YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs | Hacker News
Stop uploading content to YouTube - there are other hosts
Sure. You could upload it to peer-tube, and have it be seen by a whole 11 people!
There was a time Youtube videos would only be seen by 11 people. But it grew because people posted videos anyway.
In this case, you could upload it to YouTube where it will be taken down and seen by a whole no people
Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.
What's wrong with that?
That would be great for those 11 people.
Hey man, the playing-pinball-while-a-cat-interferes peertube community is very close-knit (https://video.apz.fi/).
I kid, but it's true that peertube lacks the dopamine hooks and variety that youtube does. It's much harder to sink hours into watching a bunch of videos that you'll only half remember by the next day.
Why not both, it's not like The Internet Police will stop you.
A little ironic that this comment posted on Lemmy (tiny competitor to reddit)
Viewers go where the content is, yes, but you don't get content on alternative sites if you don't post there.
YouTube in the old days was awesome. Then Google happened to it. When it first started it was quite small.
Principles matter!
Better yet, this would be much better and easier to host as written instructions.
The noose keeps tightening.
Google also has been trying to argue that modifying client side javascript is equivalent to hacking.
Modifying code running on your own fucking machine, in your own fucking browser.
They just can't admit that they're using ai for the server side scripting, seeing how it doesn't work out.
Do you even have a general computing license, citizen? Have you even been through the vetting process?
Well, they can take my plugins and Tampermonkey when they pry it from my cold, dead, hands.
They are fine with this trade
It's almost like all of the big gigantic companies are in cahoots with one another and then one day...BOOM!...they bought all the governments.
We could see back in the 1980s that corporations were becoming more powerful than governments. And that power imbalance has only continued to become more extreme since then.
I saw it a lot further back in France, but they were called institutions back then, not corporations. A rose by any other name. It gives me hope that the sleeping giant (the citizenry) can only be pushed so far.
Its so nice on peertube nowadays. !peertube@lemmy.world if anyone wants to join and watch/post videos.
And of course arbitrary try Linux out. Its a very productive OS.
Unfortunately it's not as easy as "join and post videos". Finding an instance willing to host your videos is a massive issue. You might even have to pay a company to spin one up for you, whereas YouTube will just host your videos for free. There's the obvious sustainability issue, but for a small channel, or someone who doesn't have cash reserves and is just trying video-making out, no upfront investment is kinda a no-brainer.
Check out this link: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115
I'm litteraly running mine on an old tiny mini PC. And as long as you dont abuse instances, hosting videos is as easy as signing up and clickng post.
Peertube has direct imports and there are plenty of instances willing to host videos.
"You will give us your data no matter what."
They are helping you staying away from windows, use linux it's free
Hello, I am wondering if I could get a stranger on the internet to let me know if I should use Linux. I just wish more people would literally just say "Use Linux".
Do not not use Linux
Use Linux
Don't know if this is a useful perspective, I switched to Linux about 2 weeks ago, coming from windows all my life, and most recently win10. It's been tough, it seems like you can do anything you want, but you're gonna spend many an hour troubleshooting early on for sure, and if you don't have some amount of command line experience that's gonna suck
You've been using Windows all your life. It will take time to be comfortable with Linux since it's a different workflow, that's normal.
I've been casually using gnu/linux for nearly twenty years and i'm still looking up commands I use with some regularity.
What have you run into that sticks out to you?
I’m curious because I’ve been on Linux full-time for 2 years now and an avid user for years before, but my friend is thinking of switching and I want to know what he might need help with.
You know, Linux is great. I love it. I run a lot of things on it. But it can be a frustrating experience. Simply put, its not a one to one replacement and it will simply not fit into some peoples lives like windows has up to this point.
My personal experience with linux desktops (some arch flavors and fedora) combined with Wayland and an Nvidia card have been pretty abysmal.
On prior Fedora's and Endeavor, I had Firefox crashing constantly, no clue why. Crashes reduced this week with the release of Fedora 43 but its still not stable. This is something I've not experienced under windows ever since they rewrote firefox like.. 10 years ago now?
