It’s hilarious watching all the corporate apologists claiming stuff didn’t exist before corporations came in and stole all the credit for work they didn’t do in the first place.
My worry with all this is that they might say fuck it and put DRM for all YouTube videos which would block attempts to download the videos. Not make it impossible as seen with streaming services but not as trivial as now…
The day they go 100% paywalled, is the day their dominance ends. They will never do this because, contrary to the corporate dickriders in this thread they rely on bait and switch tactics to draw the crowd in the first place.
I will download videos then. I refuse to not use an adblocker on the modern internet.
Pirate everything, it’s the only way to show greedy corporations the content should be free.
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Except it was free, and people did make content.
It’s hilarious watching all the corporate apologists claiming stuff didn’t exist before corporations came in and stole all the credit for work they didn’t do in the first place.
This is why
privacyPIRACY is justified. The only way is not to pay!Edit: 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Did you mix up your buzzwords?
Privacy and Piracy go hand in hand, don’t you think?
It would be really cool to be able to download YouTube videos withour the sponsorship segments, I wonder if there is a way to do his already?
yt-dlp has a command-line option to download videos while using sponsor block.
Like the ads surrounding the video and breaking the video up or the spots in the video where the creator hawks their latest wares?
If I see one more PCBWay ad…
On android, I use Seal. Its basically a frontend for yt-dlp and has a sponsor block feature.
I swore I’ve seen a FOSS project that did that. An ad segment detector basically
My worry with all this is that they might say fuck it and put DRM for all YouTube videos which would block attempts to download the videos. Not make it impossible as seen with streaming services but not as trivial as now…
Time to quit YouTube then
Heck yeah let’s all go to break.com
Didn’t know this was still a thing haha. It brings me back
I already subscribed to someone on Floatplane. If it gets much worse on YouTube, it might be time to switch fully.
The day they go 100% paywalled, is the day their dominance ends. They will never do this because, contrary to the corporate dickriders in this thread they rely on bait and switch tactics to draw the crowd in the first place.
I didn’t say anything about paywalled.
Google’s plan is to DRM the web