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Soup@lemmy.cafe

-21 points

2 months ago

Quick! Everyone! Hurry up and climb over one another to proclaim your hatred for YouTube and their practices so that you can have more time to go watch more YouTube videos!

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trollblox_@programming.dev

12 points

2 months ago

awe, I’m so proud of you; you figured out what a monopoly is!!

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Soup@lemmy.cafe

-12 points

2 months ago

Oh I’ve known. The difference is I’m not dumb enough to continue using shit I hate.

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magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org

3 points

2 months ago

Unfortunately you’re kind of stuck if what you want to watch is only being uploaded there. That’s why these alternatives exist. So you can watch their shit without contributing back to the site.

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Soup@lemmy.cafe

1 point

2 months ago

If what I want to watch is one a platform that I despise so much that I feel I need to whine about it online- and is a platform that takes advantage of people that create content for it to the point that it makes it to headline news articles-

Then no, I’m going to tell you that I’m not stuck at all. Those that feel they have no choice are.

I have enough strength of conviction to not support such a thing because I’m not weak-minded and addicted to watching videos like they are.

I can very easily walk away from anything I feel is hurtful to others, or just plain shitty. Basically, I just find it easy to not support things I hate.

You’d think this would be a simple and popular way to be- but ironically, if you suggest people stop using a shit platform that hosts things they like, like YouTube- they will turn on you in a second- but if you hate something that offers them nothing in return, like Norton Antivirus well… that’s just fine.

Kids are fucking weird.

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magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org

1 point

2 months ago

If the people who produce videos don’t stop, there isn’t much of an alternative other than abstinence.

At which point, what’s the benefit over using a mirror like invidious which gives you your video, uses up resources of the people you don’t like, and doesn’t harvest your data?

I wouldn’t use the actual YouTube site, or software clients. But open source mirror/alt clients like invidious, yt-dlp, or newpipe seem like a workable alternative.

Until people who make videos move the fuck over, most of my subscriptions in newpipe will continue to be YouTube accounts, and not channels hosted on a peertube instance.

Luckily newpipe works with both… For now.

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