hooktube.com
It reminds me of what youtube used to look like a few years ago. Recent updates have made youtube so bloated TenFourFox struggles hopelessly to load pages on my 1.33 Ghz iBook. Only 512 MBs of ram don't help at all. ViewTube often doesn't even load. On the same machine hooktube works really nicely in TFF with QuickTime Enabler. The site will try to substitute the youtube player with the browser native html5 one, and since h264 playback is the default option you will be greeted by the "Install QuickTime Enabler" screen. At this point smooth playback in QT is only a right click away. If you want you can open webm in the browser, or click the download button and select one of the mp4 files to open it in CorePlayer (the file will be actually downloaded to your hd, but playback will start immediately as soon as the download starts).
WARNING! There is a problem. From the FAQ:
"Why did you make HT?
Dozens of reasons (see front page for main ones) but on a personal level, I can't use YouTube normally the way I've set up my browsers. I also have many friends in EU countries whose governments have blocked off large swathes of political and news YT content."
It turns out those EU countries had very good reasons to block at least some of that content. One of the links at the bottom of the page leads to a ton of neo-nazi propaganda videos. Be very wary of what you click on. hooktube by itself seems ok, but with no censorship some of the videos might have questionable content for most users.
It reminds me of what youtube used to look like a few years ago. Recent updates have made youtube so bloated TenFourFox struggles hopelessly to load pages on my 1.33 Ghz iBook. Only 512 MBs of ram don't help at all. ViewTube often doesn't even load. On the same machine hooktube works really nicely in TFF with QuickTime Enabler. The site will try to substitute the youtube player with the browser native html5 one, and since h264 playback is the default option you will be greeted by the "Install QuickTime Enabler" screen. At this point smooth playback in QT is only a right click away. If you want you can open webm in the browser, or click the download button and select one of the mp4 files to open it in CorePlayer (the file will be actually downloaded to your hd, but playback will start immediately as soon as the download starts).
WARNING! There is a problem. From the FAQ:
"Why did you make HT?
Dozens of reasons (see front page for main ones) but on a personal level, I can't use YouTube normally the way I've set up my browsers. I also have many friends in EU countries whose governments have blocked off large swathes of political and news YT content."
It turns out those EU countries had very good reasons to block at least some of that content. One of the links at the bottom of the page leads to a ton of neo-nazi propaganda videos. Be very wary of what you click on. hooktube by itself seems ok, but with no censorship some of the videos might have questionable content for most users.
