• Pman@lemmy.org
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    14 hours ago

    ReVanced and Grayjay do the same thing but for free and are open source so long as Google keeps trying to engineer enshitification the proud people of the open source community will engineer a solution.

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      4 hours ago

      Hmm weird take. Yes these are solutions to the Ad’s problem from the user side but they are just UI Wrapper for Youtube so they don’t have any costs for hosting & providing all the content. So yea they don’t need to monetize. This doesn’t however fix the problem for Youtube itself. How are they supposed to pay for cost & make a profit?

      I totally agree that Youtube with all the Ad’s is unusable (I’m using an AdBlocker) but Youtube is still a Profit orientated company so how do we fix this dilemma. Youtube Premium feels not worth it to most people because Youtube was always “free” so paying for it now makes people go like “WTF?”. So Ad’s & enshitification was/is the only way to make a profit for Youtube. I don’t like it either but this is reality.

      If you have a solution for them I’m sure they would pay you handsomely for it.