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As a consumer, you don't need an account to use it. I have a Google account for Android and Gmail but my YouTube account is deleted. I "subscribe" to channels w
by jasonkostempski 8y ago
As a consumer, you don't need an account to use it. I have a Google account for Android and Gmail but my YouTube account is deleted. I "subscribe" to channels with RSS. If producers make their content feed available elsewhere (and they should, even if it happens to only link to YouTube for now) I use that feed instead. If producers only publish to YouTube, that's really their dependency problem. You can download an store anything you find worthy of archiving. Use an ad blocker to avoid supporting the platform. Producers should be selling their own native ads if they need to make a living off the videos, like pod casters do.
- white-flame 8y agoI do notice a lot more youtubers having their own advertiser segments (usually for the same 3 or 4 services, though that's probably due to similarity of channels I watch), and of course Patreon is very popular. I "subscribe" to youtube channels with browser bookmarks. </old man yells at cloud>
- jasonkostempski 8y agoI highly suggest RSS my fellow elder. We haven't much time left. Rechecking bookmarks for new content and trying to remember if we've already watch something is a time-leech we cannot afford to feed.