this is valuable thank you. my questions were going to be about limiting identifying info using yt-dlp…
@dalto eliminated this, mostly he believes, by using tor with freetube. you are using mullvad vpn with designated socket/port and that probably helps too.
I’m a passive and inconsequential internet presence (how-to videos on fixing my jeep or linux issues or maybe finding an album I have coveted for a long time etc) but paranoid enough to believe The Machine does not distinguish good guys from bad guys. I have no faith in The Machine the last 20 years..
Meaning all I desire out of a tool like yt-dlp or freetube is some distance from the nauseating machine.
If my desired “some distance” only means VPN or TOR I use neither. My question in my hypothetical un-made forum post is…what can these apps (yt-dlp and freetube and the one’s @Bink mentioned) do for me?
I do something similar to this too. Though I pipe the output from yt-dlp directly to mpv. Sometimes I download but only those videos I want to keep.
However when I’m lazy, I use my Librewolf YT profile. I have imported my subscriptions into Feedbro. I can “star” single videos in Feedbro to watch later or save but I haven’t found (read looked into) a way to create playlists. With uBlock and Sposorblock, this works rather fine. After all FreeTube is an Electron based app so basically Chromium. A quite specialized one. But I lack enough technical knowledge about all its under-the-hood workings.
Right, I missed the period after freetube, you missed the capital Y in you to start a new sentence. So you “misspelled”, I “misread”, or something of the sort. Good to clear that up!
I’m not too proud to admit I may mangle a sentence sometimes. But in my writing above it’s clear I distinguished two different things as two different things. Not as same thing.
No problem my dear fellow forum member! I missed the punctuation as well. There are thousand and one ways to misinterpret the intended message. Be it in spoken or written form.
Tor proxy also works with yt-dlp but it can flag you as a bot (or randomly selects a country where the video is unavailable) and won’t download anything, then you would need to restart the tor.service, sometimes multiple times, until it works with a new ip and country.
This may be better suited for it’s own thread as I can see it possibly going off topic but I was reply here anyway.
I haven’t used Newpipe or Grayjay so I am unsure about these specifically.
For me Freetube and yt-dlp is just a better setup even for general youtube use outside of using proxies obscuring IP address in terms of “what they do for me” question unless I misunderstood. Just keep in mind I mostly never stream videos in Freetube, I mainly use it just to get the URL from the videos so my requirements for them may be different to others.
Freetube and YT-DLP means I can remove this traffic going through my browser, Youtube is the only service from Google I directly use so I prefer to isolate it. It also limits what they can interact with/easier to isolate, other than the IP address linking you with no proxy.
Feeetube customisation to remove interface clutter. Previously had around 4-5 browser extensions only used to make Youtube usable. And lots of extensions is an issue in itself, for performance, privacy, and security.
I prefer how playlists are done in freetube, faster to scroll through a large playlist without waiting for it to load and I know the names of any deleted videos to replace them.
Youtube is very resource heavy in a browser, it uses a lot of Javascript and constantly forwards trackers and other elements to each youtube page when they are left open, I have had enough videos open in tabs in the past where it would make the browser use many gigabytes of RAM after a while, many times surpassing 10GB. Downloading the video with YT-DLP means I can just have the videos open or at least stored on my drive somewhere without a whole web page attached doing constant connections being an inefficient media player.
On YT-DLP side I’ve always just preferred downloading the video and viewing it in MPV automatically rather than streaming video since it avoids potential buffering issues. And since streaming has to download the video on the PC to view it anyway I find it faster to download the whole video straight away.
Once I have the URL from freetube, the download script I use is tied to a hotkey meaning it only takes two key presses to download a video.
yt-dlp hasn’t had any issues for me the past few weeks, and since my yt-dlp is a clone of the git master repository I can update it whenever I want with the git pull command which is often faster than package repositories can update in the event it stops working.
I can actually understand especially the British members of the forum wanting to hide what they watch on youtube from their government I think they will understand what i mean by that. Let’s say what i have seen in terms of “the practice of free speech” seems rather bleak in England at the moment.
Quite OT, just “esoteric” communication training basics: The solution here is simple: Both communication parties musst be aware of the fact that the message is defined by the receiver.
Maybe someone is interested in this. I made a script for fish that uses fzf and yt-dlp for searching and opening videos in mpv. You can also toggle thumbnails inside fzf.
There are other scripts out there that do the same, but I think it’s neat you can have a YouTube viewer script like this with just three commands and some strings operations.
Usage:
ys "video search string"
yl #used to open pre defined channel list you can choose from
yc channel_name
If you had not ignored my post above yours, as a reply to your whining (your word not mine), you would have found a way which would be much less of a PITA.
This has concluded my replying to you in this thread.
I think they will understand what i mean by that. Let’s say what i have seen in terms of “the practice of free speech” seems rather bleak in England at the moment.
