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Matthew Weber:

Well, in my quest to track every minute of my day, I installed a tracker for my browser. In the last week, I’ve spent over 15 hours on YouTube. And that doesn’t count any time I’ve spent on YT while mobile. Of which, I’m sure there’s probably an equal amount. 

That’s horrendous.

I can’t even blame background music, I don’t think, since the browser tracker only tracks the damn webpage when it’s in focus and active. So that means I spent that much time actually watching YouTube videos.

I spend too much time watching YouTube videos as well and am looking to try and cut back in the coming weeks.

My current plan:

• Subscribe to more podcasts — including channels on Odysee, which, conveniently offers RSS feeds that work in any podcast app that supports video.
• Setup an Invidious instance to follow a smaller number of channels. I’ve done so on my Umbrel Home, but I could have used a public instance or installed it by another method.
• Go to Invidious when I want to watch something instead of YouTube itself — either new videos from my subscriptions or search. That should help keep me from aimlessly browsing.
• Try to find a new show to watch, which will keep more of my time in Plex.

I’m not doing any tracking of my usage at all, but in the past few days it sure seems like I’m navigating to YouTube’s website less frequently.

➝ Source: mtwb.blog

This video has kind of an odd style, but I found it an incredibly useful resource while manually installing Invidious. And I’m sure I’ll reference it again in the future when updating my install.

➝ Source: m.youtube.com

Andy Maxwell, reporting for TorrentFreak:

The developers of Invidious, a privacy-respecting alternative front-end for YouTube, have received a cease-and-desist notice from YouTube’s legal department. The free and open source software, which provides a YouTube experience minus advertising and user tracking, has been instructed to shut down within seven days. As things stand, cooperation isn’t on the agenda. […]

The main problems apparent in Google’s cease and desist are straightforward; Invidious does not use YouTube’s API, and as a result, the project’s developers never agreed to any associated terms of service. As anyone who foolishly left their own instance open to the public will confirm, Invidious is effectively a proxy service, one with a penchant for bandwidth.

I’ve started using Invidious more over the past few months. Although I continue to pay for YouTube Premium for the ad-free experience on Apple TV, I would rather use Invidious on every device where I’m able to. I think of Invidious as a way to slowly ween myself off of YouTube content — much like I did with IFTTT and BirdSiteLive for Twitter.

I’m glad to see the developers behind the project are standing their ground. And luckily, because Invidious is open source, there isn’t really much Google can do to stop its development or prevent its distribution.

➝ Source: torrentfreak.com