2026-11-05 15:14 UTC
Replies (7)
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@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2026-11-05 15:22
It only takes a couple of times to realize how quickly something you care about can be taken away and you’ll never see/hear it again. Netflix brought on such convenience. I remember I watched Scrubs front to back multiple times, until one day I was told that it was leaving and suddenly I couldn’t watch it anymore. Youtubers and creators come and go, if there is something you care about it’s on you to preserve it. No one else will. I wish there was a legal way for me to create a “backup” version for others to watch like a PeerTube instance, but to creators they would see it as not fair to them, so unfortunately my collection remains private.
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@stoy@lemmy.zip 2026-11-05 16:24
I hope, really hope I can find a deal on two 8TB nas drives for my home server on black friday so I can finally bring it online after a yearof waiting for better perices…
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@LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub 2026-11-05 19:39
In the past years I have downloaded and archived about 200 GB of my favorite YouTube videos using yt-dlp. Most of them are short or low resolution for storage reasons, so it’s a lot more videos than you’d think. Now they can’t be taken away from me and I can watch them whenever I want.
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@DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 21:01
STACHER7 FOR YT-DLP yt-dlp is the gold standard for ripping YouTube vids (as well as vids/music from damn near anywhere else). However, yt-dlp is not particularly user friendly, like, at all. There is a GUI wrapper called Stacher7 that makes it a whole lot easier to use. It’s one of the better things I’ve installed on my computer.
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@smoothspoon@feddit.online 2026-11-05 16:26
It’s funny that this post comes up in my feed, given I’ve been spending weeks customizing yt-dlp for my use case.
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@oce@jlai.lu 2026-11-05 15:37
In particular, if it is a niche where you are a specialist, so you can judge the importance, and you know the general public does not know much about it. Those are most likely to become lost forever if your saved link fails you one day.
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@unglueclass23@programming.dev 2026-11-05 16:47
Yt-dlp is great! I used it it to download podcasts from Youtube so I could listen on my phone. Only later I discovered I can download straight through Pipepipe(youtube client). I actually even used it shortly for regular videos as well to watch them through VLC just so at the end of the day I wouldn’t get hooked on youtube shorts and the rest of the nonsense on the front page. Yt-dlp also works for most social media sites. X, Tiktok, etc… Not sure about the value of downloading videos for the sake of storing them (after you’ve watched them) tho. I rarely rewatch videos.