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After years of wading through endless crap—click‑bait thumbnails, algorithmic rabbit holes, and non‑stop ads—I finally stopped using YouTube. Below are the main reasons I walked away and a handful of privacy‑friendly alternatives that let you keep the content you love without the garbage.

YouTube’s recommendation engine throws endless crap at you, turning a 5‑minute tutorial into a 2‑hour binge you never signed up for.

What I do instead:

Lemmy – I follow specific communities (r/technology, c/firefox,c/degoogle ``) and browse chronologically or by “Hot”. No hidden agenda, just the posts I chose.
RSS feeds – Subscribe to the channels I actually care about via an RSS reader (Feedly, Newsboat, or Lemmy’s built‑in RSS). New videos appear as they’re posted, no surprise junk.

Every view, pause, and hover is logged and sold to advertisers. Even with an ad‑blocker, YouTube still harvests data through its API calls and cookies.

What I do instead:

PeerTube – Decentralized, ad‑free video hosting. Each instance runs its own moderation and privacy policies. You can even self‑host a node if you want full control.

Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk by afporritt1001 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] afporritt1001@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

So glad I installed Ubuntu 2510 so I do not get ai garbage and privacy issues security issues so Ido recommend Ubuntu for freedom

YouTube is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore. by afporritt1001 in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

[-] afporritt1001@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

Use peertube

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Android will let ‘experienced users’ sideload unverified apps as Google makes case for verification (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 months ago by afporritt1001@lemmy.today to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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https://9to5google.com/2025/11/12/android-sideload-unverified-apps/

Keep android open by afporritt1001 in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

[-] afporritt1001@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

I hope so

Keep android open by afporritt1001 in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

[-] afporritt1001@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

Me too

Keep android open by afporritt1001 in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

[-] afporritt1001@lemmy.today 9 points 5 months ago

Same I use grapheneos onto to my pixel 9a

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Keep android open (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 months ago by afporritt1001@lemmy.today to c/android@lemdro.id

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In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

Paying a fee to Google
Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
Providing government identification
Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
Listing all current and future application identifiers
Here is the https://keepandroidopen.org/

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Keep android open (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by afporritt1001@lemmy.today to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

Paying a fee to Google
Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
Providing government identification
Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
Listing all current and future application identifiers
The link is https://keepandroidopen.org/

Google what the hell is this? by afporritt1001 in c/privacy@lemmy.world

[-] afporritt1001@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago

it time to use piped invidous or peertube fuck google

We have some updates to our frontends! by afporritt1001 in c/main@lemmy.ca

[-] afporritt1001@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago

Awesome i use blorp with lemmy