That’s the idea I’ve got lately. I used to have Spotify through a community that’s been taken down; NewPipe/PipePipe has problems 5 days every month. I found a great site to watch shows with good CC thanks to this community, and a few days ago half the servers weren’t working anymore, and the ones that are still working are slow, like unusable.
Is it just all a big coincidence, or is trying to make people exhausted a tactic?
Not for Youtube at least. They actively try to degrade performance for Ublock Origin users by refreshing elements that force ublock into a death loop that ends with exceedingly high CPU/RAM usage that potentially crashes your browser. At that point, I would say it goes beyond annoyance and into malicious activity.
So that’s why my browser keeps crashing
I’ve found that I can simply open a new tab for YouTube every so often, and close the old one. Perks it right up. Don’t even have to close the whole window.
Short answer: yes
Long answer: yeah
It’s been a constantly evolving war for a long time. I used to be able to just copy files from one floppy to another and that’s it. Then came some protection and we had to copy the whole disk nibble by nibble.
Any company being pirated will fight back eventually. You just have to keep up and deal with it. Or the alternative is paying money with no guarantee the service will hold up its end of the bargain anyway.
It sounds like you are ready to learn about self-hosting your own media and using services like Jellyfin and Navidrome to access your media.
You have a dedicated community of people who love sticking their fingers in the eyes of giant media conglomerates in their free time vs massive media conglomerates funneling millions of dollars into nullifying that work via DRM, code changes, etc.
Its an uphill battle, but it comes with the territory.
They’re consolidating their marketshare and decreasing cost through every method available to increase revenue. All the avenues of piracy have just become the lowest hanging fruit now that these companies aren’t growing anymore.
