Difference between revisions of "Youtube"

Latest revision as of 18:21, 3 December 2025

Anonymous 18:54, 3 December 2025 (EDT)

I hate Youtube. But some of you guys are okay, so don't go there tomorrow.

This page is a constantly updated article where I attempt to give new video sources. It has a ton of information. It will probably never be finished, as I will continue to add links to streaming sites and other shady websites as I find them. Additionally, this page contains links to paid services, in case you want to watch something else.
Stay tuned.

New Channels I Check Out In 2023 2024 2025

~~New stuff to check out. At this point, there is very little new stuff.~~ Fugg it. Just putting links here so I don't have to fire up spalshtop on my tablet...

Outdoors Stuff


Surviving Ringworm	Nik Rijavec	The Outsider	This Offgrid Life	TA Outdoors
Traplines and Inlines	Woodness Goodness	Chris Harbour	Primitive Technology	Primitive Skills
50 Acres and a Cabin	Jay and Jen	Modern Self Reliance	Kyle's Cabin	Off grid living with Cierra
Erik Grankvist	Smooth Gefixt	Wood Junkie	Nick and Maëla	Gesiþas Gewissa

Food and Cooking


Original Iron Chef	ReveiwBrah	Steve1989MreInfo	Food Wishes
Bon Appetit	Brad Leone	Hot Ones	Sam the Cooking Guy
BBQ Pit Boys	Justin Wilson	Emeril Lagasse	KQED - Yan, Pepin, etc
Adam Ragusea	French Cooking Academy	Chef Jean Pierre	Sip and Feast
DancingBacons	Self Serving Skillet *******	李子柒 Liziqi	Townsends
What Are We Eating?	Guga Foods	Julia Child	You Suck At Cooking
That Dude Can Cook	Brian Lagerstrom	Weird History Food	Joshua Weissman
Uncle Roger	A Pinch of Patience	Brooklyn Brothers Cooking	Tasting History with Max Miller

Political Fun


Hodge Twins	Mark Dice	Zeducation	Liberal Hivemind
Odins Men	Eyes Wide Open	Steven Crowder	Tucker Carlson
Vincent Major	Mike Benz	Don't Walk, RUN Productions

Movies and Television


The Critical Drinker	Ozzy Man Reviews	LandumC Goes There	Rowan J Coleman
Red Letter Media	Minty Comedic Arts	Classic Comedy Channel	Alien Theory
Heavy Spoilers	House MD

History, Science, Social Commentary

Some of these channels are controlled by commie fuckos, but sometimes they produce good content.


The Histocrat	SkyCorpVideo	Smarter everyday	bald and bankrupt
Company Man	Internet Historian	Technology Connections	Absolute History
Mark Felton	Mythology & Fiction	Ryan Hall Y'all	The History Guy
Lost in the Pond	It's Okay to be Smart	Weird History	Joe Scott
Thoughty2	Veritasium	Paul Harvey clips	The Fat Electrician
The Fat Files	FORGOTTEN HISTORY	Sydney Watson	Powerful JRE
Bright Insight	DeDunking	whatever podcast	Donut Operator TV

Tolkien Guys


Nerd of the Rings	Men of the West	Darth Gandalf	In Deep Geek
The Broken Sword	The Red Book	Fact or Fantasy	Tolkien Untangled
DemonFlyingFox - AI videos	Echoes of Eä

Normie Channels


LockPickingLawyer	Joshua Roberts -- Lawyer Up.	The Infographics Show	Simon Whistler's group of channels
The Deev Channel

Crazy Lego

Some outstanding Lego creations. These guys spend way too much time on making stuff, but I love it anyways.


