Youtube is fucking cancer.
FTFY.
some (old) movies, travel vids and documentaries are ok... but it also depends on the language/region..
And I never watch what is recommended by the algo.
Sure, there is
some good content on Youtube. For example, it has happened that Pieter Wuille gave a tech talk about new developments in Bitcoin, and it got posted to Youtube, and there was no transcript containing the information that was not readily available anywhere else.
Some good content. That makes it all the worse, because Youtube itself is cancer.
Here are a few handy tools for mitigating the ill health effects. (There are others... search around.)
https://freetubeapp.io/Easy to use, point-and-click—not so “private” unless you are also properly using privacy networks (a complicated subject), but definitely less unprivate than using Youtube’s site. Can be used to watch videos—and/or to download and save videos, with some trick (search the docs). Youtube only; no support for other video sites.
Source code:
https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTubeShell application, for downloading videos from numerous video sites (including many news sites, etc.) to your local disk:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dlRelated:
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/Youtube-dl has many forks, due to controversial handling of the project by its developers. E.g.,
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp(More site support, fixed bugs, more features, better handling of Youtube videos that youtube-dl fails to download for various reasons.)
If you have adequate disk space, you can conveniently grab the content of entire channels at the best available quality.
Youtube-dl was briefly deleted from Github with a frivolous DMCA complaint.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-youtube-dl-after-riaas-abuse-dmcaI really enjoyed YT around 2010... a lot of trashy conspiracy stuff including some interesting facts here and there ...and (almost) no censorship...
Meet the new television. They want to make it as similar as they can to the old television. Damn those independent content producers. Damn those people who shared things you couldn’t find anywhere else. We need a bland, corporate-friendly culture with no thinking of unapproved thoughts, no saying of unapproved things. We need only content that makes $$$ for approved people. Nowadays, of course, that includes shills and paid mouthpieces and other so-called “crypto influencers”.
Edit: Correction of careless statement. Still need more coffee. :/
Edit again, much later: Elaborate on what I meant by “some good content”.