.

[–] N00b22@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

PipePipe in case NewPipe can't load the video because it requires sign in

[–] Chev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

There is no option to sign in on NewPipe. NewPipe works perfectly for me for years now. I even use the Sponsorblock Fork to skip the sponsored segments from the Video Creators

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Well, down the list we go...

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 167 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I always somehow miss when it stops working and by the time I go to YouTube again it's already working again.

Blessings to Gorhill

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago

don't forget the list maintainers

[–] teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 22 hours ago

I've never even seen that before with unlock on firefox

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.

[–] trouble@lemm.ee 0 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

So does brave

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

But Brave is malware, so not a great trade-off

[–] trouble@lemm.ee 4 points 13 hours ago

Proof..?

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but Brave has creepy crypto stuff baked in. Safari doesn’t have a bunch of junk that needs to be disabled.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

But so does Librewolf

[–] jkozaka@lemm.ee 65 points 1 day ago

It was fixed in mere minutes

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Can anyone tell me why my "purge cache" button is missing? I thought i was crazy

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

Now It's gone

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