I’m noting down fixes as I find them, and so far they are effective. However, our fixes face the same dillema as their changes - what one person can contrive another can work around.

We have the advantage of numbers, so we generate a wider range of work arounds, but our opponent can also see those work arounds (we share them freely) and so has an easier time countering them, i.e. they are faster at reversing each individual fix.

None of the fixes work or atleast don’t work for long. I’ve tried everything. Moving to a different front end etc. don’t really count as a fix to me because then you’ll also lose your video recommendations.

It’s been hit-or-miss for me (Firefox w/ uBlock). It seems like Google’s pushing updates at irregular intervals. Clearing the uBlock cache and forcing an update usually does the trick for me, though. I’m guessing they’ll burn the volunteers out eventually, though.

It is trivial to download youtube videos.

I wasn’t really referring to downloading, but rather Smartubenext, and Revanced

I wouldn’t say hard, just that nobody pirates them because they’re easy to ad block.

Like I said, I haven’t encountered it yet.

I have NextDNS with Adguard and some up-to-date filters applied on it.

Peertube has a great import feature.

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I heard there’s this stuff outside called grass.

I intend to touch it.

peertube

Bruh, your not gonna believe this, but the ducks at the park are free. if you use one of these, you can download all the ducks you want. I downloaded 9000 ducks so far.

Social media sites live or die on their contributors & users. If they make it too obnoxious even for established people to use the site, they’re going to look for alternatives.

Then the content will start to leave, and the users will follow, and then you’re like, “Sorry, I’ve never heard of Digg”.

Users who don’t directly pay for a social service where user content and interaction is the business are still valuable. They share videos around, they comment, they contribute to it being the place where everything is happening. There’s a reason all these tech platform companies spent so long in the honeymoon phase of monopolization. Without the network effect of people on their platform, they have nothing.

They still need a way to overall make profit from their users, but they aren’t losing nothing by losing people who adblock.

As long as Firefox keeps doing their thing and doesn’t adopt Google’s bullshit…

maybe talk to the author of ublock origin instead, i just commented on how i fixed it on my machines which all sit in europe :D

idk what crazy gunk google-australia is up to that makes it not work for you

Peertube already exists and it’s better because a creator can host their own content without having to host everybody else’s content and therefore keep the price manageable. If a creator absolutely blows up mega huge then people watching the same video at the same time will be sharing the video with peers and load balance

People are already leaving chrome just for that reason. Google underestimates just how fast people will bail on a platform that goes off the rails.

You’d be surprised how things can change, and quickly. It’s not going to be a overnight win for another platform. It’s going to have to start from the ground up, in probably a decentralized way, but it can happen.

And the reality is there never will be anything that can meaningfully compete. Not anymore. Youtube has inertia. It’s not just that content creators get part of the advertising or that Youtube functionally advertises their channels based on related content algorithms. It’s also that youtube has over a decade of historical material. It’s the largest collection of video content in the history of the planet. Ever. By far. The age of “people are going to ditch your service for a competitor’s” is long gone. We are squarely in the age of the solid internet, which is ruled by a handful of very large, very powerful corporations, who do not really have to worry about “new competition,” because the scale of their operations is so vast, so well established as a part of the culture, and so astronomically expensive to maintain that nothing new could ever hope to compete.

That’s because video hosting platforms aren’t profitable. Anyone that’s trying to do what youtube is doing will either have shortcomings or go bankrupt.

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I’ve also seen some Indian rap music videos on preroll lmao

Lawyers and copyright issues-- the legal system, they are probably always bombarded from all sides by the legal industry and content creators on copy right issues.