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This would amount to doing free labor to prop up a trillion dollar company’s subpar product. Then again, YouTube is only barely profitable as-is right? And getting people to switch to a more sustainable paid alternative is a non-starter. So maybe this is the future we deserve

> free labor to prop up a trillion dollar company’s subpar product

This presumes you're doing the trillion dollar company a favor, but an independent index isn't likely to align with YT's engagement goals.

Nobody that would consider using such an index would be browsing YouTube without an ad blocker.

Free labour is how I was downloading YT videos to my unsupported Windows Phone device in 2011.

NewPipe search just works perfectly. I gave up searching anything on youtube.

Surely most search engines would have indexed most videos at this point?

You could run classifiers against the video but $$$