FreeTube wasn’t loading a video, so I tried opening it in the YouTube website instead. Rather than being able to watch a 13 second video (here it is in case anyone wants to know), I managed to capture is one of the most dystopian screenshots I’ve personally seen. Every single element of this image is truly astounding if you look close enough and think about it for a moment.
13 seconds of your life now costs you even more time to prove you’re not trying to scrape a video from a hundred billion dollar corporation with nearly infinite resources, advertisements and clickbait grabbing at your attention, every interaction logged and sold to thousands of data brokers, and you can’t even show your appreciation without selling more information by creating an account. How did we get here?
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Those recommendations… barf.
Truly disgusting and worrying.
I use my own Piped instance and can watch every video that has no age-restriction. Feels awesome and can highly recommend it.
Whats is wrong with hermitcraft?
This feels relatively tame compared to everything else that godforsaken platform has done in the past few months.
The content producer you’re trying to show appreciation for is the one who put their content on a platform that forces you to sell your information in order to appreciate them. Maybe let’s not appreciate those who do that.
We should not hold those ignorant to privacy accountable.They simply don’t know any better. Instead, we should only hold those actively opposing privacy accountable. We should try to educate those ignorant to privacy and show them the alternatives that exist. I bet if these content creators could switch without major loss (e.g. a major chunk of subscribers lost) most of them would be more than happy to.
It isn’t like it’s a niche secret that YouTube siphons people’s privacy and sells their personal information. Creators being ignorant about that might have been a excuse a decade ago, but not now. I don’t think we should be excusing content creators who collaborate with and benefit from the machinery of viewer-exploitative content distribution that is YouTube.
Edit: also, you’re here in a privacy community defending the violation of privacy that you yourself originally described as dystopian. I’m not trying to be confrontational with you, here. I genuinely do not understand how you can think that content creators bear no responsibility for the dystopian situation you’ve encountered. Certainly they don’t bear all the responsibility for what YouTube does, but they chose to support YouTube by uploading monetized content there.
I’m not saying they should be canceled for that, but appreciated for it? Let’s not.
I appreciate their content, not their choices.
I’d also be depressed if I was watching daily dose of internet.
Enlighten me, I just want a bit of mindless entertainment while doing the dishes
Why?
Is there an issue with it, aside from the ‘daily’ part being a lie?
wow, lemmians and redditors are just as miserable
I miss the old Internet so much. What we’ve gained in speech and features we’ve lost in freedom and control
The people can never know freedom in the digital space. The working class might get ideas about how to fix IRL
EDIT: Kid you not, I had just installed FreeTube on android when I found this, and in my excitement did not read the whole post
May I present you…
celestial chorus
FreeTube
PipePipe works much better
and if you’re on desktop, grayjay. apparently it’s based on pipepipe, saw some file or folder names when doing a timeshift restore
OH. okay then, i’m installing grayjay.
Did you even read the description?
In fact I didn’t! Thanks for pointing that out. Though every version of freetube I have installed works just fine. Ranging from Arch, to Nix, to Android and more. I did have a period where the version from the Arch repository didn’t work and I had to install it from the latest source. I thought that resolved itself eventually while I still daily drove Arch, but maybe not.