For one, even if I wanted to use it, piped never works for me.
Second, on mobile, my alternative of choice doesn’t recognize everyone’s non-yt links, so it removes my choice in the matter.
Third, I have no reason to trust the weird-ass domains I see, and to un-fuck the url takes much more time then just handing out the original YT links and letting people choose for themselves how they view the video.
Ok so this is the weird thing: Piped works; it’s just that links to the video directly don’t.
I can go to the main site and find the video and play it fine, but if I click a link directly to the video from Lemmy, it never loads.
I’m not sure this is really an unpopular opinion. Controversial? Yes. Unpopular? Probably not.
In a lot of places people link unusual frontends, you’ll see at least 1 or 2 people chastising them for it.
That aside, I agree.
Agree totally. Any YT link can be turned easily into an alternate frontend link, so leave it up to the clients to rewrite those. The now-defunct Tesseract Lemmy UI did that and let you select your own Piped/Invidious frontend.
I’m with you 100%.
I would also argue we should use a shorter version like: https://youtu.be/Co_tVd9gA2I
Instead of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co_tVd9gA2I
Why? Just because it’s shorter?
Yeah
Dammit, I was expecting a Rick roll.
Hahah, I just linked the video I had open (and find very insightful).
Is it a Rick Roll if you expect it?
The second, longer URL doesn’t bother me.
But the tracking parameter usually found after? Can’t stand it. Manually remove it every time.
Should I be replying to everyone with a “link with tracking removed”? :-/ Or maybe see if the Piped bot could offer the service.
Most people post YouTube links, which are replaced by bots to privacy respecting front end.
This is because the mods understand YouTube is a blood sucking vampire.
I think these bots clutter the threads. I wish there was a cleaner method.
Automatic footnotes would be great. Toggleable but enabled by default.
Could expand it to tons of services: https://farside.link
It’s fine to have frontend bots. I post youtube links and let people decide where they want to watch it. For me I click on the YouTube link but it opens up in libretube, which uses youtube piped frontends.
Y’know I downvoted you at first, but fuck it, you’re right
I downvoted because I completely agree with them. The point of unpopular opinion is to see opinions that are unpopular, no?
Fuck, forgot where I was
Wouldn’t that mean it’s a popular opinion and the downvote was warranted?
fourth, if i share a video URL it’s likely a creator who i like and support and depriving them of their ad revenue might not be what i want
Interesting, I’ve seen Piped/Invidious given as the only link… twice I think. Perhaps you’re in privacy-oriented communities more than me.
I do post a tracking-parameter-free YT URL + “(Piped mirror)” when I share :)