Remember when Google introduced text-only ads to replace flashing animated banners and pop-up ads popular at the time? I didn’t mind those and I didn’t need an adblocker.
Nowadays YouTube is the primary reason I have to use an adblocker. It is literally unusable with all the ads.
You don’t have to use YouTube
Woah never thought you’d get so many downvotes on frickin lemmy for pointing out the use of surveilance software is not requied.
Yeah, it got hot for a moment
You don’t even need a car. You can just walk. You also don’t really need a grocery store, you can just grow your own food.
Modern society hasn’t been about what we “need” for hundreds or thousands of years.
I don’t see your point. I am using a front end that feeds me YT content without ever opening the YT app that I actually disabled. You don’t have to use YouTube.
Which one do you use? I have a hard time finding something that works well, especially on mobile (iOS)
Edit: nvm, saw on another comment that it’s NewPipe
Haha, I understand now!
Once upon a time people would have thought it was crazy to try controlling how someone interacts with your content on the internet.
I don’t remember anyone asking if we were okay with changing that.
YouTube isn’t a necessity — and neither is the internet, really. We don’t need them to survive. That said, I do enjoy YouTube as a form of entertainment. I’ve tried alternatives like NewPipe and Invidious, but none of them work as smoothly as YouTube with ad blockers.
I use NewPipe, all YT links are redirected to NP app. It is flawless.
So you mean people dont have to use YTs native frontend?
First message sounded like you implied others could switch to peertube or something (which is an option but with tradeoffs)
Yeah, I sorta shortcuted my comment. Happens all the time