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net00 ,

I dusted off an old laptop, put debian on it, put an SSD and now I have my own invidious instance, among other services...

No ads, no throttling, no bullshit. Google is very welcome to suck it. I'd gladly stop using youtube, but there's no competition.

itsJoelle ,

I know it's a pain, but what's to stop us from using download-clis? In theory I could "collect" the urls that are recommended to me from my home page, call the clis, click all the videos to update my recommendations then close the browser.

amir_s89 ,
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The no competition in the market, is the issue. Hope the situation improves in near future. With it innovations will gradually increase & the demand within the markets will point the directions.

0xD ,

If everyone keeps expecting everything for free there will never be competition :)

JonEFive ,

Let's not pretend like Google isn't earning any money

eskimofry ,

Let me convince you otherwise:

  1. Who set that expectation in the first place? Don't all cut-throat corps undercut the previous established companies and gained a lot of market share by being "loss leaders"?
  2. Do you think YouTube would dare to go completely Pay only?
  3. Lack of competition is not an excuse to double dip on both customer data and advertisements.
  4. People who say that we need to pay for server costs should consider that streaming services are now asking for money but also introducing adverts. The money is too lucrative for them to leave on the table.
  5. Everybody is happy to pay when there's 1 service or 2 services that give them everything for a nominal fee. Cases in point: Netflix, Steam.
  6. A lot of people pay for twitch because it's the only platform they care about. Paying for A platform doesn't mean we will pay for ALL platforms.
fosforus ,

Or, there is plenty of competition, but since users are the product, not the customer, the competition isn't what people think it is or should be.

5redie8 ,

Thank you for reminding me to get myself an invidious instance set up. It isn't a huge pain or anything, right?

net00 ,

Not really, they have a docker compose file ready to go, and it works without issue.

stackPeek ,
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I wish I could do the same thing with my 2008 VAIO laptop :/

soggy_kitty ,

There is competition when it comes to technology stack. People just don't want to use alternatives because the amount of content/users is less on others.

Be the pioneer and help others move across.

keyez ,

Care to share any of the recommendations? I don't use YouTube often but would be happy to visit and use an alternative

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