I think this should serve as a warning for us all to download everything you can get your hands on, while privacy respecting YouTube front ends are still available.

I'm thinking of starting a community where people can post magnet links to the YouTube videos they've downloaded and are willing to seed. Do torrent sites allow YouTube videos? Since they are technically already free.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don't do Youtube a favor by saving the videos it hosts.

The more people are inconvenienced by Google, the more Youtubers are squeezed by Google and the more annoyed subscribers they lose, the better for alternative platforms.

Let Youtube enshittify itself to oblivion.

[–] transitinoir@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago

I doubt Youtube's enshittification would do anything good for its competitors. Youtube is kinda shitty already, everyone knows it and everyone whines about it, yet no one switches.

Also hosting videos is unprofitable, Google only sustains Youtube to have data to feed AI on and to maintain market dominance. Competitors stand no chance.

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