On: How to make (almost) anything (2020)

[DoingIsLearning]

All the videos linked in the class show me a message "video is not rated", saying I am unable to watch?

[johndough → DoingIsLearning]

Workaround: Downloading with yt-dlp gets around the age block (also works for YouTube). https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

[ksdnjweusdnkl21 → DoingIsLearning]

I wonder how one should host their educational videos to have them be available without ads or other nonsense like this. Any affordable solutions?

[kleer001 → ksdnjweusdnkl21]

> without ads

and

> affordable

I think lots of smart people with lots of energy have spent lots of time trying to solve this problem with respect to getting customers and keeping them. It's a hard hard problem. Subscription supporting the free-with-ads IMHO seems to be the sweet spot.

[kragen → ksdnjweusdnkl21]

PeerTube seems to work okay? More generally internet bandwidth is a lot cheaper now than it was 15 years ago.

[jonas_kgomo → DoingIsLearning]

you need to login into Vimeo, then you can watch

[DoingIsLearning → jonas_kgomo]

I would much rather not engage with the platform out of principle.

If I want to watch a makers video, why should I have to give information/identification, due to some idiotic monitoring scheme camouflaged as 'think of the children' regulation?

You will probably dismiss this as tin foil but it is exactly this inch by inch giving in that has put us all in this walled garden situation that you have on most of the internet at the moment.

[lupire → DoingIsLearning]

What do you mean?

[DoingIsLearning → lupire]

As in the video is not porn/violence rated and I am too anonymous for Vimeo to know if I am an inocent unsupervised child on the internet.