<story><title>Why yewtu.be was down: Data loss after being shut down by Oracle Cloud</title><url>https://gist.github.com/yewtudotbe/c16a69ddad88a37c2a364a5ff5359197</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twicetwice</author><text>Yup, for me I cancelled my YouTube Premium subscription—which I had been happy to pay—because of YouTube shorts. They were constantly pushing them in the mobile app, and sometimes I would succumb and click on one, and then often lose several hours to scrolling. Skill issue, I know, but when I went looking for a way to disable them in the UI I found there isn&amp;#x27;t one. I ended up feeling like it was a adversarial relationship—they&amp;#x27;re using dark patterns to hijack my attention to increase their engagement metrics, to my loss—so why would I pay them? I installed NewPipe and subscribed to the creators I watch regularly on Patreon and I&amp;#x27;m very happy with this setup.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>For those not familiar with it, yewtu.be is an Invididous instance, where Invidious is an alternate front-end to YouTube, similar in spirit to Nitter (Twitter), Teddit (Reddit), the late Bibliogram (InstagramProxiTok, and more.  Another YouTube front-end is Piped.  It&amp;#x27;s possible to use public instances of many of these, or to self-host your own.&lt;p&gt;There are browser extensions such as LibRedirect which will automatically, well, redirect requests to these alternatives, with extensive configurability by the user.&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;libredirect&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;libredirect&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;YewTu.be went offline last week amidst news that Google were cracking down on YouTube viewers employing adblocking.&lt;p&gt;As to benefits of Invidious and Piped front-ends:&lt;p&gt;- No subscription required.&lt;p&gt;- Less data exposure to YouTube &amp;#x2F;Google itself.&lt;p&gt;- Lighter website &amp;#x2F; improved UI&amp;#x2F;UX.&lt;p&gt;- One small way of registering dissatisfaction to YouTube for dark patterns &amp;#x2F; user-hostile site practices.&lt;p&gt;Invidious:  &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;invidious.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;invidious.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Invidious&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Invidious&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;Piped:  &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;TeamPiped&amp;#x2F;Piped&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;TeamPiped&amp;#x2F;Piped&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tastysandwich</author><text>Couldn&amp;#x27;t agree more.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t use social media because I think it&amp;#x27;s a net negative in my life. However YouTube I&amp;#x27;ve always justified by following lots of educational content. I&amp;#x27;ve learned a lot of cool things and gained new hobbies just by watching YouTube. One day, leather-working videos popped up on my feed. Soon I was making my own stuff with leather - it was a heap of fun!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve noticed over the past few years though, that no matter how much I try to tweak the algorithm, I&amp;#x27;m just getting mindless junk. And shorts are the worst of it! They&amp;#x27;re deliberately designed to hook you in, so they&amp;#x27;re very hard to ignore.&lt;p&gt;And so YouTube, I have to admit, has become a net negative. Another place for mindless dopamine hits, zombifying us all. I&amp;#x27;m so sad about it!</text></comment>
<story><title>Why yewtu.be was down: Data loss after being shut down by Oracle Cloud</title><url>https://gist.github.com/yewtudotbe/c16a69ddad88a37c2a364a5ff5359197</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twicetwice</author><text>Yup, for me I cancelled my YouTube Premium subscription—which I had been happy to pay—because of YouTube shorts. They were constantly pushing them in the mobile app, and sometimes I would succumb and click on one, and then often lose several hours to scrolling. Skill issue, I know, but when I went looking for a way to disable them in the UI I found there isn&amp;#x27;t one. I ended up feeling like it was a adversarial relationship—they&amp;#x27;re using dark patterns to hijack my attention to increase their engagement metrics, to my loss—so why would I pay them? I installed NewPipe and subscribed to the creators I watch regularly on Patreon and I&amp;#x27;m very happy with this setup.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>For those not familiar with it, yewtu.be is an Invididous instance, where Invidious is an alternate front-end to YouTube, similar in spirit to Nitter (Twitter), Teddit (Reddit), the late Bibliogram (InstagramProxiTok, and more.  Another YouTube front-end is Piped.  It&amp;#x27;s possible to use public instances of many of these, or to self-host your own.&lt;p&gt;There are browser extensions such as LibRedirect which will automatically, well, redirect requests to these alternatives, with extensive configurability by the user.&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;libredirect&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;libredirect&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;YewTu.be went offline last week amidst news that Google were cracking down on YouTube viewers employing adblocking.&lt;p&gt;As to benefits of Invidious and Piped front-ends:&lt;p&gt;- No subscription required.&lt;p&gt;- Less data exposure to YouTube &amp;#x2F;Google itself.&lt;p&gt;- Lighter website &amp;#x2F; improved UI&amp;#x2F;UX.&lt;p&gt;- One small way of registering dissatisfaction to YouTube for dark patterns &amp;#x2F; user-hostile site practices.&lt;p&gt;Invidious:  &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;invidious.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;invidious.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Invidious&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Invidious&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;Piped:  &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;TeamPiped&amp;#x2F;Piped&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;TeamPiped&amp;#x2F;Piped&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simlevesque</author><text>If you use Revanced[1] you can patch Youtube Mobile on Android to completely remove Shorts.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;revanced&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;revanced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;revanced&amp;#x2F;revanced-patches&amp;#x2F;&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;revanced&amp;#x2F;revanced-patches&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>