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[–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Peertube is a solution, it is an open source peet to peer video hosting platform. But in truth having good competition is a way to force better practices, and if open source is the best option people will go for it if they know about it. linux, thanks to valve and Microslop's poor idea of what people want (and governments leery of Microsoft and Trump's close association decoding to have their own OS for internal use at least), have gotten a small influx of users as a whole, but with more users the more open source solutions to compatibility will be produced, and hopefully if you are looking for the YouTube equivalent you'll try peertube.

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