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Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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319 points modmodmod | 2 comments | 15 Mar 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.436s | source
1. tangotaylor ◴[15 Mar 25 18:32 UTC] No.43374337[source]▶
This is awesome and it's one of the countermeasures that the book Chokepoint Capitalism proposed against enshittification.

Imagine seeing Twitch, Nebula, Youtube, etc all in one aggregator app, then the switching cost of leaving one platform to another goes way down. If a content creator wanted to move from one platform to another to get a better deal, the users would hardly notice.

Unfortunately I think DRM + DMCA makes this illegal, e.g. removing DRM from a Netflix stream to use a third-party app is illegal even if there is no copyright infringement. This needs to be fixed.

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2. pests ◴[15 Mar 25 18:51 UTC] No.43374437[source]▶
This already kinda exists in the TV sticks like Google TV in that all recently watched / continue watching is a mix of different services that open the correct app when launched. Also has the "Live" tab which shows a combined TV guide of all app's that share it (pluto, tubi, prime, etc)

Of course this still locks you into the end app for playback but the concepts are there.