• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Yes. Yes we have. This is why the internet isn’t fun anymore. I use YouTube like 20th century folk used TV. But at least I have control over my shit in that case.

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      3 days ago

      Most people use YouTube without an addblocker. In which case, your content comes with about ten times the amount of advertisements than if you’d use a TV.

      While we’re at it: I remember when opting into adds was a choice for creators on YouTube. Quite a few refused, even popular channels. Can’t imagine growing up with this shit now and thinking it’s normal.

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        3 days ago

        I used both Firefox, but after foxfire had some shit with selling info I went back to using brave. Brave has the best youtube ad blocker ever.

        And yes, I am aware that brave has its own info stealing shit.

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          3 days ago

          I use Newpipe on mobile. The app has issues from time to time, but I’ll take those over YouTube pr*mium any day.

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            I was ecstatic with NewPipe for months. But now I’m getting an error message saying I must log in to YouTube to protect the community. Just me?

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            Whenever NewPipe or PipePipe has an issue I switch to the other one (exporting and importing data takes 30s). Always worked so far