<story><title>De-googling, so far</title><url>https://blog.nradk.com/posts/degoogling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guyzero</author><text>I find it crazy that someone will say &amp;quot;I still consume it more than any other type of video media&amp;quot; but somehow just paying for it isn&amp;#x27;t an option. You can pay to make YT ads go away. And the payments go to the video creators (eventually).</text></item><item><author>least</author><text>The only thing irreplaceable for me is Youtube. Even if it&amp;#x27;s gotten worse as a platform over time, I still consume it more than any other type of video media and there are no good alternatives for much of the content that I enjoy watching.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lc5G</author><text>I would pay for youtube if they provided an official API to download videos and stream videos in a client of my choice.&lt;p&gt;I prefer to watch youtube with a custom player (mpv+yt-dlp on desktop, newpipe on android). I do not want to watch youtube on the youtube website or official youtube android app. The custom clients I am using are unofficial. They reverse engineer youtube to make it work. They often break when youtube changes something.</text></comment>
<story><title>De-googling, so far</title><url>https://blog.nradk.com/posts/degoogling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guyzero</author><text>I find it crazy that someone will say &amp;quot;I still consume it more than any other type of video media&amp;quot; but somehow just paying for it isn&amp;#x27;t an option. You can pay to make YT ads go away. And the payments go to the video creators (eventually).</text></item><item><author>least</author><text>The only thing irreplaceable for me is Youtube. Even if it&amp;#x27;s gotten worse as a platform over time, I still consume it more than any other type of video media and there are no good alternatives for much of the content that I enjoy watching.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomrod</author><text>Flex the steelmaning and incentivize me to buy YouTube Premium when adblocking gives me the same functionality and I own the process to block.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m happy to watch an occasional ad. Maybe 2 minutes for every day, curated and high quality advertisements relevant to everyone. No, I will not pay with my data. No, I will not accept interruption in flow, within or between videos.&lt;p&gt;Interrupting during a video means adblocking is justified.&lt;p&gt;Adding adverts to nonmonetized channels means adblocking is justified.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s my time. Google isn&amp;#x27;t paying for the use of my eyeballs, and I actively don&amp;#x27;t purchase things I see advertised via YouTube. I&amp;#x27;m not alone in this; most people don&amp;#x27;t buy for digital ads. They already nefariously steal my data at every opportunity.</text></comment>