this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
153 points (83.1% liked)
Privacy
31182 readers
1812 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
Chat rooms
-
[Matrix/Element]Dead
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I’m even slightly confused why people even post links to YouTube in a privacy community. I get that people who try to advertise their own channels would do it, but why aren’t people at least posting an invidious instance link to it?
There's some bot that links to piped, but i'd prefer people stop using youtube as a source for information / shilling their channel
piped often doesnt work for me... not sure why
It takes forever to load. Did you let your tea go cold before giving up?
Wait it takes forever for you? Like the piped app? Mine has been instant for the last 2 years. Like straight up faster than the Youtube offical app
Everytime I used Piped I would deal with buffering lasting an entire year, or the video just outright wouldn't play (very common on kavin.rocks)
Invidious doesn't have this problem but it doesn't support Sponsorblock and I'm not a big fan of its UI
Maybe I'll try again, could have been a bad day, but my experience was bad enough I could not justify considering it as a viable alternative.
I thought it was unresponsive until I put my phone down to make some tea, came back and it just then started to play.
I mean with how many upvotes your comment has, I think it means something is different between my experiences and other people's. I'm just not sure what the cause of the difference is.
Yeah I just tried another one, it took 21 seconds to begin playing the video from when I pressed the play button.
Because Privacy isn't 1 or 0 situation. It is granular thing you may think using YouTube crosses the line but others might not agree.
We as a community can choose what crosses the line for this community.
Personally I am fine with YouTube links, there is usually a bot posting a more private link down below if you want. It makes it easy to pick one of the other it isn't that big of a deal.