What You Tube Channels Do You Subscribe To?

As I have mentioned before, but feel it bears repeating, I added on to my Firefox browser the free "Easy Youtube Video Downloader" extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-download/

It creates a green "Download" button beneath every video you visit. You can then download any video to your PC (then to a thumb drive to watch on your TV via a USB drive on your DVD player or what-not) to watch at your leisure, away from your PC, add-free (without commercial interruptions).

I have saved hundreds of videos (such as music concerts and records LPs/songs, documentaries, etc) for some years now.

I really like the sound of this...being able to watch ad-free and to save for later viewing on TV. But I wonder what are the potential consequences, given this (from the Techradar site):

Is downloading YouTube videos legal?
Before you use a free YouTube downloader, bear in mind that using third-party apps to download videos is against YouTube's terms of service, which say you can only stream videos directly from its servers. Downloading videos is also a potential copyright infringement unless you own the video yourself, have permission from the copyright holder, or it's in the public domain.
 
Steve Lehto (Lehto’s Law)
Itchy Boots
Matt’s Off Road Recovery
Wranglerstar
Linux Tech Tips
TFL
Military Weapons Channel
Forgotten Weapons
...and many more!
 
I did not know that Paul Marik had his own channel. I have listed to him on Dr. Been's show, and flipped over to read his protocol a few times.
Dr. Marik doesn't have much on there, as you probably noticed. But apparently Dr. Mobeen was a moderator on a multi-guest panel of doctors presentation. It wasn't 'live', but it's to be posted soon on Marik's channel.
 
Dr. Marik doesn't have much on there, as you probably noticed. But apparently Dr. Mobeen was a moderator on a multi-guest panel of doctors presentation. It wasn't 'live', but it's to be posted soon on Marik's channel.

I will have to keep my eye open for it. I heard Dr. Mobeen mentioning it coming.
 
Unfortunately I didn't inherit my dear mother's green thumb, but I read a great article in yesterday's Washington Post about how the BBC's Gardener's World with Monty Don became must watch TV during the pandemic last year, as balm to those coping through the pandemic lockdown. The new season has just started and I watched the first episode on Gardener's World You Tube channel yesterday. It makes me want to go dig in the dirt and plant something. Needless to say I subscribed.
 
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YouTube is easily 90-95% of what I watch on TV. I currently subscribe to 76 channels. Main topics are woodworking, DIY, music, cooking, travel, history, linguistics, and science.

A few favorites:

Life Uncontained
Langfocus
frank howarth
BazBattles
DIYfferent
Andrew Camarata
Scary Pockets
CGP Grey
 
As I have mentioned before, but feel it bears repeating, I added on to my Firefox browser the free "Easy Youtube Video Downloader" extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-download/

It creates a green "Download" button beneath every video you visit. You can then download any video to your PC (then to a thumb drive to watch on your TV via a USB drive on your DVD player or what-not) to watch at your leisure, away from your PC, add-free (without commercial interruptions).

I have saved hundreds of videos (such as music concerts and records LPs/songs, documentaries, etc) for some years now.

I use 4K Video Downloader. It's a standalone program, not tied to any specific browser. Just copy the link and add it to the program list. It also works with a variety of different web sites.

I find it much more convenient to download the videos so I can watch them on my living room TV using my Zidoo Z9X media player.

I'm not sure why y'all are going to all that trouble. You don't need to download videos to watch on your TV. Just install the YouTube app on your TV streaming box. IMO, this is WAY simpler, faster, better. The ads are very short and help compensate the content creators, which I totally support.
 
I found this thread very interesting. I was expecting people to have more subscriptions in common. Only Music Lover and seem to have some overlap....

Essential Craftsman: Has a lot of home building (and other) stuff. However, if you go into the Playlists there is one for "Spec House Series" where he is building a house from scratch in Oregon. Over 100+ episodes starting from soil samples all the way to currently hanging drywall. I would call it a "This Old House" for regular people with a lot more details. To some degree, it is a General Contractor course.

Good one. Lots of informative information.
 
Like others, I've fixed lots of stuff thanks to YouTube. Our dishwasher several times, washing machine and learned how to use a paint gun, how to stucco a wall and lots of computer updating videos.


YouTuber's I regularly watch:

Jay Leno's garage -Cars

Timcast IRL - Politics

Doug DeMuro - Cars

Pat McAfee - Sports

The Hill - Politics

FlemLo Raps - Sports

Elise Trouw - Music

Mark Rober - Science

Don't Walk, Run! - Politics

Donut Media - Cars

TheReportOfTheWeek - Fast food reviews
 
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I'm not sure why y'all are going to all that trouble. You don't need to download videos to watch on your TV. Just install the YouTube app on your TV streaming box.