With KDE plasma, its system apps like settings crash. I've not had to restart my PC with the physical restart button under windows for quite a while now. But when using KDE, the whole thing freezes and will just not respond.
I've tried playing some CS2 literally today and couldn't make it through a match without a crash.
Vendor software for hardware devices (drivers) is missing linux support a lot of the time and while I appreciate open source alternatives, they just don't cover the edge cases I had. As an example: razer rbg lighting effects stacking is non existent on linux. Open RBG works.. but its not good enough.
I'm sooo ready to use KDE Plasma on a daily basis and really want to, but the stability I want is just not there yet. If you have simple use cases, don't stray too far onto the edge, possibly have older hardware and don't need Wayland or don't use Nvidia, I'd definitely recommend it. I use Mint on my 14 year old laptop just fine, but its got an old ass nvidia card, uses x11 with cinnamon and I don't game on it. Stable as a rock. I use Debian (headless) on my home server and it hasn't crashed with a 3 year uptime.
Desktop linux on a gaming machine.. I've just been disappointed.
Sorry for the dump. I'm voicing my frustration out of love for linux, not out of hate.
It's a tough change, I won't lie. It depends on what you need too, good luck if you need Adobe apps. The first while is frustrating, weird and unfamiliar, but there will come a time where Windows will feel that way instead.
This is a screenshot of this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503 Edit: WAS a screenshot - thanks for editing the post.
Which is about this Reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1oiz0v0/youtube_is_taking_down_videos_on_performing/
"non-standard" means without a Windows account (gasp!) and on "non-standard equipment" - like, what a Samsung Smart Fridge instead of the ads? I can't tell what that means, YT thinks I'm a bot, and can get fucked instead of me digging any deeper.
"Non-standard equipment" for Windows 11 includes PCs with Intel 7th gen or older processors, many of which are still perfectly good and powerful enough to run Windows 11. So, it's pretty sad that these videos are being taken down.
EDIT: clarity
Oh, FFS. Of course it is.
Can confirm, I still own an i7-7700k. Pretty much all 77xx variants were on the compatibility list but mine wasn't. Weird thing, though (sarcasm), I used the standard Win11 Install Media to install, and it did so with no problems! Funny, that.
Occasionally it threw a fit with the Office apps my partner needed to use (the standard for the university and LibreOffice's docx, xlsx format is not compatible with M$), all it did was refuse login due to lack of TPM2.0, but this only happened after the 24H3 update or whatever it's called.
All this is moot for me now though, I use Arch
I know it's a normal thing, to not instantly look for alternatives to software you might have used for your entire life, and I get it, if it hasn't harmed you or done you wrong, then it's probably fine to stick with what you know.
But as someone who first experienced alternatives to Windows back in 2006, and like others who walked the more beaten path, we've grown tired of this stuff. The slow, decline of Windows, and the promise of something better with every update.
It won't surprise me if one day they decide to full send it and charge a monthly subscription to use the full OS, not one bit. Enshittification, it's bound to happen. I'm teaching my child about linux now, so they'll be aware that software doesn't have to suck.
Try something different, it's a good way to live, to know you don't have to remain where you are if you don't want to. Of course, only if you want to!
Thank you. Yep. Can you just go ahead and leave your pamphlets and boot DVD by the door and we'll read them. We're eating dinner right now.
Right. A long winded response ignoring the subject of google censorship.
-1
It seemed somewhat topical to me. Google's censorship is the same trend of enshittification that Yar is talking about.
There are tons of other comments talking about the censorship issue. Using this moment to plug open source software is not unreasonable.
You can't share a recipe for pizza sauce on lemmy without someone shouting about Linux. It's just part of life here. Best to accept it.
Firefox based and Chromium addon to redirect YouTube and other links to privacy alternatives. Works for Firefox based browsers on Android too.
Invidious won't let you play a video that youtube itself removed
Invidious suck ass, instances don't work most of the time
inv.nadeko.net isn't terribly unreliable, but I usually eliminate most of the other instances from the libredirect list.
They realise that A LOT of those videos are not primarily about Windows?
