Unfortunately YouTube Premium doesn't solve any of the horrendous problems YouTube has. Using a third party client is the only thing that does.

The problem here is the lack of a current alternative. As others here have mentioned, peertube might be a future alternative, but I can not help but feel that only fairly ideological people like myself would be interested (in the sense of dropping youtube on privacy grounds). I can't see "normies" moving elsewhere. That said, maybe a good alternative doesn't require mass uptake. I mean Lemmy seem pretty cool, albeit I haven't been here very long at all (like a day lol, although I have lurked for sometime).

I feel good, that I have never depended on YT... I don't pay them, I don't watch ads, and I use other services too, and own my films and music... It's nice - especially when reading posts like this.

LOL this is insane we should switch to Rumble and other alternatives other wise we are fucked.

Just install uBO/use Brave and you don't need Premium.

😐

just buy adguard it supports multiple device, and can block twitch ads too.

Fuck YouTube. Only thing I still like about it is the ability to find how-to videos on it.

Of course, for the same reason streaming services block it. They don't want to risk account sharing.

This doesn't seem newsworthy but more along the lines of "yeah that makes sense."

Come on, that's why we have yt-dlp and yt-dlp GUI. Who even uses YouTube on the website anymore?

For me.

This is how we all give Boatracecrook the cold shoulder and leave. The more people they block the better.

Boat race, is cockney rhyming slang for face.

At the very minimum, to protect future generations and our grand children and their children from; the banal, brainless, brain dead, manipulative surveillance.

I have never used Boatracecrook.

I must admit that as a new user on Lemmy, I do take umbrage at all the links to Boatracecrook videos that people feel they need to share and promote.

I trust people to watch the video and give a short written description, not add a poxy link in the avatar image.

I have got caught out more than once clicking on an user supplied avatar and I have been taken to poxy Boatracecrook.

To be honest, I was under the impression that lemmy was different and did not engage in the anti-human practices of Boatracecrook.

I cannot understand why anyone watching a Boatracecrook video, then suddenly decides to add a link for Lemmy users.

Then manipulatively hides the link in the avatar of the post, when the link could be added to the main text body for all to see, and give people a choice if they click on it.

I can only assume this is about self promotion and not about supporting the Lemmy community.