Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
Polar@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Lmfao, no one is dropping YouTube. You’ll be back one way or another.
Use Piped and Invidious. Newpipe with SponsorBlock on my android. LibreTube is also good.
You’re right, I haven’t dropped Youtube - but I’ve added Nebula. It’s not gonna be long now before either my last youtube-only creator moves to Nebula or I find some way to get an ad-free provider to play on my TV. Then I can finally unsubscribe from YT.
Lmfao, I left last week. Be the change.
See ya when you need a video on how to fix something, a review releases, or you get sent a video from a friend.
gets redirected to my preferred piped/invidious instance
you sure?
I’ve quit watching videos on Youtube hundreds of times!
The actual stuff I want to watch is also on Nebula. I had subscribed to premium because I was watching mostly on my console but instead of renewing I’d rather switch there and actually pay the content creators.
He should go to piped.
tyrant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Many are on lemmy because they dropped Reddit. Myself included. I was an active user on Reddit for well over a decade. This guy seems pretty serious
ours@lemmy.film 8 months ago
But replacing Youtube is sadly much harder.
I bet we’ll just get better ad blockers.
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
An eternal arms race: Ads vs. Adblockers. Just like malware vs anti-malware protections. System penetration vs. system hardening. It iust entered another stage of technological development, but that doesn’t mean it’s over or that we need to throw the towel.
tyrant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Google will probably just move to strictly subscription based eventually. Just like you need a subscription to turn on a cars seat heaters now. Everything is going subscription. It’s maddening.