The latest corpofascist coercion that I've discovered just today, that will hasten my abandoning YT, is that embedded videos are not playing within my mastodon desktop interface. Instead YT issues an error implying that the problem is on the fedi side—I'd be willing to bet that the problem is commerce & control related, not tech limitations (considering embedding YT videos worked here until recently). With all that in mind, see link in next post for a no narration sunrise video.
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@RMiddleton I've started hitting that one as well. And I've noticed some of their videos are broken into 5 second segments that yt-dlp can only download once every 5 seconds, so videos end up taking as long to download as the length of the video. Which just gives all the more incentive to repost the video elsewhere (or go elsewhere to begin with) so others can benefit from my work.
The thing I'm not going to do is log in or disable my ad blocker. If I can't see a video I just go elsewhere and take steps to ensure I stop seeing similar useless links.
In the event that this error is within Mastodon's control to correct could anyone forward it to the proper Mastodon maintainers? (I suspect this "error" is more likely an intentional result of YouTube enshittification but who knows!)
![Toot screenshot. Rob = Rartsy Humanist @RMiddleton@mastodon.art
youtube.com/watch?v=C3A7gdJxqSw
[in place of a video embed it's grey with a "!" error message:]
Watch video on YouTube [link]
(!) Error 153
Video player configuration error
[text below the failed embed:]
YouTube
No Sound But Nature • sunrise 1102
By human is some](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonart/media_attachments/files/115/480/266/035/969/958/original/404210a6473da852.png)
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