There are numerous benefits to downloading. For one, I can watch videos from multiple sources (over-the-air broadcast TV recordings, youtube downloads, home videos, etc.) in one location. I don't have to switch to different apps to watch different shows.

I can also save only the videos I'm interested in watching later without having to navigate through the various channels and trying to find the video I wanted to see.

If I find a great how-to video, I can be assured it will be available when I need it, even if YouTube or other sources take it offline (or if the internet is down).

I can also rename videos so they make sense to me, rather than some click-bait title from the original video.
 
There are numerous benefits to downloading. For one, I can watch videos from multiple sources (over-the-air broadcast TV recordings, youtube downloads, home videos, etc.) in one location. I don't have to switch to different apps to watch different shows.

I can also save only the videos I'm interested in watching later without having to navigate through the various channels and trying to find the video I wanted to see.

If I find a great how-to video, I can be assured it will be available when I need it, even if YouTube or other sources take it offline (or if the internet is down).

I can also rename videos so they make sense to me, rather than some click-bait title from the original video.

Suit yourself. To me, that all sounds like a solution in search of a problem. Switching apps takes 1-2 seconds. YouTube has a "Save to Watch Later" function.

I messed around with media players 10-15 years ago. I was big into WMC and Kodi, all running on a dedicated HTPC connected to the TV with massive storage capacity. I had several hundred movies, complete TV shows, music, photos, home videos, the works. It was all rather pointless. We rarely watched any of it. It was old content. In reality, it was just kind of a hobby to collect it all and make it work.

Then, with the advent of streaming boxes and streaming services, all that became completely obsolete IMHO. Everything we want is at our fingertips on Fire TV, including photos from our phones almost instantly. It's all incredibly simple to use and navigate, especially YouTube. We discover new and interesting content every day. The hardware is dirt cheap and upgraded continually.
 
A short list of favorites:

Veritasium - likeable physics guy explains phenomena is lay terms
Vsauce - quirky guy, kind of math and physics oriented but interesting too
Fermilab - mostly about particles and cosmology and such
PBS Space Time - fundamental new and recent science, astronomy and cosmology
SmarterEveryDay - scientific explanations of interesting phenomena, etc.

Topi the Corgi - a cute Corgi does funny things, often in costume
Laurel and Hardy
Mr. Bean

My favorite - How to make a killing in stocks with no risk
Caveat - I cannot find this youtube channel but I am sure it exists
 
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Suit yourself. To me, that all sounds like a solution in search of a problem. Switching apps takes 1-2 seconds. YouTube has a "Save to Watch Later" function.

I messed around with media players 10-15 years ago. I was big into WMC and Kodi, all running on a dedicated HTPC connected to the TV with massive storage capacity. I had several hundred movies, complete TV shows, music, photos, home videos, the works. It was all rather pointless. We rarely watched any of it. It was old content.

It obviously isn't for everyone and if your system works for you great.

For me it's about consolidating numerous video sources into one location that I can access easily. As I mentioned, I record TV shows over-the-air with a TV tuner card. I download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, individual web sites, etc. I create my own home videos (that I actually watch regularly, and post some to YouTube myself). And I have video's I've ripped from DVD's, BluRays, and even digitized some old VHS tapes. The vast majority of my video library is new content I haven't seen before.

I use a network media player (currently a Zidoo Z9X) that lets me watch my content directly. There's no HTPC to maintain, no media player software to install, etc.

All of my video content is saved on my computer hard drive where I can back it up regularly.

I can watch any of my content on our living room TV, on my computer, or even from my mobile devices.

For me the benefits far outweigh any negatives. I do have a Netflix account, but I have so much to watch in my own video library that I rarely have time to visit Netflix. I also have a Roku but can't remember the last time I even turned it on.
 
Too numerous to mention. Not only is having access to the internet like having a library at your fingertips, but having You Tube is like having all libraries available to you. There is no end to what one can learn on You Tube. People share their life's work, their hobbies, their passions, all their knowledge and insights. There are videos on how to do this or that and anything you can think of. As a person who loves to learn and who is extremely curious, it's right up my alley.
 
Too numerous to mention. Not only is having access to the internet like having a library at your fingertips, but having You Tube is like having all libraries available to you. There is no end to what one can learn on You Tube. People share their life's work, their hobbies, their passions, all their knowledge and insights. There are videos on how to do this or that and anything you can think of. As a person who loves to learn and who is extremely curious, it's right up my alley.

All true. It makes me nervous that it will soon not be free even at the basic level.
 