Brick Bending	Beyond the Brick	Brickcrafts
Brick Experiment Channel	Brick Technology	TD Bricks

Weird, Spooky, Odd


The Why Files	Bedtime Stories	Nexpo	Ask a Mortician
MrBallen	Twisted Minds	That Chapter	Dark Docs
Dark5 TV	Dark Skies	Dark Files	Dark Footage
theLittleFears	T's Storytime

Rednecks and Other Stupidity


Police Activity	FPSRussia	Shed Happens	Tow Trucker
Katina Eats Kilos	Audit the Audit	Beard Meets Food.	Code Blue Cam
Explore With Us	Nathan Figueroa	JCS criminal psychology	JCS - crime zone

Music And Musical Commentary


Lord Vinheteiro	Dave504	Rick Beato	Professor of Rock
Delta Empire.	Kye Smith	12Tone

Home Improvement


Silver Cymbal Home DIY	HAXMAN

James Duane

Probably the most important video on all of Youtube. I check it out from time to time because the lesson is timeless.

Law Professor James Duane -- Don't Talk to the Police

Also, putting this here, because youtube tries to hide it.

Stuff NOT on youtube

A lot of shady shit going on here. Use uBlock Origin and a few condoms.

Here is a wiki that has links to all sorts of streaming/downloading resources: FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH Please forgive a reddit link. FMHY actually has it's own website. Here is the website's link.

Stuff On Other Platforms

Sports Streaming Sites


Sportsurge	NFLbite	Streameast	NFLstreams	LotusgameHD

Check for StreamEast mirrors

NHL Streams

These are sites not found on Sportsurge or Streameast;


NHLstreams.io	NHL Stream Net	NHL 66	OnHockey	NHLbite

News Streaming Sites


Planetnews	USnewsON	USTVGO
123News	WatchNewsLive	Tucker Archive

Movie and Live Television Sites (Updated 2025)

These are shady websites that contain malware. Use only with a version of firefox with the correct addons that will protect you from such shadiness.

As you can see by the strike through texts, these links often go down because of copyright claims and other goodie-two-shoes shenanigans. It is a good idea to check in on forums and other informational sites to see where the new sites and new mirrors are popping up.


movies 123	FMovies	~~1movieshd~~	~~favmovies~~
~~Cartoons~~	Movies Joy	Yes Movies	~~flixtorz~~
Watchseries	swatchseries	~~favmovies~~	hdtodayz
~~fbox,/s>~~	~~bflixz~~	~~heymovies~~	~~huramovies~~
~~hurawatch~~	~~movies7~~	smashstream	lonelil
Telegram for streams	lookmovie2	redvido	pahe
streamwatch.online	watchug	bingemaster	yuppow
flix wave

I grabbed some links from FMHY and added them here.

Let The Government Help

Something pretty funny that I discovered is that the United States Government curates a list of "notorious websites" that they offer in a .pdf download. This list gives you an updated set of websites that will allow you to get free content from the internet if you are savvy enough to skate around all the bullshit. Below, you will find a recent copy:

Documentary and History

Documentary Heaven

youtube Itself

yup, youtube gained popularity by giving the little guy a voice. only to take away his voice, and give it right back to the media giants - Erotica putting it more adroitly than I could manage.

When something is dumb, crude, and cruel, it is usually referred to as a monster. I am taking the side of many content providers. Youtube is the monster. When censorship, demonetization, and other random fuckery occurs, you know a media conglomerate is pulling strings to steer viewers away from content that they desire. We see it in all other forms of social media,^[1] but when you consider how great Youtube started off, compared to what it is doing today,^[2] you know something dastardly is up.

Why?^[3]^[4]

My Conclusion

Meeting Your Online "Friend" - Internet Safety PSA

In a world full of streaming garbage,^[5]^[6] actual human beings make content on Youtube from time to time. I try to make sure my links are to everyday people instead of those stupid reddit channels that have a computer generated voice just re-reading posts. I also try to limit my viewing of "reaction" content because most of them are just disingenuous fuckos who act like they don't know who Led Zeppelin is or that The Wizard of Oz is a movie.

If I see a guy, gal, or team actually trying to make good, wholesome content, I will try to pay attention. This usually lasts until they annoy me, or do something stupid enough for me to turn off their channel forever. That is the main reason why I created that list of links. Almost all of them are people that offer something other than just begging for Youtube bullshit.^[7]

As for professional production on Youtube channels... Yes, I am aware that quite a few of the links that I have listed above (Bon Appetite, Simon Whistler, etc) are actual companies that pour tens of thousands of dollars into the quality, content, and production of their videos. They may be Youtube suck-ups, creating content for money or for publicity, but at least they create content that is half way interesting. The Hot Ones challenge is one perfect example of this. However, as fun and interesting a highly produced and slick video may be, I still like watching some guy out in the woods, with one camera, building something.

