wow just wow while i can’t say i didn’t see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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    1 year ago

    If in the future they make it completely impossible to use ad blockers I’ll just stop actively using YouTube. I hope a good enough alternative comes around.

    I’ve heard it is quite difficult to make one.

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      1 year ago

      I remember when someone was laughing at me when i downloaded some niche videos that i liked to rewatch from yt because that someone thought that it will be there available and forever. Remember that they wanted to paywall 4K vids at some point.

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      1 year ago

      You could give Odysee a try. I was pleasently surprised at how well it works, and how nice the UI/UX is. Especially considering it is a decentralized platform.

      It’s missing a lot of the content that youtube has. Especially if you trying to look up a specific video or niche topic. But there’s still a lot of great content available if you are happy to browse.

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        1 year ago

        Oh boy that website looks amazing, I’ll be keeping an eye on it. I hope Youtube changes the direction it is going, but if it doesn’t at least we have a couple alternatives, I also found out that the ‘‘fediverse’’ has its own alternative with PeerTube.