Edit: I now know that this banner is not an ad for Odysee's premium subscriptions as it may seem to be. Memberships are separate to Premium entirely. Memberships are like the "Join" button you find on YouTube, where you pay a donation to that specific content creator and may get bonuses such as a badge next to your name in the comments, early access to videos, etc. depending on what benefits the creator chose themselves. Odysee only gets a 5% cut from this. This is completely justified as being the only thing that is arguably an ad on the site, as it is purely there to help creators thrive on the platform, and it can also be hidden permanently by clicking the X at the top-right of the banner; so they aren't even being forceful about it either. The ads being removed were mainly referring to the pop-up ads that third-parties could place on the website.
DreitonLullaby
ngl you should 😂
I don't know if PeerTube has the option, but with Odysee, there's an option to automatically sync your existing YouTube channel with Odysee. It will bring over the video, the description, and will be uploaded in full quality; the comment section will be separate though, so the comments on Odysee are by Odysee users themselves.
Odysee was owned by LBRY before the LBRY company was dissolved. They were founded by the same team of people who created the LBRY company, and the LBRY network/protocol (the decentralised part), but are not themselves the same company. So the LBRY company going away was never going to dissolve Odysee also, which is why they still exist today. LBRY (the company) dissolving did not affect the content on Odysee because the LBRY network/protocol itself is open-source and decentralised; and LBRY being sued and dying does not somehow make the LBRY network/protocol illegal for Odysee (or anyone) to use. If Odysee had gone away, anyone else could have jumped in and made a new replacement frontend for the LBRY network/protocol (Odysee is a frontend for LBRY, after all).
About a month ago, Odysee announced that they would be moving away from the LBRY network over to the Arweave network. Now, I'm not sure when they are going to do this, but it appears that at the minute they are still using the LBRY network/protocol for content uploads. The reason I think they are still using LBRY at this very minute, is that when I uploaded a video to my Odysee channel yesterday, I noticed in my personal uploads page that it was still using the lbry:// at the beginning of it's address on the network.
What bloat? And Spyware...?
The only trackers they use are onetrust geolocation cookie, which determines the country and state/city, but not exact location, based on your IP address. Than there's googletagmanager, which I agree they should remove just for being Google.
Calling them spyware for the tiny speck of data-collection they do is petty, when you're completely ignoring the things that prove they specifically care about privacy. For one, you can sign up completely anonymously; secondly, you can comment and post videos under the name "Anonymous"; thirdly, according to their Privacy Policy:
Third-party disclosure: We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential...
Fourth: they are the only website I've ever known of to actually respect the "Do Not Track" setting that you can explicitly toggle in your browser settings. There is no standard way of managing "Do Not Track" signals in the industry, so 99% of websites have no systems in place to stop themselves collecting your data when this browser setting is enabled.
There's some tracking they were doing prior to their ads removal a few days ago in regards to what ads you were clicking on. But everything related to ads will likely be removed from the policy very soon, as the policy was last updated in 2021 when they were still serving ads. Example:
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Odysee is not spyware, and nor is it bloated. Even if you could argue it has some amount of bloat (which is usually subjective, so you probably can); it still wouldn't be anywhere near the 50x more bloat that YouTube, the very thing they are trying to be an alternative to, have themselves.
Exactly. Another awesome thing the extension provides is the ability to migrate all your YouTube subscriptions over to Odysee. You also have two options with the Watch on Odysee extension. You can 1: Make YouTube links immediately redirect to Odysee (default option), or 2: Have a "Watch on Odysee" button appear to the left of the subscribe button on every YouTube video that also exists on Odysee (Example screenshot). Choosing the latter option means you don't need to disable the extension every time you want to comment on a YouTube video.
Another thing people keep doing is acting like Odysee is a free speech absolutist platform, in that they allow you to say and post absolutely anything. This is not true, because they have community guidelines which do not allow hate speech and promotion of violence (two examples). It's just less strict and more fair in it's moderation practices than YouTube.
Some Links: Firefox extension (can't find it for Chrome, for some reason); Community Guidelines
Edit: If you want the extension on Chrome, you can get it directly from GitHub. You may need to view a guide if you don't know how to install extensions manually.
Thanks for all your suggestions mate. I'm going to favourite your comment so I can come back to it at some point to remind myself to look into them.
Edit: Hold on, why did you delete your comment that I replied "Good on you" to? I can't remember what it said now. All I know about it is that you said you pay for Mullvad VPN with Monero, and that that it had an adblocker.
Thanks for recommending the playlist to me. I watched the first segment of the Tears of the Kingdom video and I can relate so much to the feelings he was referring to. I can relate further, because when I played Tears of the Kingdom last year, I actually found myself feeling those things in that exact part of the Temple of Time that he found so interesting. He's right when he says that there's an audience of players who love these random out of the way places. He even had the same experience as me in that he explored this area of the Temple of Time prior to getting the Ascend ability (which makes climbing that building so much easier). The only difference is that I didn't build a bridge to initially get up there; I found a diagonally-growing tree at the back of the whole temple to climb up (I only know the detail about the tree because I checked my own gameplay video, lol)
I'm gonna go check out more of the video's in that playlist now 😄
That's crazy! Thanks for nearly showing him to me. You'll understand why it's so crazy if you read my reply to algorithmae which explains how it's such a coincidence they even recommended that channel to begin with.
No way, you did not just link that channel! You have no idea how insanely massive of a coincidence that is! I'm the one who made the original post on asklemmy. I had no idea the guy in this channel made a series like this, and something he said randomly in a video is the very reason I wrote this post.
I'd never heard of this guy until I was watching his video a couple days ago, where he was trying to figure out where all the rivers in Breath of the Wild come from. While I was watching it, I was semi-consciously thinking to myself how much I love just chilling next to certain parts of the rivers in Breath of the Wild, because of the very feeling it gives me. At [some random point in the video](https://youtu.be/gcS1HIci4hQ?si=hDh9WwBnhoTNcooy&t=1382 (timestamped), he suddenly said something that felt out of nowhere to me. He suddenly said about these two small caves, "Telta Lake and Lake Siela in Breath of the Wild, where just two, unremarkable and odd little spots, where you could go stand to feel strange feelings for no reason.". As soon as he said that, I was absolutely ecstatic that it appeared that he was referring to the feeling that I've been wondering to myself about for my whole life. If he said it about any other location in the game, I may not have clicked and written my post at all.
The reason Telta Lake (the one of the two with the tree) was important, is because of another coincidence. This location is the exact location as where I have another fond memory, watching Nintendo Treehouse Live during E3 2016. I was 14, watching them showcase the gameplay of the game on YouTube. This was the first time I saw them show gameplay outside of the starting area of the game, the Great Plateau. For context, everyone in 2016 hyped for the release of the game were highly anticipating and excited to see what the world and gameplay would look like outside of the Great Plateau, including myself. I can't find the exact Nintendo video, but whoever was playing the game, stood behind the large tree, and it made me feel that super nice feeling and seriously inspired me ever more to get the game and just "live in it". From that moment forward, I've loved that little spot in the game ever since. Turns out I subscribed to him a few days ago when I was watching the video about the rivers. Sorry for the long comment.
I mean, my brother has ADHD, so...
But honestly though, I don't see why this would be it. I really don't think I have ADHD.
I'm the one who made the post btw.
Thanks. It was probably because you said you used a cryptocurrency, and "You use crypto; crypto bad". I got a down-vote too, probably for the same reason of saying I wanted to pay with Monero.