This guy almost fully summed it up for me:

In 2005 up until maybe 2010-2011, YouTube was a social network site where you could broadcast yourself and watch original videos like Charlie Bit My Finger, Chocolate Rain, Urban Ninja, Evolution of Dance, Smosh (when they were good, and Nigahiga (when he was good).

Now YouTube's basically a low-quality streaming service filled with ads and low-quality YouTubers who make the same reviews, bad gaming videos, and stuff just to make money. It's a shame that YouTube went from an original social network of fun videos to a safe haven for the richest 1%.^[8]

Suggested youtube Alternatives

It's pretty crazy that when you use google or bing to find alternatives to youtube, they only briefly mention some good sites, but quickly resort to paid services, or compromised platforms.^[9]^[10]

I will soon begin to add my own personal alternatives to youtube here, but as of this time,^[11] I can only add:

Rumble
Piped

TikTok

youtube has decided to combat TikTok with it's own "shorts" videos. Because TikTok is going to be banned soon, "shorts" will probably become incredibly popular. However, there is Scoopz, that is not really polished just yet, but will probably go crazy in the next year or so.

youtube Advertisements

youtube ads have become crazy. The platform loses money like drunk gambler, and they are desperate for ad revenue. Ublock Origin^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15] will defeat most advertisements on youtube, but...

YouTube changes their detection scripts regularly, which means there might be times that you encounter their message. There's no way around this if you want to remain logged in. It should only happen in brief periods of time after they change scripts and before we updated our filters. You can visit this page to see if the latest script has been fixed already. If it has and you get the message, please read the thread carefully.^[16]

Activate the uBlock Origin icon and select the "Open the dashboard" icon in the interface that opens.
Switch to the Filter Lists tab.
Click on the "purge all caches" button.
Select the "update now" button afterwards.

This removes cached content from the add-on, which may include outdated instructions on dealing with YouTube's attempts to display ads even while an ad-blocker is enabled.

When you reload the page after you have followed the instructions, you should notice that the video loads normally again. No ads will play while watching it on YouTube.^[17]

youtube Throttles Firefox

A Google spokesperson had this to say: We've launched a global effort to urge viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on youtube or try youtube Premium for an ad-free experience. Ads support a diverse ecosystem of creators globally and allow billions to access their favorite content on YouTube.^[18]

youtube has been on a monetization push recently, as it began blocking ad-blockers and pushing users to buy youtube Premium. That move makes sense in many ways, as the platform needs to make money to survive and compensate creators who depend on the platform for their living. But some other actions by youtube make less sense. Users are now reporting that youtube has begun slowing down its desktop website for some Firefox and Edge users, and we are perplexed.

Then, this was found:

setTimeout(function(){c();a.resolve(1)},5E3);

To combat this issue, use User Agent Switcher. However, be aware that firefox is pretty pozzed now.

Download?

There are a bunch of other online websites that will do the job. Usually you can just google them.

Stuff I Have Been Told To Watch

Conagher
Landman

References

↑ I really don't like to call Youtube "social media" these days, with how they control and direct their content.
↑ https://www.investopedia.com/google-s-incredible-youtube-purchase-15-years-later-5200225
↑ https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/18280900/why-is-this-garbage-showing-up-in-my-recommended-videos?hl=en
↑ It's because GoogleYouTube has become a blatantly manipulative, insidious company that employs some very unscrupulous, devious, and downright toxic people. It's because they have an endless multi-tentacled agenda and not-so-ulterior but highly objectionable motives.
↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2022/04/20/elon-musk-dismisses-netflix-as-woke-and-unwatchable/?sh=5805d8f2611b
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRRtTIvZVY
↑ https://asknaij.com/why-do-youtubers-beg-for-likes-and-subscribers/
↑ https://www.thetoptens.com/youtube/ways-youtube-sucks-now/
↑ https://kinsta.com/blog/alternatives-to-youtube/
↑ https://www.yumyumvideos.com/6-amazing-video-websites-that-arent-youtube-wp/
↑ April 3rd, 2024
↑ https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-origin/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak
↑ https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1323364
↑ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?pli=1
↑ Suck it apple users.
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231118005621/https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/
↑ https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/03/youtube-showing-ads-with-ublock-origin-enabled-here-is-a-fix/
↑ https://www.zdnet.com/article/its-official-your-ad-free-youtube-glory-days-are-over/

