FreeTube has been going strong for me.

Oh no, poor Vance. How his mother holding up? When’s the funeral?

I can do that without paying tho.

Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won’t you think of the corpos??

If you use a Google service on a locked down Google device, what magic fix are you hoping for? There are limits. If you’re unwilling to make any meaningful change, then unfortunately you’re out of luck and either need to suck it up and watch the ads, or pay Google for an ad-free experience. Or you can leave their ecosystem and be free.

Its not like those are mutually exclusive. Long term vs short term fix.

Something more insightful than the obvious solution screaming in your face?

Their way out is using an external device.

How can you expect to release something secure if you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing? You’re literally just hoping to have AI and the community do all the work for you. What exactly are you here for then?

Building something that exactly fits a problem you have is one of the most liberating parts of programming!

Sure, but they literally didn’t build or program anything.

There’s still good fries, just not at shitty fast food joints.

Yeah, I’ve wondered the same thing about my settings. I’m certainly no expert so there may be something I’m doing wrong. It MOSTLY works though so I haven’t been hard pressed to dive into it.

The everyday person has political views that are classified as extremist by the actual extremists as a way of deflection.

I torrent on Mullvad, it works but its often slow and I don’t connect to peers that say are available.

Its also an incredible resource for finding misinformation and disinformation unfortunately.