With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn’t be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won’t be able to soon.
my current guess is: this problem will mostly fix itself
youtube-ads are ridiculous. I wouldn’t consume these as they are now. If I’m forced to use that site without sponsorblock and adblock, I’m tending to just never watching anything there.
So if NewPipe/Sponsorblock (and of course NewPipe+Sponsorblock) are gone, then I won’t use that shit anymore and don’t feel any pain.
Same as with reddit. The last weeks I visited when pointed to reddit by some search enigne, but not out of “I could browse it for fun”. I didn’t miss anything. Twitter? Not even trying to visit that shithole anymore, since most links are unreadable anyways.
If platforms are closing down, they will lose my interactions. More free time for me!
I’m already 90% done with YouTube since their discovery feature is totally broken. A feed with 40 videos, 25 of which I’ve already watched 5 that are right wing outrage porn and literally nothing I want to watch at all?
I have a few subscriptions that are on floatplane, nebula or peertube already that’s pretty much all I watch on YouTube since it’s so enshittified.
I’d happily pay for premium if yt would unfuck their suggestions, but if they decide to lock out adblock instead I’m totally gone.
A feed with 40 videos, 25 of which I’ve already watched
This is such a problem for me. There needs to be a “remove from the feed because I’ve already watched it, but i’m still interested in this type of content” button.
I’m 100% in agreement with you. I just fear we’re the minority because most users just bend over and take the ads up the ass
why are u downvoted ? some people just like to bend over i guess
I’ve known this for years, I’m constantly stunned everytime the ytdlp gui I wrote manages to pull down a file.
My saying has always been: “I trust each of these tech companies, up until they’re about to miss their second earnings estimate.” and any data you give them cannot be ungiven.
