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YouTube protest walkout Dec 10th-13th, 2020

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Gyrre:



Any law put forward by some shrieking "Won't somebody think of the children" should be heavily scrutinized as it's likely meant as a way to slip in tyrranical and draconian things.

N.N. Marf:
I walked out of YouTube a long time ago---never looked back. It was the video ads, I think. I'd like to know, whether using tools like invidious, or youtube-dl, which allow one to get the video content, without any advertisements, would qualify as `scab.'
Anyway, I think this raises a deeper concern, about how we rely on third-parties, who, in principle, should have absolute freedom over how they provide a service---that, due to our reliance on them, it becomes dangerous to let them that freedom. I remember long ago, there were many video-sharing sites, more-or-less level. If one of them did something like this, the others would still be there, independent of that tyrant.
But now it's mainly just YouTube. How did this monopolish status arise? One might argue that it's a natural monopoly. I think that's lazy. I'm inclined to consider it an accident of our inchoate techniques, rather than something inherent, that necessitated there coming to be only one service of a kind. One YouTube. One Facebook. One Twitter.
I think there's gotta be a way, for competition to be a stable property of computer services. A problem that needs to be technically solved. Hell if I know how, though. I'm not entirely sure how I came to the idea, that it can be technically solved. I'd like to think my memories of many competing instances of similar things, aren't fabrications. So the question would be, how to make competition inherent, next time. (Will there be a next time?)

Gyrre:
This one's between the utter horseshit that is COPPA (including draconian censorship), and their recent move to advertise and collect revenue on videos from non-partnered channels.

LTK:
Everything related to this is from 2019. No one has used this hashtag since then. What makes you think it's going to happen now?

sitnspin:
People watch YT without adblockers?

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