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Breadtube if it didn't suck.
Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.
There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.
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If you're actually seeing sponsor spots on YouTube that's kinda a you problem
Without prior information about the company, one would consider it to be harmless, and not see for what it is: a mass-surveillance software. And look, fair point about ad revenue, but unfortunately, this could still cause real, irreversible damage.
Most people over here - well, on the internet in general, are tech-illiterate. Sure, they may "know" how to use a mouse, or a keyboard, or use apps but they don't understand or take software licenses seriously - I mean, there's anarchist and leftist power-users and software devs, who enforce copy-farleft and hippocratic licenses in their software, but non-tech people don't understand the significance of FSF-approved licenses.
They also probably use operating systems, which run telemetry services behind the scene, as well as embed advertisement ids to track trends, collect and share them without the permission of the user. Everything is so fucked up.
That's all true, but I don't even consider adblocking to be high level power user stuff so much as basic bare minimum usability.