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HappySkullsplitter @lemmy.world

1w ago

No YouTube, I'm not turning off my VPN. Nice try Google

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Maybe I don't want "the best content".
- And if I did, why would I have come to YouTube?

Translated to English: To continue, turn off your VPN/Proxy. This will allow us to track you better and serve you personalized ads that make us more money while destroying your privacy.
- Otherwise there would be an option called 'Nah, thanks, I'm fine with suboptimal content'.

My ad blocker won't let me watch YouTube. It thinks it's an ad itself. Works for me, no ads

Youtube can locate deez nuts

After getting this shit for a while I just installed a Firefox extension called LibRedirect that whenever I click on a YouTube link it just sends me to an alternative (I have it configured to use invidious) instead.
Problem solved.

"""Best content""""

Grayjay... is the one that holds a solution for your problems...
- This stopped working for me a few months ago.
  
  Consider hitting the "update" buttons in the sources and main settings tab.

I have to turn off my VPN just to use Lemmy 😭
- Why? I've never had that happen here.
  
  I wish I knew why.

Had a similar issue with a singular video using Freetube. Had to download the video itself through ytdl-p in order to view it. Wasn't a total waste but wasn't a video I'd recommended either. There was zero chance I was gonna just skin and scalp my internet privacy and safety for that singular video.

You should feel flattered. They're saying that your private data is the best content.

To be fair: there may be licensing issues or geo blocked content which they are forbidden from serving you and must make a reasonable effort.
- Maybe they should say so then instead of pretending they're concerned they might not be able to serve "the best content".
  
  positivation
- Ah yes, but to be fair:
- Who is that fair to exactly?
- Those 'licensing issues' are a small part of the reason streaming, cable TV, and absolutely anything with any sort of intellectual property rights have become guarded by an iron curtain of shitfuck.
  Licensing at this point has become a pretense to declare war in court. Sidenote that copyright laws in general are severly outdated as well. I mean the DMCA itself was written in 1998 and hasn't been updated in any meaningful way since then.

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