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Engywuck@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Fine. But I struggle to understand why you people keep fighting against a company while simultaneously being apparently so addicted to their products. Just do yourself a favor and stop using it altogether.
Just do yourself a favor and stop using it altogether.
I would, if the people that make the videos would fucking move to another platform. Problem is Youtube has a monopoly, 99% of the viewerbase is on that website, it’s borderline impossible to get any real traction outside of it.
too late, I already use Freetube, I don’t even use a Google account anymore to subscribe to channels.
I used Ublock to block the anti-adblock message, and it worked… so…
It works for me too, until I reach my limit of 3 daily videos, when I cannot watch more videos until the next day, whether ublock or not.
uBlock Origin tried that briefly. Google maneuvered around it pretty quickly.
I haven’t seen an ad or Adblock notification on YouTube in years. Methods abound.
I need to look into this. Gotta try and get away from gmail also.
check it out. Linux client available, or build from source, since it’s entirely free and open source on GitHub.
We’re not on YouTube because of the companie or its service, but for the people who create content on that platform. The problem is there isn’t a viable alternative for either creator or consumer, which basically makes YouTube a monopoly.
Floatplane, CuriosityStream or Nebula or whaever, lots of channels have the same videos on their Patreon. why don’t you use those?
oh right because they are paid services and you don’t want that
As much as I disagree with idea people are entitled to use youtube without compensation, you’re strawmanning them. This isn’t productive.
I actually do use some of those. Having said that, it’s not jus the consumers who have to use the alternatives, but also the creators. Like I said people are on YouTube for the content creators, not for YouTube itself. And the consumerbase on those alternatives is just too small to make them a VIABLE alternative. Hence why you see so many creators on nebula also on YouTube.
What i mean that there a lot of interesting alternative on the internet, not necessarily in video format (which is often very time consuming, with respect to the actual content).
It’s kind of like saying “if your country sucks so much, just leave”
Platforms aren’t like gas stations, even if you get off a platform, the hostile choices a platform makes ripple through society
Mfs out here with no mentally healthy hobbies slinging downvotes. I appreciate you mate.
Watching a Youtube video here and there is not an addiction. Google has a monopoly in the area. I’ve switched from Chrome to Firefox, and use both Google and Yandex search, but I can’t really switch away from Gmail, and if I want to watch e.g. a music video or some educational clip or interview, etc. etc. 99.9% of the time Youtube is the only place where I can do that.
I guess where you’re coming from is the annoyance with the endless complaining about Twitter and reddit. But those two, while definitely unhealthily large and living off an addicted userbase, are still not in a position as monopolistic and as unavoidable as Youtube’s.
Knusper@feddit.de 8 months ago
Because they have a monopoly.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
Quasi-monopoly.
There are alternatives. Daily motion is still quite big, for example.
BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Get real, dude. YouTube is all about mass broadcasting to the widest audience available, not reliable playback and a lack of advertisement, not that Dailymotion has either.
Knusper@feddit.de 8 months ago
YouTube has lots of competitors in the field of video content: Netflix et al, Twitch, TikTok, DailyMotion, Vimeo, PeerTube etc.
But they have a monopoly on specific content. If you search for a tutorial on how to take apart your specific toaster model, you’ll probably only find that on YouTube. Or if you’ve watched a specific video creator for years and they only upload to YouTube. Or even if your colleague sends you a link to some dumb YouTube video, then you’re not going to ask them for the title, so you can throw it into SepiaSearch.
If you’re part of a younger generation, it’s just not really an option to not use YouTube…
HKayn@dormi.zone 8 months ago
You’re confusing a monopoly with the network effect.