Update 21/09/2024: #4734 (comment) EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have...
Sadly, this is not simple like this. Of course, there is “haha I will touch grass now”, but there are pieces of content that are needed yet there’s no analog elsewhere. Disassembly guides for random pieces of tech. Lectures. Task breakdowns from competitions. A lot of things the original uploaders put there and just forgot.
I mean, I can only do my part by downloading everything I like or may need - in fear of it potentially being taken away. But not sure where I’d reupload it.
Sadly, this is not simple like this. Of course, there is “haha I will touch grass now”, but there are pieces of content that are needed yet there’s no analog elsewhere. Disassembly guides for random pieces of tech. Lectures. Task breakdowns from competitions. A lot of things the original uploaders put there and just forgot.
Youtube has far too much held hostage.
I think it’s just a matter of sacrificing that for the good of all, otherwise you will never leave YouTube and the monopoly keeps exploiting you.
But a better service needs to arrive first by someone, and that seems unlikely, given the cost to store video.
I mean, I can only do my part by downloading everything I like or may need - in fear of it potentially being taken away. But not sure where I’d reupload it.