If they really want to fuck them, keep track of the ads they're forcing down people's throats and then go fuck those companies up somehow, preferably legally by boycotting them or something but if they make people mad enough, they'll just DDoS them off the net and otherwise gay op them.
The most likely outcome might be Google forcing users to sign in before being able to view any videos...which might slowly open the way for competing platforms. I am not optimistic about a viable alternative to YouTube rising anytime soon in terms of its userbase, but YouTube has been rubbing a lot of people the wrong way for years in terms of how it treats both its users and creators.
Aren't they doing that already? I haven't been able to watch youtube videos from my browser without having to sign in for quite a while
Yeah, I can't view anything in my browser since that big update a few weeks ago. Ended up on FreeTube, which is also having issues lately, when it tries to open a new video, a ton of errors toast up and then the video players normally.
Google's programmer sock-wearing trannies can only work for so long before they have to stop and visit the dilation stations on the company grounds.
That's odd, because BraveNewPipe is working fine for me. Are you using a VPN? I've had issues where Youtube blocks you if you're using some server locations.
Thank you for pinging me, I updated BraveNewPipe and it works now. I am a retard
I heard that both the NewPipe and Invidious teams are working on a big patch that will be released soon as it all seems to be related to the same 403 type error. They are still documenting the way that YouTube is enacting it.
I recently had my first experience with a screen asking me to sign in to prove I wasn't a bot when I tried viewing a video in Private Mode using Proton VPN. A refresh seemed to get rid of the login nag, but I suspect this may be something people see more of down the road and that refreshing eventually won't work.
H1B reform has been a talking point for almost 30 years now, give or take. The biggest issue is that Large Corporate America - Google Included - wants the cheap labor H1B provides and has enough influence to keep that pipeline flowing freely. The number of people quiet quitting and staying out of the workforce ever since covid also allows the companies to justify their claims of a talent shortage. Just like immigration reform, H1B/foreign worker reform is needed but will never happen in the current political environment.
I shall just suck up the ads.
