With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn’t be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won’t be able to soon.
I’m already 90% done with YouTube since their discovery feature is totally broken. A feed with 40 videos, 25 of which I’ve already watched 5 that are right wing outrage porn and literally nothing I want to watch at all?
I have a few subscriptions that are on floatplane, nebula or peertube already that’s pretty much all I watch on YouTube since it’s so enshittified.
I’d happily pay for premium if yt would unfuck their suggestions, but if they decide to lock out adblock instead I’m totally gone.
This is such a problem for me. There needs to be a “remove from the feed because I’ve already watched it, but i’m still interested in this type of content” button.