Comment on Piped/Invidious
xxd@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I selfhosted Invidious a while back, but gave up on it when it stopped working and I couldn’t figure out why. I have no experience with Piped.
I settled on a third alternative, but I don’t want to point too much attention to it because I think it might be flying under Youtubes’ radar at the moment. But let me say this: if you embed a youtube video on a third party site and have it be part of a playlist with only the video in it, you won’t see any ads. so for example I’d be embedding a link like this: www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ?playli… on my own page and can then watch it without ads :) if you have any questions, feel free to hit me up.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sounds like a loophole that would be pretty easy to cover from YT? Why would they be so generous and not showing ads in playlists
Wierd lol
xxd@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
yeah I know, makes no sense. I’ll use this workaround for as long as possible, but I’m sure I’ll have to move to Piped or Invidious sooner or later.
feminalpanda@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Playlists usually don’t have eyes watching so businesses don’t want to pay for their ads on playlists.
xxd@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
The thing is, I do see ads when I open the embedded video/playlist on youtube! I don’t think businesses would specifically avoid embedded playlists, but then happily advertise on playlists on youtube. It just looks like an oversight rather than a business decision to me.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Butbutbut radios don’t have eyes watching neither? Lol