if they outright forced us to stop day one there’d be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we’re like lambs to a slaughter
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Each one of those posts has hundreds or more comments and upvotes. Lemmy is still relatively small. I’m positive this is all over Reddit but I’m not gonna go check. The outrage is here and it is thriving where posts directly pointing to solutions are not (they get maybe ten to twenty upvotes and a handful of comments each). There have been multiple articles in the news cycle about it.
It was similar with the Netflix price hike and the Netflix anti-password sharing going public. Remains to be seen whether that outrage will actually amount to anything.
It won’t amount to much if there’s no viable alternative.
Moving to piped, invidious, freetube etc is what most with big enough outrage are doing (including me) but let’s face it: that’s just kicking the can a bit further down the road. Can’t “FOSS” YouTube, what they’re rendering usable again still is fully owned by Google and they’ll look in to deploying techniques to put an end to that Foss frontending too, eventually.