Looks like you can generate from Website URLs if you add them as sources to your notebook, as well as Slides, Docs, PDFs etc. Anything NotebookLM supports.
The solution there seems trivial: Don't train on EU users' data. Then you won't need to revoke anything, and you get exactly as much data as if you don't launch at all.
In a lot of ways we're just now reclaiming the good parts of the flash-dominated web. Fair bit of bad collectively as we're relearning, but things are trending in an interesting direction.
This is an extremely insightful article. Strong agree with the core points made that these are copilots or co-processors rather than replacements. Maybe at some point in the future we will all be replaced (sound familiar?) but for now these are tools that can help us make progress as a society at a much faster rate
Do folks know that 55% of ad revenue goes directly to the creators whose content you are watching? Apps like this sound great, but ultimately damage ecosystems. YT Premium is like $11.99/mo and you never see an ad again. If you think you're getting $12/mo USD value out of YT, then I question why you'd want to go through the hassle of this over just paying not to see ads (ps: premium income also goes to the creators!) - how much is your time worth?
People can pay the content creators through Patron or other platforms without having Google watching and tracking every online action. Google is pushing tag manager and other options because of ad revenue. Killing ads at every possible opportunity is a noble act and moral responsibility of every tech sophisticated user.
> then I question why you'd want to go through the hassle of this over just paying not to see ads
Can I set the YouTube app to open directly to my list of subscriptions rather than the YouTube home page?
Can I hide the thumbnails from all videos on the YouTube app?
Can I skip annoying sponsored segments? (I usually end up blocking the entire channel which has annoying sposnored segments on my browser with BlockTube)
Can I turn off comments?
Can I turn off suggestions for videos to watch?
If the answer to any of these questions is no, I don't wanna use the official YouTube app, even if there are no ads after paying for Premium.
So, on one side we have advertisers in cooperation with youtube to push an obscure amounts of ads to a video, sometimes even more (in length) than the video itself + the youtubers themselvs having sponsored segments...
...on the other side we have something we have to pay to skip those ads (only the youtube ones, not the in-video ones), but youtube and google still tracks us, still shows us ads on other sites (eg. slow cooker ads, after watching clow cooker reviews on youtube...
...and on the "alternative" side, we have a free solution, that stops all the youtube ads, skips all the in-video ads, and blocks all the ads on other sites, makes our internet faster, makes our batteries last longer, and pay less when we have limited data plans.
No matter how much I can pay, why should I when I am getting a vastly superior experience with these options? This is just downloading and installing an app, wayy less of a "hassle" than setting up payment and exposing yourself to Youtube's abhorrent feed on the front page. These ideals don't work in the free market; if I can take something for free I'll take it as I see fit, as will all rational consumers across the world if they can.
The YouTube algorithm is the problem. Any feature that was designed to maximise engagement will eventually destroy the product itself. You can only avoid the algorithm if you don’t use the YouTube app.
My original comment was downvoted and is too old for me to edit. But I'm still curious. What do the people who disagree with me think YouTube should do? Is the issue that the ads are too intrusive? Are you uncomfortable with the tracking, but would be happy with the current 'pay to not see ads' if it wasn't for the tracking?
When you just screech about YouTube being unnacceptable without actually explaining your issues in detail it just sounds to me like you want google to host a (very expensive for them) video sharing service without monetizing it at all, which is obviously an unrealistic demand (also, you should promote peertube - p2p seems like the way to make this happen).
Go the way of Digg or disappear entirely, because if you need ads to survive, then you don't have a very good website. The competitors like Rumble or BitChute or Odysee or PeerTube will fill in the gaps.
We internet users don’t want to pay for anything, we don’t want to watch ads, we get upset when free products aren’t free anymore, and when we are the product…
Looks like you can generate from Website URLs if you add them as sources to your notebook, as well as Slides, Docs, PDFs etc. Anything NotebookLM supports.