Which OS were you using?
>I think there is a difference between banning and not promoting. Not
including a channel by default is not a ban, since the user is still free to
add that channel. Including it by default promotes it. Apple is a nasty
company, and I don't see why they deserve the privilage of being promoted
>you could argue that Apple movie trailers is something very
specific
the word you are searching for is 'advertisement'.
And the answer to your initial question is without fail a big NO. :/
I have not tried Videos on Trisquel.
And... oh, for crying out loud! It doesn't work!
> By the way, Videos is a great way to search and view YouTube videos
without proprietary JavaScript.
I just installed it to try it out. I really don't get how it works, if I
press the "search"-icon I can type in stuff to search for, but it defaults to
search for stuff in my own filesystem.
> By the way, Videos is a great way to search and view YouTube videos
> without proprietary JavaScript. My only gripe is that it fetches
> videos in MP4 format instead of WebM, so it won't work on stock Fedora.
I haven't tried this, but if totem uses youtube-dl/avideo as its backend for
Are you able to actually play any of the Apple trailers? I get an error: "Could
not initialize the supporting library", but this could be due to an unrelated
bug. My impression from this forum is that totem is buggy in general, at least
in Trisquel.
If the videos can be played without non-free
My concern with banning Apple movie trailers is, wouldn't banning it
mean you'd have to ban all of YouTube? That wouldn't be good.
But, you could argue that Apple movie trailers is something very
specific, and that specific thing should be banned while non-specific
things like YouTube should
GNOME apps have two names: a technical/package name, and a display
name. For example, Web is called "epiphany" still, in the package
managers.
Videos is still totem, but it is no longer Totem with a capital T.
>Is it OK that GNOME Videos displays Apple movie trailers when I first launch
it?
No.
Well, it always has contained an access to so called video channels. The
package name is 'totem'. I haven't used it for a couple of years or so. I
don't think there is something to fear, it definitely does get those videos
ethically.
What's the package name? I don't see anything called gnome-videos or anything
similar.
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