Why don’t people just not use YouTube if they don’t like the ads? Simple.
Peertube is there for those folks. People keep whining about the monopoly but won’t go to another service to help grow it.
People also whine about sponsor ads, as if you have to watch those videos or those channels. Don’t consume their content if you don’t like it.
At the end of the day, if you don’t want to be tracked, hate ads and hate Google the solution is simple: stop using YouTube.
The anti Facebook people understand this, which is why we don’t see incessant posts about facebooks anti-Adblock on HN. The kind of people on HN who hate Facebook probably just don’t visit the site at all. Same with Reddit vs mastodon. Twitter vs threads. Quora vs ChatGPT.
Anti YouTubers seem unique in their constant whining yet reluctance to stop using what they hate.
And surely it's self evident that if everyone blocked ads, the service would stop functioning?
So all this is about being the "Special Few" who can get away with it, despite often positioning themselves as the Moral Choice because the adverts are bad.
Because these websites create expectation. If everyone is using YouTube, won't you be missing something by not going? If you started using the service when you felt it was great and it deteriorated since, would it really be unfair to feel a sort of betrayal?
You should go tell drug addict to just stop, not that hard. Maybe also to everybody complaining about house pricing, after all our ancestors build theirs with log and dirt why would you need something else.
>Why don’t people just not use YouTube if they don’t like the ads?
Simple: the videos they want to watch don't exist elsewhere. PeerTube doesn't help you if nobody you watch publishes to it.
I use PeerTube, I run my own instance. PeerTube really sucks compared to YouTube. Even with all of the enshittification and google crippling the service, the quantity, quality, and discoverability of videos on YouTube has no comparison at all anywhere.
People use YouTube for the reason they use anything: there simply is no viable alterative.
Whining at people to use PeerTube doesn't help. You have to convince people to publish there before anyone can use it.
Peertube is there for those folks. People keep whining about the monopoly but won’t go to another service to help grow it.
People also whine about sponsor ads, as if you have to watch those videos or those channels. Don’t consume their content if you don’t like it.
At the end of the day, if you don’t want to be tracked, hate ads and hate Google the solution is simple: stop using YouTube.
The anti Facebook people understand this, which is why we don’t see incessant posts about facebooks anti-Adblock on HN. The kind of people on HN who hate Facebook probably just don’t visit the site at all. Same with Reddit vs mastodon. Twitter vs threads. Quora vs ChatGPT.
Anti YouTubers seem unique in their constant whining yet reluctance to stop using what they hate.