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 Stay tuned.}}</center>
-==Channels I Check Out==
+==New Channels I Check Out In <s>2023</s> <s>2024</s> 2025==
-===New In <s>2023</s> <s>2024</s> 2025===
 [[File:sierra.jpg|right|150px]]
 <s>New stuff to check out.  At this point, there is very little new stuff.</s> Fugg it. Just putting links here so I don't have to fire up spalshtop on my tablet...
@@ Line 16: / Line 14: @@
 *<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@northtoalaska2022/videos North To Alaska]</span>
 *<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@Solidjj/videos Solid JJ]</span>
-*<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.pepperbox.tv Pepperbox Tv - NOT youtube]</span>
+*<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@SecretScholars/videos Warren Smith - Secret Scholar Society]</span>
 ==Outdoors Stuff==
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 | <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@mrnigelng/videos Uncle Roger]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@apinchofpatience/videos A Pinch of Patience]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@BrooklynBrothersCooking/videos Brooklyn Brothers Cooking]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@TastingHistory/videos Tasting History with Max Miller]</span>
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 ==Political Fun==
@@ Line 77: / Line 76: @@
 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@heavyspoilers/videos Heavy Spoilers]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@HouseM.D./videos House MD]</span>
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 ==History, Science, Social Commentary==
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 ==Tolkien Guys==
+[[File:One ring.png|right|100px]]
 {| style="width: 90%; font-size:100%;"
 |+
@@ Line 111: / Line 112: @@
 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@demonflyingfox/videos DemonFlyingFox - AI videos] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@EchoesofE%C3%A4/videos Echoes of Eä]
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 ==Normie Channels==
@@ Line 120: / Line 122: @@
 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@DEEVreal/videos The Deev Channel]</span>
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 ==Crazy Lego==
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 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/user/theLittleFears/videos theLittleFears]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@foreverstorytime2566/videos T's Storytime]</span>
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 ==Rednecks and Other Stupidity==
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 | <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@ExploreWithUs/videos Explore With Us]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@natefiggs/videos Nathan Figueroa]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@JCS/videos JCS criminal psychology]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@TheCrimeZone/videos JCS - crime zone]</span>
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 ==Music And Musical Commentary==
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 |+
 |-
-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@Lord_Vinheteiro/videos Lord Vinheteiro] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/c/Davie504/videos Dave504] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/c/RickBeato/videos Rick Beato]
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@Lord_Vinheteiro/videos Lord Vinheteiro]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/c/Davie504/videos Dave504]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/c/RickBeato/videos Rick Beato]</span> ||<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorofRock/videos Professor of Rock]</span>
-|-
-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorofRock/videos Professor of Rock] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@DeltaEmpire/videos Delta Empire.] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@KyeSmith/videos Kye Smith]
 |-
-|[https://www.youtube.com/@12tone/videos 12Tone]
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@DeltaEmpire/videos Delta Empire.]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@KyeSmith/videos Kye Smith]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@12tone/videos 12Tone]</span>
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 ==Home Improvement==
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 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@SilverCymbal/videos Silver Cymbal Home DIY]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/@HAXMAN/videos HAXMAN]</span>
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 ==James Duane==
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 ==Stuff NOT on youtube==
-[[File:youtubish.jpg|right|100px]]
+[[File:youtubish.jpg|right|80px]]
