I’m sure they are working on a youtube messaging app behind the scenes.

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    We need better alternatives

    Also YT premium is not a good solution as it does nothing for privacy

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      Video is nearly impossible to host in a sustainable way. The bandwidth usage is among the most expensive things you can host. The only way you’re getting something better than YouTube is if it’s tax funded somehow.

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        Public libraries should host the peoples internet. As a service, not to generate tax dollars, not to break even.

        Jumping from platform to platform is just delaying the enshitification.

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      Also YT premium is not a good solution as it does nothing for privacy

      Neither is accessing any Google service in the first place, ReVanced or not.

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          Using third party clients does. Think invidious or piped with apps like Libretube

          It requires a proxy (Piped acts as proxy). A 3rd party client in itself doesm not because the video files are still streamed off Google servers.

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              Still good for privacy

              No, non-proxied clients don’t do shit for privacy. Accessing the video streams directly off Google servers is enough to be tracked,

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                But there isn’t any non-free code involved so all they have is your IP address at the time and what video you watched. That’s it.

                Not as great as a public proxy but it is way better than using the proprietary spyware

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      We need better alternatives

      We’d need a quantum leap in storage and bandwidth first - orders of magnitude better, if we want competing to be financially sane 😮‍💨

      Maybe when Google is (hopefully eventually) shattered into a million pieces by some US judge, YouTube could be splintered into several smaller companies, each with some portion of the infrastructure and channels/videos - thus forcing competition. Vaguely similar to the Bell divestiture.