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Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (www.jeffgeerling.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"this morning, as I was finishing up work on a video about a new mini Pi cluster, I got a cheerful email from YouTube saying my video on LibreELEC on the Pi 5 was removed because it promoted:

Dangerous or Harmful Content Content that describes how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content, software, subscription services, or games that usually require payment isn't allowed on YouTube.

I never described any of that stuff, only how to self-host your own media library.

This wasn't my first rodeo—in October last year, I got a strike for showing people how to install Jellyfin!

In that case, I was happy to see my appeal granted within an hour of the strike being placed on the channel. (Nevermind the fact the video had been live for over two years at that point, with nary a problem!)

So I thought, this case will be similar:

  • The video's been up for over a year, without issue
  • The video's had over half a million views
  • The video doesn't promote or highlight any tools used to circumvent copyright, get around paid subscriptions, or reproduce any content illegally

Slam-dunk, right? Well, not according to whomever reviewed my appeal. Apparently self-hosted open source media library management is harmful.

Who knew open source software could be so subversive?"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I use pinchflat and TubeArchivist to fetch content from YouTube.

While TubeArchivist is great on it's own when you fetch individual videos or channels that have their content organized in playlists, it has only a web UI which is OK on phone, but unusable on TV.

There is an add-on to synchronize TubeArchivist and jellyfin, but it doesn't translate too well between how TA and JF organize their data.

I use Pinchflat exclusively to download channels whose content's order does not necessarily matter. It nicely provides all the metadata to JF and even integrates sponsorblock as chapters into JF.

I have each of these services running as a docker container.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you very much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

You're most welcome