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YouTube without (personalized) recommendations The feature they - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
YouTube without (personalized) recommendations The feature they - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
YouTube without (personalized) recommendations The feature they dont talk about Felix Morsbach November 24, 2019 What is this all about? 1 Newsboat + YouTube: 2 An alternative! 1 5 What is this all about? T he WHY ? Journey to
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What is this all about?
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The WHY ?
Journey to de-googlify myself YouTube knows a scary amount of my personal preferences But I don’t want to miss out on my daily doses of Linus and co. Quest: Looking for an alternative!
◮ Able to keep track of favourite channels ◮ Without making it easy to track me
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The WHAT ?
Use YouTube’s RSS endpoints Use a local RSS reader to poll each channel
◮ No dependency on another online service
Watch YouTube videos without a browser
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The HOW ?
- 1. Choose a RSS reader
◮ I chose Newsboat, a customizable terminal RSS reader
- 2. Transform all your YT subscriptions into RSS subscriptions
◮ Simple script transforming OMPL to the simple Newsboat format
- 3. Add new subscriptions by finding the channel id
◮ pre-built scripts or services available
- 4. (Optional) Use a command line video player like MPV
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Newsboat + YouTube: An alternative!
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Demo
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Links
For a more detailed write up on how to set this up for your own, see: www.the-privacy-captain.net
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