• MattR@feddit.org
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    15 hours ago

    No, I don’t see them and the day I cannot block ads anymore is the day I am going to stop using YouTube. It’s really not that important to life.

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      15 hours ago

      why wait? Give invidious a try, or see if any of the creators you follow also uploads their videos in PeerTube or odyssey or something… The creators, I do follow does that - its good.

      • MattR@feddit.org
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        12 hours ago

        I know of PeerTube and like the concept. Out of my 57 subscribed channels only 2 are available via PeerTube, 4 more are available on other sites. I hope this will improve. I’m not using the normal YouTube interface. I’ve customised it to my needs with injected scripts plus additional cosmetic blocking, e.g. I filter out unwanted search results and removed all shorts. For now it works well enough. Anyway, I’m already in the process of reducing YouTube consumption.

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        14 hours ago

        Invidious is developed really poorly. The documentation even recommends restarting the service hourly for what I assume has to do with memory leakage (they don’t actually mention the reason, but memory leaks are significant either way). I’d stay away from that project.

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        14 hours ago

        I use Grayhay since it makes it so all platforms I follow are on there and I can easily download videos if I want, plus follow people like Louis Rossmann on peertube, YouTube, if they have patreon or nebula there too.

      • MattR@feddit.org
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        3 hours ago

        Oh, I don’t care if they care about me. The attention of my comment was to express how unimportant YouTube has become for me.

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        5 hours ago

        Are you under the impression that Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk is one person? Physically they might be, but their words represent a massive amount of people. I think millions of people would stop watching if they had to endure youtube without adblock.

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        10 hours ago

        … Why would I care if they miss me?

        Why would I care about their opinions at all? I’m pretty sure we care about each other’s opinions about equally as is.