Youtube updated its policies to no longer ban claims that masks do not play a role in preventing spread of COVID

Essentially, you are now allowed to claim masks don't work

https://twitter.com/timcast/status/1561906311125680138

#yt #censorship #masks

Inside YouTube’s new “Medical Misinformation Policy”

Kit Knightly

A few days ago YouTube amended their Covid19 Misinformation policy, changing it so it now applies to all things medical.

The original policy was put in place in the early days of the pandemic, May 2020, and outlawed content in the video sharing platform that “contradicted the WHO or local health authorities” concerning the pandemic:

Over the years it’s been regularly updated, outright banning all “vaccine misinformation” in late 2021.

The latest revamp is the biggest so far. The new “medical misinformation policy” – no longer just “covid19 misinformation” – now addresses cancer treatments, abortion…...

Read full article ...

https://off-guardian.org/2023/08/18/inside-youtubes-new-medical-misinformation-policy/

#yt #google #ot

#yt #disinformation

BraveNewPipe

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android

Due to restrictive project policy, the #NewPipe team refuses to add platforms that they find offensive. This fork (BraveNewPipe) will not be as restrictive. As long as the platforms work in the spirit of free speech, they could be integrated.
Nevertheless, platforms that promote pornography or other degrading things will NOT be included here.

Contribute
This fork will focus only on integrating other platforms. Unrelated patches will be rejected for now.
Feel free to suggest which alternative platforms should be included. Any contribution (development/testing/bug report) is greatly appreciated.

Which additional platforms are supported?
Bitchute
Rumble

Other features not found in NewPipe
-NewPipe x Sponsorblock into this fork
-searchfilters: in the action menu of the search page you can now change the search behavior for the actual search. The supported content/sort filters depend on the service

https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe

Download
https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe/releases

#yt #video #streaming

⚡️You-Get: Download video, audio, images from the web easily!

Ever wanted to pull a bunch of content down so you can watch later?

You-Get is a CLI (command line interface) utility that makes it easy to download videos, audio, and images from the web.

https://you-get.org

you-get 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'

You Get supports an impressive array of sites: Youtube, Twitter, VK, Tumblr, Soundcloud, Instagram, Facebook, and countless others!

It supports downloading YouTube playlists as well, it'll go through each video in the playlist.

Downloads can be very slow though, I recommend you use the —info flag before downloading to see what formats are available. Then you can run the command again with the —i-tag flag at whichever quality level is right for you.

You can download videos off of big tech platforms / paywalls by using the '—cookies' flag and pointing to a Firefox cookies database (cookies.sqlite).

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Cobalt

A media downloader website that doesn't piss you off. it's fast, friendly, and doesn't have any bullshit that modern web is filled with: no ads, trackers, or invasive analytics.
paste the link, get the file, move on. it's that simple. just how it should be. You can host your own instance

• bilibili.com & bilibili.tv
• dailymotion videos
• instagram reels, posts & stories
• ok video
• pinterest videos & stories
• reddit videos & gifs
• rutube videos
• soundcloud
• streamable.com
• tiktok videos, photos & audio
• tumblr video & audio
• twitch clips
• twitter videos & voice
• vimeo
• vine archive
• vk video & clips
• youtube videos, shorts & music
cobalt is not affiliated with any services listed above.
this list is not final and keeps expanding over time, make sure to check it once in a while!

https://cobalt.tools

https://github.com/wukko/cobalt

https://status.cobalt.tools

https://github.com/wukko/cobalt/blob/current/docs/troubleshooting.md

Review:
This thing recodes sound to MP3 by default (more lossy distortion on top of whichever lossy codec like AAC the original video uses) which is a very bad idea. Also it processes files and gives its own server links even if the file is something like a YT video that can be downloaded off the original Google servers (with no transcoding whatsoever specified in settings).
And it's all lowercase

#web #video #downloader #yt

#censorship #Google #yt #why

#praxis #yt

Sauce

#yt #Google #censorship

Invidious is currently being blocked by Google. Please use Materialious on Android or Desktop to get around this with local video fallback.

