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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In my case a couple of warnings popped up and videos still played when those were closed, then they stopped showing up altogether. We'll see how it goes, I suppose.

This ends when Youtube is subscription-only, probably.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For the few creators I follow that are on peertube I always make sure to watch them there, but youtube's pull is just too big. I'll use whatever method that skips the ads, but as soon as a subscription is the only way to avoid them, eh. Maybe that's the day I "move" to Albania or some other country where there aren't ads on YT.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I'm always torn on that one. Technically I watch more Youtube than many of the streaming services I do pay a subscription for. It shouldn't be a bridge too far to move one of the ones I use least to YT.

    At the same time the idea that YT is a fundamentally user-driven, social platform is still there. It's very debatable at this point, but it's at the core of the idea, so it's a hard adjustment to make.

    And Google going ham on trying to close loopholes and enshittify their closed platform with no recourse is such a reversal of that pitch it's very hard not to go "well, screw you" and see how far you can push back.

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