I am in no way defending YouTube here, but how did it act anticompetitively?

Hosting and storage costs, few can afford to be an alternative to an absolutely gigantic video storage platform that costs obscene money to maintain.

And suppression of comments, for all sorts of reasons. Words and phrases will constantly flag AI autoremoval.

Whenever that happens, the heroes in the ublock team does push a new fix in a few hours.

Will check it out thanks!

@ChaoticEntropy @atlien51

you found your way to lemmy but you don't know about https://peertube.tv/

I think this one's a winner for me, thanks!

I will continue to download all my videos to avoid ads. When they break the tools in such a way that this is no longer possible, I will stop watching videos from YouTube and seek entertainment elsewhere.

It might, if it just blocks YouTube

Can't view ads if you can't view videos. Checkmate.

Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.

But I'll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I'll archive important content in the meantime.

OK, so a bittorrent tracker site with a video player built in with comments underneath and you can get perks from content creators for seeding. Then of course some kind of voting system and etc. Then a creator can just get a seed box to start hosting their own videos.

Stop using it. I did and now I only use unofficial ways of watching the videos I want. And I download the ones I wanna watch again.

Correct. If they ever roll out ads on premium, I’m not sure what we’ll do. Maybe figure out a new platform or a new way to watch.

FYI, this is currently happening with Uber.

what's a youtube ad?

youtube sucks ever since googol bought it.

SmartTube Beta has been a life changer on Android TV. I would just avoid youtube on my tv because fuck ads. But then i found SmartTube Beta, and wow. No more ads!

Or newpipe... Or pipepipe.