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Then don't. Noone is forcing you. Just like noone is forcing you to watch Hulu or BBC.

• piva00 3y ago
  No one is forcing me except there's no other place on the internet to find educational content about some of my hobbies. I don't have a choice to go somewhere else to watch them and learn (and for some, not even read, it's mostly in video tutorial form); they are exclusively on YouTube because there's no other place to upload them to be syndicated in a discoverable way... Give them an open standard for that and there will probably be competition so I can move away from YouTube. You are either being extremely naive about the state of the internet in 2024, or do not use YouTube for the content I do, or are just being obtuse to try to make a point. "No one is forcing you" is a non-sequitur, it's a thought-terminating cliche that does not work when platforms have taken over and fenced off huge parts of the internet, c'mon. I'd love to avoid YouTube if there was another option, there simply isn't. Comparing YouTube with Hulu and BBC is... Just stupid. What do these services have in common apart from "they display videos"? Please, read this: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/ https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/