if they outright forced us to stop day one there’d be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we’re like lambs to a slaughter

  • DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world
    83·
    3 years ago

    Get Freetube, it’s FOSSome, you don’t even need a Google account to subscribe. All content and history is local on your machine, it just pulls the feed from the channels you ask it to. No ads, no tracking, Linux client available, you can even skip sponsor chapters and download videos right from the native client app.