PSA: #YouTube has begun blocking import on many hosts, including the one we use at TILvids. This means that auto-sync for channels will no longer work, which puts incredible pressure/effort on creators like @thelinuxEXP trying to make content available in multiple locations. Because of this, expect there to be some disruptions in content availability.
This is why it's so important to support non #Google software and services, because they are swiftly becoming a bad actor in the world of #tech
@tilvids @thelinuxEXP Here's a "controversial" take: Google is not the bad actor here. Video streaming is expensive, and they use ads to subsidize this. An IP address which downloads lots of videos (and watches zero ads) is a tax on their resources. Shoe on the other foot: if Google were ddosing peertube servers, you would be justified in blocking their IPs too!
The thing is, @thelinuxEXP 's latest video on YouTube has over 22k views as of the time of this post. In order for TILvids to pull down the video to sync it on our server, that's literally just one view. I am willing to bet that all of TILvids has probably sync'd less than 400 videos, which is roughly 2% of the views of a single TheLinuxExperiment video after 12 hours.
In other words, allowing TILvids to sync costs YouTube effectively nothing.
Agree with you on all points though
@tilvids @thelinuxEXP
Creators: stop treating YouTube as first class and others as backups.
Viewers: stop watching YouTube (literally your life will be better)
Developers: stop making youtube-dl frontends. Make peertube clients that do the p2p thing so we all share the load.