With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn’t be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won’t be able to soon.
my current guess is: this problem will mostly fix itself
youtube-ads are ridiculous. I wouldn’t consume these as they are now. If I’m forced to use that site without sponsorblock and adblock, I’m tending to just never watching anything there.
So if NewPipe/Sponsorblock (and of course NewPipe+Sponsorblock) are gone, then I won’t use that shit anymore and don’t feel any pain.
Same as with reddit. The last weeks I visited when pointed to reddit by some search enigne, but not out of “I could browse it for fun”. I didn’t miss anything. Twitter? Not even trying to visit that shithole anymore, since most links are unreadable anyways.
If platforms are closing down, they will lose my interactions. More free time for me!
this is exactly my thought. these things are not essential for living. I will use them as long as they provide some fun. if they don’t, too bad for them.
The problem is that the content creators that I like are all on YouTube and nowhere else. There is no alternative.
You will find new ones you like or you will watch less.
Both is fine and you will survive.
And if less people consume content on YouTube, less creators will upload their stuff ONLY there.
The more incentives these companies create with their annoyances to the users the easier it is for alternatives to pop up.
I’ve seen a few familiar faces on Thorium. Smart content creators will start putting their eggs in multiple baskets.