#yt

#NewPipe on #Linux, Using Android_translation_layer

https://flathub.org/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe

Comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41963932

#yt

https://youtu.be/qOQgsnw4yHE

#ai #yt #YouTube #Google #why

SmartTube

Advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS

Features
No Ads
Designed for TV screens
Up to 8K video resolution
Login into your account
Cast from the phone
Support tv box remote controller
Support external software keyboard
Support devices without Google Services
Open source

https://smarttubeapp.github.io

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases

WARNING NOT FULLY OPEN SOURCE
There are at least 5 proprietary libraries in the app.
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/issues/471

#video #yt #androidtv

ReVanced

https://revanced.app

Download
https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases

ReVanced Documentation
https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-documentation

Patches
https://revanced.app/patches

https://github.com/revanced

https://t.me/app_revanced

#revanced #vanced #video #yt #android

Olivia

Online and local #music player for #Linux Desktop

https://github.com/keshavbhatt/olivia

Stable and Nightly Build on any snapd enabled Linux Distribution can be installed using:
snap install olivia
https://snapcraft.io/olivia

Arch Linux User's Repository
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/olivia

Features
Olivia helps you discover new music and videos like no other service do.
Smart Music recommendation, can get you songs related to any song.
Allows organise music and videos at one place.
Olivia can save track while you are streaming it, this saves your bandwidth.
Olivia never stops playing song for you with its smart playlist feature it automatically starts playing related songs for you once your playlist ends.
Watch or Download Video for any song in different audio video formats and quality.
Allows search YouTube and add result to library, sort results and all other #YouTube features like browse channels.
Plays audio only of YouTube streams (saves data bandwidth).
Support themes , Dynamic theme based on album art.
Intelligent Music Search suggestions engine integrated.
Player Mini mode a minimal player widget with always on capability and allows set transparency and make it act like a desktop widget.
Switch to Smart mode and sit back, olivia will play songs for you automatically.
Internet radio, allows play more than 25k online radio stations, list them sort them according to most played , most voted, language wise, country wise and by tags .
Olivia lets you browse new music according to your location.
Olivia lets you discover music based on their genres, moods and more.
Its easy to discover new music - singles, albums etc easily at one place.
Top music chart, allows list top 100 songs country wise.
Top albums chart, allows list top 100 albums county wise.
Beautiful Client side Decoration.
Lyrics of playing songs and separate lyrics search.
Powerful audio equalizers and audio filters.
MPRIS protocol support.
Audio export with meta tags and album art.
More features like cloud synchronisation of your Liked Music is coming soon, so you will be able to get your music back no matter where you are.

#yt #spotify

Mission Un-Accomplished? The Corbett Report Back on YouTube

To YouTube or not to YouTube, that is the question. And it’s no longer a hypothetical question! That’s right, the YouTube overlords have decided to allow The Corbett Report once again. Whoopie? So, what should be done? I have my own thoughts, but I want to hear yours. Let it rip in the comment section (registered members only).

https://corbettreport.com/mission-un-accomplished-the-corbett-report-back-on-youtube/

#censorship #yt #YouTube #Google #why

The App That Google Couldn’t Shut Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlc255SwBXw

ReVanced Manager is an application that uses ReVanced Patcher to patch Android apps.

💪 Features
💉 Patch apps: Apply any patch of your choice to Android apps
📱 Portable: ReVanced Patcher that fits in your pocket
🤗 Simple UI: Quickly understand the ins and outs of ReVanced Manager
🛠️ Customization: Configurable API, custom sources, language, signing keystore, theme and more

🔽 Download
You can download the most recent version of ReVanced Manager at revanced.app/download or from GitHub releases.
Learn how to use ReVanced Manager by following the documentation.

#yt #YouTube #Vanced #revanced