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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by sandworm101 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:34AM (#14139709)
Fellow crazy linux user here. I follow many youtube channels but, as a canadian, am not allowed to support them with cash. (Red and all the other premium schemes never include us.) I too have trouble with youtube's interface and am often on a sat connection which makes everything more frustrating. Instead i use a combination of tools to download the vids directly, which denies my favorite channels even basic ad revenues. Youtube is the choke point.
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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by frgtpsswrdlame on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:42PM (#14142207)
A bit of a sidebar but what tools do you use? Youtube-dl and a script to handle lost connections or something more complicated? I'm looking for a solution to a similar problem.
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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by sandworm101 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:53PM (#14142805)
I use a rather shady service popular with filesharers. For about 3$ a month i get access to a web interface that will download from the various hosting services (ie rapidgator) but also youtube. The video downloads then as a normal mpeg file over a secure connection, not a stream. They do the same for torrents, allowing me to get many linux distros without running a torrent client over a sat connection.
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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by boomboomsubban on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:09PM (#14143446)
The script is barely necessary, youtube-dl resumes downloads when run again. If it's a regular thing, set up a cron job to run more frequently than necessary, if it's one time run the command then ; sleep 300 ; the command again

Youtube-dl just does what you want 90% of the time, and good docs for the rest.

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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by rasz on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:55PM (#14143777)
I made https://github.com/raszpl/smplayer4YT for windows and chrome/vivaldi/opera
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