Home Renovision - home maintenance and repair
ExcelIsFun - excel tutorials
RJ The Bike Guy - bicycle maintenance and repair
Techgumbo - technology
Project Farm - tool comparison testing and ratings
South Main Auto Repair - auto repair and diagnosis
Holy Schmidt! - retirement and finance
Strictly Dumpling - asian food blogger
Kevin Stratvert - technology
Nanaba's Kitchen - cooking
Spice N Pans - cooking
Word of Advice TV - HVAC repair and maintenance
 
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Two Youtube subscriptions we watch

Chinese Cooking Demystified
Like it says. An American ex-pat and his Chinese wife show you how people cook dinner in China. Sometimes they rely on ingredients in his home in Shenzhen, sometimes it's food you can get from any US supermarket.

Steve1989MREInfo
It's hard to explain why watching a guy prepare and eat MREs can be fascinating. A lot of it is his reactions to decades old military rations, whether it's tinned meat that's probably not even safe to stick your nose in, or century old biscuits that are surprisingly edible. Contemporary MREs from around the world are also interesting.
 
During the early days of the lockdown last year, I subscribed to a good number of cooking channels. Here are the few:

Guga Foods
Sous Vide Everything
The Hungry Hussey
The Waltwins
Pitmaster X
The Gallery Backyard bbq
Cowboy Kent Rollins
Salty Tales
Ballistic BBQ
Ballistic Burgers
Todd Toven
Blackstone
...

And a few RV related channels as well.

They’re all pretty entertaining and the DW and I watch one or two every morning after walking the dogs and jogging/running while drinking our protein shakes.
 
I started watching a home distilling channel. Fascinating.

“That sounds like fun”

Then I realized it’s totally illegal here in the US. Oh well.


Hah! I had an interesting conversation with my BIL's wife a few years back. She is from N Carolina, and mentioned that her Uncle makes moonshine. I said, "Cool, but it's totally illegal, even to own the equipment". She insisted it was legal if you didn't sell it, or didn't make over 200 gallons/year (that's the beer/wine limit per household/adult). I said, no, if you try to sell it you are in even bigger trouble, but totally illegal to distill spirits, period.

The minute we got home and on WiFi (before mobile data was common), I see her google it, and she never said a word after that!


-ERD50
 
I mostly watch stuff that is related to DIY or generally to learn more about some topic whether that is travel, history, technology, animals, etc. Many of which have already been mentioned.
A couple of channels not mentioned that are kind of genius in how they use their youtube channel to get paid twice for the same job:

1) Perkins Builder Brothers - they are a custom home builder in the mountains of NC. So nice locations for most of their builds. They setup up their iPhone and often wear a GoPro and then at the end of the day (or week) the older brother edits and posts a new day of building the house to youtube. If you follow along you see how it progresses day-by-day. So they get paid by the home owner and youtube for the same job.

1b) RayJay Builder Buddies - Even more clever(?) is that two of the guys on the Perkins Bro crew started their own channel, giving a little different perspective and including their honey-do projects. Not a channel to watch on its own, I am just surprised to see a channel within a channel.

2) Scotty Kilmer - He is a semi-retired auto mechanic, who fixes peoples cars in his driveway and uses the project as a spring board to make a video and make more general comments. The episode titles are bit misnamed...even he admits they are a bit like clickbait, but he has a good sense of humor and can be entertaining as well as informative. If you can find the right episode that is related to your vehicle it can be worthwhile.
 
My Science, Tech List


Tech Ingredients
Cody'sLab
EEVblog
AvE
NightHawkInLight
Technology Connections
TheBackyardScientist
Build Something Cool
Applied Science
Fran Blanche
Eric Goodchild


A young lady having an adventure living in a Van.
Alexandria Tejas


Talented Musician, more enjoyable videos before Covid shutdown.
DØVYDAS


Poker- Texas Hold’em
PokerStars

I watch a lot of those:


Tech Ingredients - Very interesting, but I still haven't figured this guy out. I get the sense he is a brilliant, mostly self-taught engineer/scientist. Not sure why, just a vibe I get that he may not be degreed and credentialed, I've never seen a bio from him.

EEVblog - He's great, but I cannot take that high pitched, excited tone in his Aussie accented voice!

AvE - I don't do much machining, but I still find his videos interesting, and a great dry sense of humor.


Technology Connections - I love the in depth views into little quirky aspects of technology. He's also raised his production standards and throws in some pretty wry humor as well.

Fran Blanche - Hello. It's Fran, (in the lab!). Very quirky mix of musical electronic stuff (she had a company building effects pedals for guitar) and a whole range of electronic tech (display technology, space-race era stuff, etc).

I'll have to check out some of your others.

-ERD50
 
Bald and Bankrupt
Harold Balder
Shiey
Nomad Capitalist
Sailing Doodles
Tweekerville
Villages Newcomers
Notime2bsad
 
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