FUck’n hell I hate Youtube now.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It pauses videos as you watch them every couple of minutes if you use an ad blocker 🤦‍♂️ Very frustrating 🤯

@movq@www.uninformativ.de that’s some wishful thinking. 😅 Sadly, it ain’t.

@bender@twtxt.net I’m certainly watching Youtube far less than I use to. 😢

@prologic@twtxt.net I believe it. I don’t watch YT at all. Yet, it is extremely popular. It is the go to for my 78 years old father-in-law to learn how to repair all kind of things. Kids watch gamers in it, and instructive videos (science, tech, history, etc.). It has little, to no competition.

It really does need viable competition. It’s a difficult one though, because it has by virtue of it being of the best early video sites in town and subsequent popularity, an absolute treasure trove of content, as bender says. But all owned by now what is a jackass company that loves being a monopoly.

Sadly the only way it changes is the people that post content on there move it all to other viable places, old and new, like mass migration. I don’t see how that happens, especially when content creators don’t want to lose the ad-revenue. But hopefully something gives eventually.