I really wish PeerTube would take off, or any other alternative.
I tried to use it a few times but it’s truly god awful. Both performance-wise and in terms of discoverability.
Nebula is pretty legit but you won’t be able to find everything you want to watch there.
You can’t really monetize PeerTube though, so you’re never going to get full time creators there. Media distribution has always been a choke point. Always will be. Short of a non-profit foundation and a unionized creators guild joining forces to operate a decentralized subscription video platform, you’re never going to have a real alternative. I mean… there’s Nebula which is basically that, but who goes to Nebula, it’s full of lefties and educators and theatre people.
They could still get sponsors and have “ads” during the stream. Though most already do that in addition to YouTube monetization.
You can’t really monetize PeerTube
Lots of channels have a link to their Patreon or a tip jar; lots do live reads.
Sure, but then you’re still bringing a for-profit company into the mix. PeerTube is your loss-leader and Patreon is your main platform.
I sometimes feel bad for bypassing all this, then I see the in video sponsors they all have. So now I run Sponsorblock…
Removed by mod
People pay for YouTube premium?!?!
I do for years and I think it’s great value
Be a pirate
It wasn’t really worth it before, now it’s even less worth it?
Revanced works perfectly fine on Android and on desktop I use an adblocker.
YouTube morphed
Smarttubenext on nvidia shield
Revanced youtube on android phones
Ublockorigin on browsers
No more ads.
I’ve never had revanced last more than a week. Bad luck i suspect. Newpipe->greyjay->brave
Three seperate active dev teams fighting off the bastards.
I don’t want to use brave, but it’s never been down for me, so it’s weapon of last resort.
I am a bit worried that, with Google’s upcoming changes, they’ll be a walled garden within a year.
Ublock on firefox mobile seems to work well for youtube, never had that break
What is wrong with brave?
Brave is just Google but one step removed and a shitty pr team. Brave has no more power to stop Google then you or me. The only upside to brave is you get to enjoy features a little bit longer because brave doesn’t update to new versions that remove them.
Eventually they have to give in just like every other chrome browser. Because brave isn’t an actual web browser. It’s just a chrome skin with a plugin package.
This is a bit of an overstatement. Brave has competent software developers - they created their Rust-based content blocker, and kept it as open-source. It’s one of the most powerful blocking mechanisms, often working in places where even the rightfully praised uBlock Origin doesn’t (good examples are in YouTube itself last year when they’ve made a big attempt to stop adblocking by changing the underlying mechanism of how ads are being served in videos).
They were perfectly capable of developing advanced software before AI coding agents were a thing. They’re skilled and delivering.
I stopped paying when they started to openly support Israel. I’m fine with paying a service to maintain itself and Youtube is storing a LOT of high quality video, but giving away millions worth of support to a genocidal state is not something a streaming service’s operating costs should include sooooo fuck ‘em. Ads suck, but I can live with them.
The only way to stop price increase is unsubscribing, Google need to know it’s a loss, not a win.
