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--- youtube [2021/02/15 07:50] – 'Tips to make Youtube less shit' rjt
+++ youtube [2024/12/30 17:26] (current) – Minitube rjt
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 ====== Youtube ======
 **Youtube** is a hellhole.
+===== Channels =====
+==== Music ====
+They don't usually last forever, but Youtube has some real treasure troves.
+  * [[ytc>TheXMusicArchive|Xearching For Sounds]]\\ Full albums of 80s [[J-pop]], [[city pop]], (mostly Japanese) [[jazz]], and generally stuff you don't see elsewhere. Real good. Has some looong mixes too I haven't gone through.
+  * [[ytc>vinylshellac|Vinyl and shellac by Starday]]\\ Mostly 20s--50s American music. I particularly like going through the singles.
+  * [[ytc>Flavichansamuraimusicinvestigator|Flavi-chan samurai music investigator]]\\ A bit like Xerching: lots of good album uploads, mostly Japanese.
+  * [[ytchan>UCxy4bwVLkbpG6n-nH_j63hA|Eric Rhodes II]]\\ Hasn't updated in months, but has full albums of 80s rarities from all over.\\ Sequel channel to [[ytchan>UCJ1yNrt4QXGfIshXhuATHfw|Eric Rhodes]], which's mostly bass covers, but has a few interesting album and bootleg uploads.
+  * [[ytchan>Musicforemptyrooms|Music for empty rooms]]\\ Single songs. Rare jazz, soul...
+  * [[ytchan>17_KAREN_LOVERs_28|Inheritance Bloodtype B Legends - Official -]]\\ J-pop stuff off the telly.
+  * [[ytchan>TerminalPassage|Terminal Passage]]\\ Mostly smooth jazzy funky  instrumental stuff?
+  * [[ytchan>yaoiboi92|yaoiboi92]]\\ Rare stuff, a lot's pretty mid, but worth a shot.
+  * [[ytchan>MrRevisorn|MrRevisorn]]\\ Good mixes/playlists.
+  * [[ytchan>nattligatoner2]]\\ Rare tracks, synthy.
+  * [[ytchan>DiscoSegreta]]\\ Euro Disco, mostly Italian.
 ===== Privacy =====
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   * Don't use an account. If you want to follow channels you can us [[rss]]. Google obscures the feed URL, but I use [[ffaddon>youtube-rss-finder]] to put a little button in the Address bar.
-    * Some people use this kinda thing to set it up so their computer downloads videos they want to watch.
+    * Some people use this kinda thing to set it up so their computer downloads videos they want to watch, so they can watch them offline.
   * Use a container in [[firefox]], and don't store cookies.
-  * Regularly wipe all the other stuff it stores on your computer with [[ffaddon>cookie-autodelete]], this way you'll avoid it's recommendations.
+  * Automatically wipe all the other stuff it stores on your computer with [[ffaddon>cookie-autodelete]], this way you'll avoid it's recommendations.
+  * Use a browser plugin like [[ffaddon>blocktube]] so you can block whichever channels you choose from being shown to you.
+  * Try clients like [[Invidious]] and [[NewPipe]].
 ===== Sharing =====
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 ===== Tools =====
-  * [[youtube-dl]] - Great tool for Grabbing YT vids is various formats, or just grabbing the audio.
+  * [[yt-dlp]] - Great tool for Grabbing YT vids is various formats, or just grabbing the audio.
+==== Clients ====
+Youtube's got comepletely unusable for me now. Dunno what combination of [[Firefox]] and ad-blocker settings it is, so I've started using [[Freetube]] for watching videos. It works with redirect add-ons so that videos always open in the program, and you can block channels. On Android I've been using [[Pipepipe]], switched to it after [[Newpipe]] stopped working and was taking to long to release the fixed version.
+Other ones I've seen, some I've tried:
+  * YAYC - https://yayc.stream/ https://github.com/yayc-stream/yayc - haven't tried.
+  * Freetube - Electron. Can block. Can't sign-in, so no watching stuff that needs age verification. Not hideous.
+  * Pipe Viewer - https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer - CLI and GUI.
+  * PlasmaTube - https://github.com/KDE/plasmatube
+  * GTK Youtube Viewer
+  * Minitube - https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube - UI is annoying. Didn't play videos when I checked.
+  * Some Android ones FIXME
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