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Yes. You will quit YouTube. But 99% of people won’t and they make YouTube more revenue via either watching more ads or giving up and subscribing
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Can somebody explain peertube for me? It sounds like it should be a federated video service, but either the federation doesn’t work very well or there’s nothing on it.
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None of those have all the creators and people don’t want to go between multiple apps.
This fight is lost. The way to win it now is legislation or blowing up data centers.
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None of those well ever compare to youtube. You think all the videos are going to stay on those platforms forever? You think they well scale to youtube levels of users?
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You can also contribute to PipeLine, it’s a desktop client that aggregates YouTube and a few others. And it’s written in Rust.
The issue with YouTube is the network effect though. Even if you can get a lot of users to use one of those multi platform clients, it’s still hard to get the creators to leave. And till they stay, the users stay.
Odysee exits
ewww, nothing but far right garbage on that site
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You forgot https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy
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Honestly, considering the YouTube algo and platform, what are people even watching on there in 2026 that is worth it?
So much of it is a person looking into a camera with a microphone having one sided pre-written opinion debates.
Even educational and conference talk videos don’t seem worth the duration.
Smart TVs are really just somebody else’s computer that you paid for to watch ads on.
Hmm somehow i havent ever gotten those kinds of ads… maybe because im using ublock? Must be something else, i am just the chosen one.
I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.
I like paying for services rather than using free services that sell my data and brainwash me with ads. Adblock is fine, but how are they supposed to make money? Should the service be free?
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I don’t mean this in an accusatory way, but did you write this with AI? I feel I’m becoming paranoid and seeing AI authorship in everything. The structure matches ChatGPT output.
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“unskippable”
I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube for years, with 2 simple browser plugins. Assuming you’re on a PC:
Ublock Origin Sponsor Block
If you’re using chrome, you already fucked up.
The same fucking comment every single time.
This platform is so predictable.
Ads on YouTube are a solvable problem. Why not spread the knowledge?
because guillotines are not legal everywhere
The problem stays the same, why should the answer change?
The problem stays the same, why should the answer change?
because chromium introduced a newer addon system that restricts what addons can do… effectively forcing adblockers to do a lot more work to keep functioning, with some features being impossible now
https://blog.adblockplus.org/blog/how-adblock-plus-is-getting-ready-for-manifest-v3
They did? They can’t? I haven’t noticed. 🤷
youtube usually rolls out “features” only for a smaller subset of users a time (to limit service disruptions and backlash), just because you are not affected yet does not mean that it will not affect you soonish