Yeah, I have been hearing about Youtube blocking ad blocks for a while now and I thought maybe Firefox + uBlock Origin is holding ads at bay for a while, but yeah, it happened today. uBlock origin has been unable to block some ads for me and I am thinking of leaving Youtube. I searched day and night (wink wink) for an alternative and I found odysee.com/ and it seems to be open source and less prone to censorship, I was wondering what you guys were using or thinking of switching too. I think Odysee is FOSS which is giant plus for me and I absolutely love it’s looks.

What do you guys think?

  • Maddison@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 year ago

    If a youtuber I’m interested in mirrors their videos somewhere else, I’ll subscribe to that source via RSS. But that’s just to divert traffic from YouTube, not because I have a preference either way regarding community interactions (I never read comments on videos).

    can you please explain this in detail, I don’t know about RSS and everything

    • orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Basically, an RSS feed is a link that gets updated when there’s an update to a website (here’s an example from my website). Anytime I post something, it gets updated.

      An RSS feed reader is an app that you can use to list out which websites you’re interested in, and pulls up any new articles that get published.

      RSS feeds are everywhere, but often hidden beneath the surface. For example, in the youtube page for Reuters you can’t see any link to an RSS feed, but if you right-click and press “inspect page source”, and then Ctrl+f for the word “rss”, you can find the link hidden there: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UChqUTb7kYRX8-EiaN3XFrSQ

      Most RSS feed readers would be able to find that hidden link for you (you’d just have to give it the normal youtube page link). This is how I “subscribe” to things, I just have one central app where I get updates on everything I’m interested in following (blogs, news, videos, etc)