Finis' Experiments and Scribbles

[Finis]

Rumble's customer service and rules are worse than their video player. I can't believe it but I had the thought to go back to Vimeo. After being on Vimeo for a while I looked at the site's front page. That was all I needed to know I would leave. I thought I might drop to a free account, stay but not benefit them financially, but they changed the free accounts to worthless. I had the lowest paid tier and it was good. It is ... other reasons I left. So I looked for alternatives. There aren't any. YouTube is off limits forever. VidMe was good but not viable as a business so it's gone.

Rumble's business model is to be an agent that publishes your stuff on many venues. It isn't intended to be an alternative to YouTube. It's free tier is usable as a YouTube alternative if a bit primitive and often strange back stage. It offers 15gb per upload and you can upload unlimited videos. Customer service is barely acceptable or maybe not. There are too many things you can't do from rules or underdeveloped UI. Etc.

I'm not concerned with getting likes or earning money from videos. I have made twenty cents from Rumble ads. I do want an easy way for people I know to see my videos and it's good if others can enjoy them too. I'll take a usable free tier but I don't mind paying for a product.

Conclusion. After I upgrade my own website I'll put my videos there. That will be the place to see them. I'll also put them on my Rumble free account as an archive and alternate place to see them.

That was a useful rant. It helped me decide what to do.

[bitkar]

anything you can host yourself is a good way imo.

[Finis]

anything you can host yourself is a good way imo.

Indeed it is.

No more youtube?
Viewing videos is now a problem. Maybe I can no longer watch youtube. My stuff blocks nearly everything yt tries to do. The minimal things I allowed in order to watch, surprisingly, didn't do anything bad. At least I didn't catch them doing it. Now videos stop playing after one minute. It isn't pausing to catch up. It will never pass that point. Until today changing the location of my VPN would sometimes fix it.

The only workaround reported to work was disabling your security software or parts of it. Not happening. Some sources said embeds work. I'll try it for curiosity ... embed worked but too much trouble to watch videos.

UPDATE:
1. Interesting: video will play for only one minute no matter where it starts. I tried using the start time to skip the minute barrier but then it stopped at two minutes. Start at 5m13s, it stops at 6m13s.
2. Not VPN: Using VPN servers and protocols that look like normal web traffic (hide that it's a VPN) = no luck. Even connecting through TOR still plays only one minute.
3. When I update my website I'll make something so I can easily temporarily embed videos (until they break that too). That's for practical How-To things and a few youtubers.
4. Hopefully this not the way yt intended it to work and it will be fixed.
5. I'll be more productive in work and real world stuff without watching videos instead of doing something useful.

UPDATE 2:
Success!
This work-around works:
Go to the video. Click Share, click Embed, play the small video that appears in the Share screen. It will play without stopping. Quality and full screen settings are still available there.