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Self-hosting your own media considered harmful

2bluesc

created: June 6, 2025, 9:57 p.m. | updated: June 6, 2025, 10:53 p.m.

I purposefully avoid demonstrating any of the tools (with a suffix that rhymes with "car") that are popularly used to circumvent purchasing movie, TV, and other media content, or any tools that automatically slurp up YouTube content. Streaming services used to be a panacea but are now fragmented and mostly full of garbage—and lots of ads. I never described any of that stuff, only how to self-host your own media library. Update (one day later): YouTube has just reinstated the video, after what I presume is a human review process. Apparently self-hosted open source media library management is harmful.

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