I've seen many reviews of vintage devices where the uploader just casually installs Windows 11 in a "nonstandard" way, just because it's the only way.
Besides, you still have to activate it. Rufus doesn't help you get around that, so it's not even piracy.
You don't understand, I'm scouring the internet for obscure archives of videos on how to manually uninstall Windows 11 components with the command line because Linux is just too hard to learn!
Why does Google even care? They should make Microsoft file takedown notices for each of these installs while at the same time promoting Linux after all their own OS runs on Linux (I know it's a piece of junk that can't compare to a typewriter but still)
Google doesn't care, this is most likely an algorithm taking down the video based on the title. Not the first time the algorithm took down videos accidentally see the copyright case below for example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577
That was years ago, now it is worse.
Most likely Microsoft is paying them
Or just sending them takedown requests that Google acts on by default.
Me in 2026: diving into the dark web to find an instruction manual
They took control of the digital town square and now its a prison. Monopolitistic shithole corporate vampire behavior.
"Freedom is dead. Freedom remains dead. And we've killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?"
-Nietzsche 2026
Time for Peertube to shine!
just searched youtube for “ windows 11 without microsoft account”.
there are thousands of videos still up.
people will just believe anything that fits their worldview and not check anything out….
The fact that some videos remain does not mean that some videos haven't been removed
Yeah I don’t understand their take at all.
“They haven’t gotten them all so THEY’RE NOT DOING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE so reactionary with your worldview JEEZ”
This is the kind of low-tier thinking that got us here in the first place.
just because a couple were removed doesn’t mean they were removed because of that….
if thousands of videos exist like that, they’re clearly not removing all videos like that.
It's disheartening, really. I fully sympathize with the efforts of software freedom and independent media platforms, but it's just so annoying how people with "my" world view are just like all other people as well – we believe what we want to believe and only question what goes against our beliefs.
I'm not saying I'm better, but I just hate it in general.
Its like the Tide pod thing. Two or three instances and suddenly its a wave of it happening.
This is another reason why we have got to stop centralizing everything on the web. When you reply on these platforms, you have lost all autonomy over your brand, data and content. And they get to decide what you see and do. We need to go back to everybody hosting (self-hosting or paid hosting) their own data, content and building out their own communities again. I also miss going to more than 3 websites a day.
It's easier than ever to make your own website. You could vibe code one up super fast and throw up some images or videos.
Getting people to see the stuff you make is the major hurdle. These platforms have that benefit because everyone is already there.
Not to mention if you were able to get traffic to your site it probably won't scale well lol.
That being said you should all be making web sites! Things were better when there were more places to go
You're correct on the being seen part, but maybe this would involve retraining people to start using a different search engine that works. But I know most of this is will never see the light of day, but maybe one day we can hope for a better future for the internet.
I do fear, with AI now replacing search by many people, what will the internet look like in the next 5 years. Scary to think what that will look like.
Weird that Google would be doing Microsoft a solid like this
It's a big club and we ain't in it.
Download the ISO from MS, make bootable USB with Rufus. After clicking Start you can choose local account only, bypass TPM and RAM reqs, etc
E I guess not fin. Massgrave
I recently set up quite a few friends and family with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise licenses thanks to MassG. Told them if they don't get updates past next Tuesday to let me know.
I did the same for my Windows 10 PC... It says my 3-6 year ESU is active, but I get the bug in the setting screen saying Windows no longer gets updates.... But I got a defender update the other day! Cautiously optimistic
rufus can download the latest 10 or 11 iso direct from ms servers (incorporating the fido ps1 script, made by the same guy), so you only need rufus and a flash drive.
Seems like this war is going to take longer than expected
Didn't click the link.
Why are they taking these videos down?
Rumor has it their garbage AI thinks they are hacking techniques.
Why are they removing hacking videos? Have they always done that? IT help videos are the cornerstone of why YouTube has any redeeming value these days. I know, I know, I shouldn't use it, but sometimes it is the only place that has the info you need.
Wasn't Google trying to get their own OS off the ground? It's in their business interest for people to switch from Windows to elsewhere.
