YouTube? Chrome? uBlock? Firefox? What's all this fuss about? Just avoid the youtube.com domain like pest, period. Set up a Piped instance or use your favouri

YouTube? Chrome? uBlock? Firefox? What's all this fuss about? Just avoid the youtube.com domain like pest, period. Set up a Piped instance or use your favourite one. You even get your playlists and subscriptions over RSS feeds instead of using Google's stinky, unstandardized and limited APIs, how cool is that? And wire it to Platypush + yt-dlp if you want the ability to scrape the media URL and cast it wherever you like. If you still go directly to youtube.com to consume videos, without even using a Piped proxy as a digital condom, then it's your own fault. Ad blockers can only do that much against overtly hostile businesses that have enough engineering resources to invest in their overtly hostile practices. What else is Google supposed to do to tell you that you can't trust them with anything? Is Sundar Pichai supposed to wear an evil mask like a Marvel villain before you understand that that company and whatever it touches is rotten and morally bankrupt to its core, that the only thing that prevents them from turning their products into big billboards with zero added value is the backlash from their own users, and that they're trying to find a sweet spot where they can enshittify their user experience to a point where they maximize the money they make out of data collection and ads, but without pushing too much to the point that too many users leave the platform? The only way out is for EVERYONE to STOP sending a single direct byte to youtube.com. Pirate the shit out of them. And I honestly don't give a f*k anymore about hurting the creators that are still on YouTube. If you're a creator still publishing videos on that sewage, even if so many alternatives are available today, then you're part of the problem, and I no longer care if you lose your revenue.