YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

YouTube is coming up with another infuriating way to force users to pay for Premium subscipriton or watch ads.

shortwavesurfer 30 points 4 months ago

I find getting rid of YouTube to be incredibly difficult. I use both peer-tube and odysee as much as possible, but still find myself on YouTube more than I'd like. Of course, I'm only doing YouTube through a newpipe, but it's still accessing YouTube.

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CafeFrog 20 points 4 months ago

odysee as much as possible

Just a heads up, Odysee became bankrupt after its parent company LBRY (owned by a hyper racist and fascist ancap who was trying to politically takeover New Hampshire with a right-wing libertarian community to, among other things, revoke child-labor protection laws before being kicked off the board for his racism) did a pump'n'dump of their LBRY coin without reporting it on their taxes, which the government sued them for since it was illegal.

Odysee was then bought out by Arweave; a blockchain crypto scam company created and owned by Forward Research, which itself is owned by Sam Williams; another venture capital crypto techbro libertarian/ancap who also bought a big NFT company during the Odysee aquisition. So unfortunately, Odysee is no better than Google.

Peertube is great though.

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shortwavesurfer 1 point 4 months ago

I am fully aware of what odysee is. I still choose to use it because I'm a libertarian myself, and it's still a competitor to Google.

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CafeFrog 2 points 4 months ago

I see. Does the crypto aspect of Odysee and its new NFT-liking owner concern you at all? If not, have you seen this video?

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