Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Like it or not, YouTube still has a fuckton of good, informative tutorials and advice on how to fix things or make things made by individuals with a phone camera and no script, who make them not for money but for the pride in sharing their knowledge. I shared some fix it videos for my van and a very obscure phone, and consumed a lot of fix it videos for washing machines, motorbikes and furniture.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This. YouTube is extremely helpful for anyone who can’t afford to take their stuff to a repair service or hire someone to fix something at their home. Just a few months ago, I thought my washer was done for, but it turned out to be a super simple fix that no website mentioned except for a super obscure YouTube video with only a couple hundred views. Saved me hundreds of dollars. There’s countless other anecdotes like that over the years.

    This is what sucks so much about Google’s monopoly. I truly wish a cooperative of governments of academia created a publicly funded alternative as well as hosting an archive of YouTube on it.

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  • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Give it a couple of years. AI is just getting started.

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