Video uploading sites are supposed to be free. Social media is meant for the masses. Of course a user has the right to maintain privacy. In this case, video uploading sites like Peertube, rumble gives the option of keeping the video private. There’s also a provision for unlisted videos, which can be watched only when the person has access to the link. Otherwise watching videos on social media is free.

Only youtube has this system of paying for watching videos.

So my question is, is there any means of cracking youtube so that we can have a share of the paid content as well ?

  • tyler@programming.dev
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    1 hour ago

    Video uploading sites are supposed to be free. Social media is meant for the masses.

    What an idiotic statement.

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    6 hours ago

    YouTube isn’t a piece of software. It’s a web service.

    You can’t “crack” it to trick it into thinking you have a license to use all of its features. The authentication required to access the paid content is a lot more complex than a program running on hardware you can control.

    You’re essentially asking the same question as people who want to access netflix for free.

    The answer is no. But someone else might’ve ripped the content you want to see and made it available as a torrent.

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    I can’t help but chuckle at people who think they have to pay for ad free YouTube.

    Install Firefox with Ublock Origin, or preferably LibreWolf which includes it.

    That’s it. Haven’t seen a YouTube ad in…. ever.

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      19 minutes ago

      I’ve got pipepipe on my phone and it’s the best experience of youtube since before the algorithm

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    Video uploading sites are supposed to be free. Social media is meant for the masses. Of course a user has the right to maintain privacy.

    Those are baseless, throw-away assertions. For instance, video uploading & streaming sites obviously cost money—a lot of money in terms of storage and bandwidth. Who exactly is supposing that they “should” be free or private? You? Then just say that you want a free, private site, without framing it in a fantasy universal morality.

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    6 hours ago

    Maan, I feel you. With all the ads that get shoved to our eyeballs, looking forward to the options.

    However, need I remind you that handling yoctabytes of videos uploaded and streaming on a cloud infrastructure is a very, very expensive task (annual operating cost of more than 3 billion dollars) that’s few countries GDP combined!

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    6 hours ago

    app.rvx.android.youtube

    It mimicks YouTube premium. Has built-in AdBlock and sponsor block.

    There is also SmartTube for your Android TV.

    Sometimes it’s a bit glitchy, but it does what it’s supposed to. Google doesn’t like these apps very much of course, so you won’t find them on Google Play.

    They won’t give you access to paid content, but they’ll remove all the BS