Maybe there was this one dev who joined the company 20 years ago, and has seen it deteriorate ever since. He’s worked his way up to the top, and thinks the company needs to be destroyed, but they’re an ad company, so the only way to do that is to kill ads.
After years of planning, he came up with the idea of making the ads so horrible, that people stop using services, or the ad blockers become ungodly powerful they can never be stopped.
Ultimately, it will be the end of Google, but it is the long play.
the only real alternatives to youtube for me are probably curiousity stream and floatplane, both of which cost subscriptions i can’t afford at the moment.
Edit: I did grab a subscription to Nebula for a year for €25 because I like someone on there. Seemed reasonable for a whole year of everything they have, and I do like watching Legal Eagle these days.
YouTube is such a great source for adding skills and knowledge
Slowly though. Watching is wasting a lot of time, and nearly everyone on there stretches it out in the name of “content” and sponsers.
There are a few that don’t, but realistically, that knowledge is elsewhere. It’s a shame people don’t self host videos as much any more. I just embed them in my web page if I absolutely need to.
Or simply make the files available, which if you look around, a lot of them are out there, so download and watch at your pace, and delete when done.
It’s like they want people to block ads holy crap. Next chance I get I’m installing invidious on my parent’s roku so they can skip this garbage.
Maybe there was this one dev who joined the company 20 years ago, and has seen it deteriorate ever since. He’s worked his way up to the top, and thinks the company needs to be destroyed, but they’re an ad company, so the only way to do that is to kill ads.
After years of planning, he came up with the idea of making the ads so horrible, that people stop using services, or the ad blockers become ungodly powerful they can never be stopped.
Ultimately, it will be the end of Google, but it is the long play.
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Personally I think it’s time to just move on you tube is done.
But if it’s roku they can add the playlet channel. Youtube without ads.
the only real alternatives to youtube for me are probably curiousity stream and floatplane, both of which cost subscriptions i can’t afford at the moment.
edit also Nebula! forgot about that one.
With Linus? You couldn’t pay me to watch that.
Edit: I did grab a subscription to Nebula for a year for €25 because I like someone on there. Seemed reasonable for a whole year of everything they have, and I do like watching Legal Eagle these days.
It’s run by Luke technically, but yeah it’s under Linus Media Group. A lot of creators I like (such as Wade from Dank Pods) are on there.
I would never give that clown a dime.
yeahhh thats the invidious frontend i was gonna install.
got it. It is as simple as them adding the channel. It doesn’t have a lot of features, but it is serviceable.
YouTube will not be done until a viable alternative is established.
every time a viable alternative is established google will buy it
Its done for me, there is nothing there I need to see.
I’m really surprised by this. YouTube is such a great source for adding skills and knowledge if you can weed through the crap.
It is admittedly more and more difficult to weed though.
Slowly though. Watching is wasting a lot of time, and nearly everyone on there stretches it out in the name of “content” and sponsers.
There are a few that don’t, but realistically, that knowledge is elsewhere. It’s a shame people don’t self host videos as much any more. I just embed them in my web page if I absolutely need to.
Or simply make the files available, which if you look around, a lot of them are out there, so download and watch at your pace, and delete when done.