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Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end | Oct 2023

You can embed videos from an Invidious instance instead; on a video's page[1] there's an "embed video" link[2] you can use. The instance can be one hosted by you if you don't trust public ones, and you probably want to enable proxying by default if you don't want your clients to stream the video directly from Google's servers. You can also use a browser extension like libredirect[3] to automatically replace YouTube embeds with Invidious ones while browsing the web.

[1]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xzTH_ZqaFKI

[2]: https://yewtu.be/embed/xzTH_ZqaFKI

[3]: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers | May 2023

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Yep, check out LibRedirect: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

Ask HN: Why does Reddit force you login to disable auto play? | Apr 2023

Answering the immediate question: KPIs. The company is prepping for an IPO 2H2023,[1] trying to juice engagement, advertising, and revenue stats, and is well down the enshittification track: <https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys> (Doctorow's describing a different site, but the dynamic is identical in cause and consequence.)

As to what to do about it:

- I'm pretty sure RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) will kill this. Even if it doesn't, it's worth using regardless. You'll also want to visit old.reddit.com rather than the default site. <https://redditenhancementsuite.com/>

- Stop using Reddit. I largely have despite investing over a decade in a reasonably-useful-to-me bloggish subreddit. Cakeday threads are increasingly ironic. <https://teddit.net/r/dredmorbius/comments/ywhz7s/happy_caked...>

- If you have to use it, go through the Teddit front end: <https://teddit.net/about> You can simply replace "reddit.com" with "teddit.net" in any URL, or install a redirector browser extension such as LibRedirect: <https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension>

- Look to alternative discussion sites. I'm a member of (though fairly rare participant these days) Tildes <https://tildes.net>. There's a Federated Reddit alternative as well, Lemmy: <https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy>. Probably others.

- Spend your time more wisely. I'm finding online content vastly unrewarding in general, with few exceptions. Wikipedia for reference, and a few other informational sites. I'll check text-only news (there was a great HN discussion on this a few weeks back: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313232> based on <https://blog.wturrell.co.uk/text-only-news-websites/>). Mostly though I rely on articles, books, or (carefully curated) podcasts.

Hacker News is a quite-good link aggregator. If you want even more discriminating selections, check the curated collections:

- "best" <https://news.ycombinator.com/best>

- "invited" <https://news.ycombinator.com/invited>

- or "pool" (2nd-chance submissions) <https://news.ycombinator.com/pool>

You can also use Algolia Search to show the top items from the past week, month, or year, according to HN's vote and activity stats, by submitting a blank search and selecting the appropriate date range:

- Best of past week: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...>

- Best of past month: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...>

- Best of past year: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...>

(You can also specify your own preferred date bounds, though that's more awkward.)

HN's discussion quality varies, but it's well above the general level of Reddit, popular subreddits most particularly.

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Notes:

1. "Reddit aims for IPO in second half of 2023 - The Information" <https://neuters.de/technology/reddit-aims-ipo-second-half-20...>

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