Odysee no longer auto-syncing with YouTube

[MLXXXp]

It seems that, due to anti-competitive measures implemented by YouTube, Odysee is no longer able to automatically sync with content published on YouTube. Odysee is requesting that content be uploaded manually.
https://odysee.com/@Odysee:8/pleaseuploadcontentmanually:8

The last videos on Odysee from both EEVblog and EEVblog2 were published on December 17, 2024

Has @EEVblog decided to abandon publishing on Odysee because of this?

[EEVblog]

Has @EEVblog decided to abandon publishing on Odysee because of this?

No, I just have to remember to do it manually now which sucks.
My channel was one of the few that was priveledged to still auto-syncing after the anouncement, but it recently stopped working altogether.

[golden_labels]

I don’t know, what are the actual reasons behind Odysee’s problems. But people kept in the dark show tendency to make guesses, so I feel entitled to express one.

For some time unauthorized methods of accessing YouTube face trouble and in the past months this became a true arms race. It even left the digital arena: now you need a constant flow of clean mobile phone numbers. This is a major nuisance to teams of volunteers or small companies. So my guess is that Odysee is now climbing this baricade.

At that scale they may also need to buy captcha solvers to reduce the rate of account deletions. They come in cheap packs, so it’s not a financial burden compared to hosting videos. But it isn’t a trivial issue for a company with proper bookkeeping.

[johnsonlam]

I guess YouTube is actively changing way to stop the syncing, which help promoting Odysee, when I got video that will likely blocked I'll upload to Odysee manually.

[golden_labels]

I guess YouTube is actively changing way to stop the syncing, which help promoting Odysee, when I got video that will likely blocked I'll upload to Odysee manually.

Maybe Odysee and other services are convenient collaterals, but I doubt it’s the primary target of Alphabet’s actions.

Intellectual property groups are pressing to provide absolute and precise control over the content put on YouTube. In the past Alphabet rationally balanced costs of the defense and the benefits it brings, playing a lazy and lenient whack-a-mole with unauthorized use. But facing the threat from the IP crowd and governments backing them, Goofle has little choice but to ramp up the effort to make videos accessible only through authorized clients.

Most unauthorized clients are also shielding users from Alphabet being able to spy on them. Which directly hurts Alphabet’s core business. In the past that was a marginal group, mostly user-driven. But financially motivated actors boarded the ship, inflating the numbers. 0.01% may be something not worth fighting against. 1% may already concern the management. Even if not causing a huge loss, it’s easier to thwart the tendency now, while it’s a voiceless minority. It’s going to be much harder, when a bigger number of people gets used to the concept of having freedom.

Finally, while smortnet moguls are happy to suck data from everybody on expense of other services, they themselves are facing a similar problem. Just like Meta leeched 82 TB from torrent seeders to train their models, other companies are downloading content from them en masse with a similar purpose.