It's not about business interests. We live in the age of fiat currency and these are trillion dollar companies that do almost nothing of value. It's about control and surveillance and for forcing the peasants to use the algorithms. Competition is a fantasy taught in reganomics classes in college. The reality is these companies are a giant cartel that want to manage all the workers and brainwash us and absolutely will protect each other. It's not just companies but politics as well. What is the democratic nominee doing right now? Talking about why trans women should be allowed to compete with women in sports. They couldn't find a more offensive topic to make sure Trump wins again.
facts. cartel economy is the biggest problem and it cannot be solved without proper legislation. the worst thing is that those cartel are basically the government so good luck doing anything about that.
It's not in their interest for people to switch to something actually good that they will want to stay on, though.
the paradox of capitalism. can't just have a good thing because that doesn't perpetually generate money at scale.
As long as the Linux install videos stay up, I actually applaud this
This would be a GREAT time to post some links to videos about it on Peertube.
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why tf are you uploading windows 11 install progressions. is this content nowadays?
They're showing you how you can install win 11 on machines that Windows 11 tries to claim can't run it, but actually can.
You know, getting around forced obsolescence...
Rare Youtube W I guess?
Like a wise man once said FAFO
For those who care, at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10.
CMD will open.
Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.
Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.
Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.
Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.
Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.
Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter.
Next type "regedit" and press enter.
This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE"
Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID"
Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1".
Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"
I am usually not that guy, but honestly, why not just install Linux Mint at this point
Because some people still require windows for what ever reason and also it's fun to resist corporate bullshit by spitting in their face.
Personally I switched to Bazzite for my gaming rigs and Mint for everything else, but I wont judge anyone who wants to stay on windows despite the hostility microsoft has for its user base and I say more power to them.
Those who stand defiant in the face of overwhelming odds are exactly the sort of folk I like.
I'm that guy.
Install Linux Mint.
I cannot find this meme I know I have seen
Panel 1: "Installing Windows 20 years ago" screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Panel 2: "Installing Linux 20 years ago" screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 3: "Installing Windows today" screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 4: "Installing Linux today" screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Lol im stealing that
That's a lot of instructions just to use the computer you paid for and is yours...
Linux has its stupid bullshit too, its just 12 of one and a dozen of another sort of situation. For example I don't have to jump through hoops to auto mount a secondary drive on windows I just install the drive and there it is. But on linux I have to jump through all sorts of ridiculous hoops for some stupid reason. However it will auto mount flash drives and sd cards even though those are the ones more likely to pose a security risk.
A space is needed before the slash on this command, right? And no space before net.
You are correct I will update my instructions. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
I don't know if this is the case, but I've found that often Windows commands see the space as optional. It's weird, but generally works.
Using backticks instead of quotation marks is the ideal way to document technical instructions like this here:
Type `net user Prefferedusername /add` (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.Next type `net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add` and press enter.Honestly in my opinion just pirate windows ltsc/iot ltsc/server ltsc editions
A lot of people are doing that too, I'm not here to judge just to help.
Intructions unclear.
Invalid command: net rap user Prefferedusername Usage: net rap user add Add specified user net rap user info List domain groups of specified user net rap user delete Remove specified usernet user fossilesque /add I don't know where you are getting "rap" from but remove that.
And same people are complaining that Linux is difficult to install..
No, they aren't. The only people I ever here say that are angry linux fanboys complaining that people won't use their preferred distro. This guide is for the people who want to do such a thing. If you don't want to then don't no one cares. Use Bazzite or Mint if you think linux is too hard.
I've been doing this in command prompt:
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REGDWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown/r /t 0
After reboot it lets you choose "I don't have internet" and you can continue with creating a local account.
Haha does this mean they removed only the BypassNRO script, but not the underlying regkey?
You could also just make the iso using Rufus. It sounds easier than this shit.
i've run across a couple prebuilts where shift-f10 didn't work at any screen of the oobe. those just got clean installs via rufus.
Honestly that is the best approach if you are able too, but this guide is for those who can't or won't for whatever reason. https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ is also a great resource if you want to customize it further.