 A lot of shady shit going on here. Use <span class="plainlinks">[https://ublockorigin.com/ uBlock Origin]</span> and a few condoms.
-Here is a wiki that has links to all sorts of streaming/downloading resources:  <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/index/ FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH]</span>  Please forgive a reddit link.
+Here is a wiki that has links to all sorts of streaming/downloading resources:  <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/index/ FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH]</span>  Please forgive a reddit link.  FMHY actually has it's own website.  <span class="plainlinks">[https://fmhy.net Here is the website's link.]</span>
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
-<span class="plainlinks">[https://fmhy.net Here is the website's link.]</span>
+==Stuff On Other Platforms==
+*<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.pepperbox.tv Pepperbox Tv]</span>
+*<span class="plainlinks">[https://rumble.com/c/StevenCrowder?e9s=src_v5_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_sa Steven Crowder on Rumble]</span>
 ==Sports Streaming Sites==
@@ Line 199: / Line 207: @@
 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://nflstreams.me/ NFLstreams]</span> || <span class="plainlinks">[https://lotusgamehd.xyz LotusgameHD]</span>
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 <span class="plainlinks">[https://gostreameast.link <small>Check for StreamEast mirrors</small>]</span>
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 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://nhlstreams.io NHLstreams.io] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://v4.nhlstream.net/nhl-streams/ NHL Stream Net] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://nhl66.ir NHL 66] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://onhockey.tv OnHockey] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://reddit.nhlbite.com/live5 NHLbite]
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
 ==News Streaming Sites==
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 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://123news.tv/fox-news-live-stream/ 123News] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://watchnewslive.tv/fox-news-live-stream-usa/ WatchNewsLive] || <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.bitchute.com/channel/nJ122UNW61Ga/ Tucker Archive]
 |}
+<div style="clear:both;"></div>
-<h3>Movie and Live Television Sites (Updated 2025)</h3>
+==Movie and Live Television Sites (Updated 2025)==
-<hr>
 These are shady websites that contain malware.  Use only with a version of firefox with the correct addons that will protect you from such shadiness.
 As you can see by the strike through texts, these links often go down because of copyright claims and other goodie-two-shoes shenanigans.  It is a good idea to check in on forums and other informational sites to see where the new sites and new mirrors are popping up.
-{|style="width: 70%;"
+{| style="width: 90%; font-size:100%;"
 |+
 |-
@@ Line 249: / Line 259: @@
 I grabbed some links from FMHY and added them [[FMHY Commits|here.]]
-<h3>Let The Government Help</h3>
+==Let The Government Help==
-<hr>
 Something pretty funny that I discovered is that the United States Government curates a list of "notorious websites" that they offer in a .pdf download.  This list gives you an updated set of websites that will allow you to get free content from the internet if you are savvy enough to skate around all the bullshit.  Below, you will find a recent copy:
 <center><pdf width="500" height="600">File:Notoriouscuratedlist.pdf</pdf></center>
-<h3>Documentary and History</h3>
+==Documentary and History==
 *<span class="plainlinks">[https://documentaryheaven.com/watch-online/ Documentary Heaven]</span>
-<h3>youtube Itself</h3>
+==youtube Itself==
-<hr>
+<div style="border-left: 4px solid #0066cc; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 15px; margin: 15px 0; font-style: italic;">
 {{Q|'''yup, youtube gained popularity by giving the little guy a voice. only to take away his voice, and give it right back to the media giants''' - Erotica putting it more adroitly than I could manage.}}
+</div>
 When something is dumb, crude, and cruel, it is usually referred to as a monster.  I am taking the side of many content providers.  Youtube is the monster.  When censorship, demonetization, and other random fuckery occurs, you know a media conglomerate is pulling strings to steer viewers away from content that they desire.  We see it in all other forms of social media,<ref>I really don't like to call Youtube "social media" these days, with how they control and direct their content.</ref> but when you consider how great Youtube started off, compared to what it is doing today,<ref>https://www.investopedia.com/google-s-incredible-youtube-purchase-15-years-later-5200225</ref> you know something dastardly is up.
@@ Line 268: / Line 278: @@
