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I love piped bot (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] Knusper@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

This is a bit of me-thing, but yeah, I'm annoyed that YouTube is the way it is. It's non-trivial to embed videos from there without violating the GDPR, so embedded videos are basically not a thing these days on general-purpose social media.

And personally, I also want to avoid the tracking from clicking through to a YouTube video and Google encourages long-ass videos, so I always hesitate before clicking through. Also, people without ad blockers go through a completely different circle of hell before a video starts.

Basically, I miss the days when memes could just be short videos. Where everyone could see on the embed that, oh, it's a 30 second video, I can watch that. And then they'd just click play, without leaving the page.

I do understand that likely no one would care to provide the bandwidth for dumb meme videos on PeerTube either. But yeah, I just dream of that being a thing.

[–] bastian_5@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When it works I'll use piped and shit, but half the time it doesn't work lmao

[–] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It has never worked for me. On any platform. Not one time. I blocked that fucking bot months ago.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Because it's reliant on special servers. Just use Freetube or Newpipe, both handle the video extraction locally.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Grayjay, Freetube and Newpipe work.

So just use Googles resources, build decentralized identities (@ all content creators!) and you are just fine for the dooms day when Youtube uses DRM or something

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

from experience, none of yall click on anything but the youtube link.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

What experience?

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hi, author of the Piped link bot here! I think this is meme great feedback to throw light on some issues on the experience with the bot. 😂 I'll open an issue at https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot to track this later.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

It is very annoying tbh. I dont want to always suck your resources, and Youtube just works with privacy clients currently. So when they dont work anymore, then this may be useful. But then Piped would probably be blocked too.

I appreciate the work but its quite annoying that every youtube link gets a piped link instead, even though I purposefully use youtube links as Grayjay, Newpipe, Pipepipe, Freetube etc. work just fine.