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I'm seriously considering just setting up a service that downloads everything in my preferred channels overnight and re-serves it locally. It'll increase their cost and decrease their revenue but frankly I'm just getting fed up with their UX. It's just sooo fuckin bad I do wonder whether YT staff actually uses it.

e.g. lately the thumbnails have a popup overlay that pops into existence at last second over the thumbnail, basically hijacks your click and navigates you away from yt and to a support.google.com page that discusses paid product placement. No google thats not why I clicked on a video thumbnail.

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How do you filter out what you actually want?

There are no tools to sort through subscriptions that I know of. I am subscribed to some channels that put out tons of contents where I usually don't want to watch it, but the stuff that I do want to watch is high priority, channels where everything is priority, and channels where it's content I just want to watch occasionally when it happens to show up and I'm in the mood.

I learned long ago that anything I want to watch more than once should be saved locally when a record label made a group I liked delete all their content to promote a new album, but I need a solution for filtering the one time views.

>How do you filter out what you actually want?

I wouldn't. Bulk download it all and decide locally.

Not something I'd usually do because it is wasteful and not being a good net citizen but sufficiently annoyed that I'm willing to colour outside the lines here.

I previously used FreshRSS to follow youtube channels I was interested, but I've switched to Tube Archivist[1] + the Jellyfin Plugin [2]. Now my youtube channels are automatically downloaded to my server and I can watch them through Jellyfin, like any other show. I never have to deal with YouTube's terrible UX anymore.

  [1] https://www.tubearchivist.com/
  [2] https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-jf-plugin

Sounds absolutely goated.

yt-dl, chron, and onedrive or icloud together achieve this

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