I’ll be interested to see the ways ad blockers and similar tech try to get around this. I’ll also have to think harder about archiving videos I like, instead of just assuming I have access to them, I do this with most things, but videos are not one of them.
Yeah and who would want to archive videos? They take up so much space. Especially if you’re wanting to archive stuff like stream vods, etc. I just hope Piped and Newpipe can stay under Goolag’s radar, but I’m sure by now they’re well aware of them. They’re definitely aware of Invidious after they sent that legal threat to them.
I’m sure more frontends will come out to get around the garbage, it’s just a matter of when. The cat and mouse game continues. Might need to start archiving videos in the meantime though.
I know it’s not ideal and space is certainly an issue, but yt-dlp can download playlists… so effectively what you can do to make it easier is to just dump everything you want to keep in a playlist, and you can even automate it so yt-dlp runs every 6 hours or whatever to get anything you’ve added to your list. At least for stuff you deem important, it’s at least something.
I’m actually surprised there isn’t an extension to “cache” any videos watched… stage6 (rip) used to just inherently save everything you watched. It’s been over 15 years and I still miss that damn site ;_; we’ve certainly gone in the very wrong direction since then
Meanwhile I’m about to buy ~50tb of local storage because YouTube is finally pulling the plug on the grandfathered gsuite “as much storage as you need” plan and I’ve got 30tb of shit to move, so I certainly feel your pain. At least my old mining rig motherboards will finally have something to do again… 16 1x pcie slots can support 64 harddrives, so I should be good for a bit.
I’ll be interested to see the ways ad blockers and similar tech try to get around this. I’ll also have to think harder about archiving videos I like, instead of just assuming I have access to them, I do this with most things, but videos are not one of them.
Yeah and who would want to archive videos? They take up so much space. Especially if you’re wanting to archive stuff like stream vods, etc. I just hope Piped and Newpipe can stay under Goolag’s radar, but I’m sure by now they’re well aware of them. They’re definitely aware of Invidious after they sent that legal threat to them.
I’m sure more frontends will come out to get around the garbage, it’s just a matter of when. The cat and mouse game continues. Might need to start archiving videos in the meantime though.
I know it’s not ideal and space is certainly an issue, but yt-dlp can download playlists… so effectively what you can do to make it easier is to just dump everything you want to keep in a playlist, and you can even automate it so yt-dlp runs every 6 hours or whatever to get anything you’ve added to your list. At least for stuff you deem important, it’s at least something.
I’m actually surprised there isn’t an extension to “cache” any videos watched… stage6 (rip) used to just inherently save everything you watched. It’s been over 15 years and I still miss that damn site ;_; we’ve certainly gone in the very wrong direction since then
Meanwhile I’m about to buy ~50tb of local storage because YouTube is finally pulling the plug on the grandfathered gsuite “as much storage as you need” plan and I’ve got 30tb of shit to move, so I certainly feel your pain. At least my old mining rig motherboards will finally have something to do again… 16 1x pcie slots can support 64 harddrives, so I should be good for a bit.
I’ve always been an agressive archiver. Well guess it’s time to archive all my playlists again