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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ YouTube used to be the place for retards who couldn't keep attention long enough
Just one of countless damages YouTube has done to society is establishing videos as standard medium of any form of communication and information storage -- back in the day Internet was mostly text-based, sometimes there was an image or video of course, but only when needed. Since YouTube's rise to fame a lot of information has just moved to videos, even that which suffer by this format, e.g. books, announcements, notes, presentations, tutorials, pure audio and so on. All of this [bloat](bloat.md) of course makes the information hard to index and search, store, process, view on weak devices, it wastes enormous amounts of bandwidth, computing power and so forth. Thanks YouTube.
{ https://www.vidlii.com seems alright though, at least as a curiosity. Anyway if you need to watch YouTube, do not use their website, it's shitty as hell and you will die of ad cancer, rather use something like invidious or youtube-dl. Here is an **awesome hack I discovered to search only old videos on youtube**! The new shit is just unwatchable, there's clickbait, sponsors, propaganda, SJW shit everywhere, thankfully you can just exclude any year from the search with with "-year" (at least for now), for example: https://yewtu.be/search?q=free+software+-2023+-2022+-2021+-2020+-2019+-2018+-2017+-2016+-2015+-2014+-2013+-2012+-2011+-2010+-2009&page=1&date=none&type=video&duration=none&sort=relevance. UPDATE: actually you can even just use `before:YEAR` in the search, TIL. Enjoy. ~drummyfish }
{ https://www.vidlii.com seems alright though, at least as a curiosity. Anyway if you need to watch YouTube, do not use their website, it's shitty as hell and you will die of ad cancer, rather use something like invidious or youtube-dl. Here is an awesome hack I discovered to search only old videos on youtube! The new shit is just unwatchable, there's clickbait, sponsors, propaganda, SJW shit everywhere, thankfully you can just exclude any year from the search with with "-year" (at least for now), for example: https://yewtu.be/search?q=free+software+-2023+-2022+-2021+-2020+-2019+-2018+-2017+-2016+-2015+-2014+-2013+-2012+-2011+-2010+-2009&page=1&date=none&type=video&duration=none&sort=relevance. UPDATE: actually you can even just use `before:YEAR` in the search, TIL. Enjoy. UPDATE 2024: Invidious no longer works, they keep creating new frontends and hacks every day, currently the Freetube program is quite nice, I can't keep up with it though, I'll stop updating this shit, just search it yourself. ~drummyfish }
**What are the alternatives to YouTube?** We'll only leave a brief paragraph here for wannabe YouTube alternatives come and go faster than a [zoomer](zoomer.md) changes genders. Best alternative to watching videos is reading [books](books.md) or watching clouds in the sky, but we'll stick to "watching videos on the Internet" here. Also bear in mind that if you have to watch YouTube, use alternative YouTube [frontends](frontend.md), which are normally [FOSS](foss.md) -- e.g. Invidious, piped, HookTube or FreeTube -- these let you access YouTube's videos via less [bloated](bloat.md) and more "privacy-friendly" interface, also filtering out ads and so on, more hardcore people use [CLI](cli.md) tools such as [youtube-dl](youtube_dl.md) to directy download the videos and watch them in native players. Likely the most notable [FOSS](foss.md) alternative to YouTube is **[PeerTube](peertube.md)**, a [federated](federation.md) [P2P](p2p.md) video platform, however for intended use it requires [JavaScript](javascript.md) (there is a way to download videos without JS but it's discouraged) and there are other issues that make it unusable ([SJW](sjw.md) censorship, videos load extremely slowly, ...). If you use PeerTube, don't use the lesbian instances, look up the uncensored ones. Mainstream proprietary alternative to YouTube is Vimeo, Bitchute is the "rightist" YouTube alternative (quite shitty TBH). [Internet Archive](internet_archive.md) has many video, especially old ones -- this is quite nice alternative. Vidlii is proprietary but oldschool site that tries to replicate old YouTube for the nostalgia, it has its own videos and small, dedicated community and very low censorship, it is pretty nice, with 360p videos and all; a site very similar to Vidlii it Bitview.