 '''Why?'''<ref>https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/18280900/why-is-this-garbage-showing-up-in-my-recommended-videos?hl=en</ref><ref>It's because GoogleYouTube has become a blatantly manipulative, insidious company that employs some very unscrupulous, devious, and downright toxic people. It's because they have an endless multi-tentacled agenda and not-so-ulterior but highly objectionable motives.</ref>
-<h3>My Conclusion</h3>
+==My Conclusion==
-<hr>
 [[File:skycorpPSA.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LehnGZDdXeo Meeting Your Online "Friend" - Internet Safety PSA]]]
 In a world full of streaming garbage,<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2022/04/20/elon-musk-dismisses-netflix-as-woke-and-unwatchable/?sh=5805d8f2611b</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRRtTIvZVY</ref> actual human beings make content on Youtube from time to time.  I try to make sure my links are to everyday people instead of those stupid reddit channels that have a computer generated voice just re-reading posts.  I also try to limit my viewing of "reaction" content because most of them are just disingenuous fuckos who act like they don't know who '''''Led Zeppelin''''' is or that '''''The Wizard of Oz''''' is a movie.
@@ Line 283: / Line 292: @@
 Now YouTube's basically a low-quality streaming service filled with ads and low-quality YouTubers who make the same reviews, bad gaming videos, and stuff just to make money. It's a shame that YouTube went from an original social network of fun videos to a safe haven for the richest 1%.<ref>https://www.thetoptens.com/youtube/ways-youtube-sucks-now/</ref>}}
-<h3>Suggested youtube Alternatives</h3>
+==Suggested youtube Alternatives==
-<hr>
 It's pretty crazy that when you use google or bing to find alternatives to youtube, they only briefly mention some good sites, but quickly resort to paid services, or compromised platforms.<ref>https://kinsta.com/blog/alternatives-to-youtube/</ref><ref>https://www.yumyumvideos.com/6-amazing-video-websites-that-arent-youtube-wp/</ref>
@@ Line 292: / Line 300: @@
 *[https://piped.video/trending Piped]
-===TikTok===
+==TikTok==
 youtube has decided to combat TikTok with it's own "shorts" videos.  Because TikTok is going to be banned soon, "shorts" will probably become incredibly popular.  However, there is [https://scoopzapp.com Scoopz,] that is not really polished just yet, but will probably go crazy in the next year or so.
-<h3>youtube Advertisements</h3>
+==youtube Advertisements==
-<hr>
 youtube ads have become crazy.  The platform loses money like drunk gambler, and they are desperate for ad revenue.  [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ Ublock Origin]<ref>https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-origin/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak</ref><ref>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1323364</ref><ref>https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?pli=1</ref><ref>Suck it apple users.</ref> will defeat most advertisements on youtube, but...
@@ Line 311: / Line 318: @@
 When you reload the page after you have followed the instructions, you should notice that the video loads normally again. No ads will play while watching it on YouTube.<ref>https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/03/youtube-showing-ads-with-ublock-origin-enabled-here-is-a-fix/</ref>
-<h3>youtube Throttles Firefox</h3>
+==youtube Throttles Firefox==
-<hr>
 {{Q|A Google spokesperson had this to say: We've launched a global effort to urge viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on youtube or try youtube Premium for an ad-free experience. Ads support a diverse ecosystem of creators globally and allow billions to access their favorite content on YouTube.<ref>https://www.zdnet.com/article/its-official-your-ad-free-youtube-glory-days-are-over/</ref>}}
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 To combat this issue, use <span class="plainlinks">[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/ User Agent Switcher.]</span>  However, be aware that firefox is pretty pozzed now.
-<h3>Download?</h3>
+==Download?==
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 *<span class="plainlinks">[https://yout.com Yout.com]</span>
 *<span class="plainlinks">[https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp yt-dlp]</span>
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 There are a bunch of other online websites that will do the job.  Usually you can just google them.
-<h3>Stuff I Have Been Told To Watch</h3>
+==Stuff I Have Been Told To Watch==
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 *Conagher
 *Landman
-<h3>References</h3>
+==References==
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 <span class="plainlinks"><references /></span>
-<h3>See Also</h3>
+==See Also==
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 *<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.quora.com/Why-does-YouTube-suck-so-horribly-now-and-is-there-a-replacement-website-that-you-use-instead Discussion on Youtube]</span>