If the team is finding out that their job ends on the same day, it’s totally Google’s doing, and not the vendor company.

Google loves cheap, disposable workers, that why half of their workers are contractors.

Not really, they have a docker compose file ready to go, and it works without issue.

The more stuff they do to shoot themselves in the foot, the sooner something else comes in to replace youtube

I dusted off an old laptop, put debian on it, put an SSD and now I have my own invidious instance, among other services…

No ads, no throttling, no bullshit. Google is very welcome to suck it. I’d gladly stop using youtube, but there’s no competition.

I’ll never understand how Twitch became as big as a thing as it is.

You already answered that in your comment.

You want to watch videos, not livestreams. Of course a video will be better at being, you know, a video (nicely edited, in short format, etc). A livestream is different for many reasons, none of which interests you apparently.

Nothing wrong with that tbh. It’s just not for you.

It’s usable, but instances now deal with frequent rate-limits and you’ll see 429 errors quite often.

I thought elon was supposed to be smart

You forget that many simply don’t care, like me. I stopped using anything google for a reason. Their services are usually lower quality than alternatives, might get shut down tomorrow, paying them doesn’t stop your data from being milked, and they continually look for ways to make the internet worse. You’re supporting the biggest ads company here…

I pay for 3+ streaming services, and all of them offer me a better deal than yt. It’s not about paying for me. It’s simply not worth it for my low use of the platform. I only ever look at my 20 subscriptions and my watch later playlist. Until that goes away I will block ads.

I’m just waiting for the next platform to pop up, it’s gonna happen sooner or later and hopefully isn’t cancer…

Youtube is getting on cable tv levels of bad. On a regular ~10min video you will first deal with a few preroll ads and at least one is unskippable, then the creator will have a 2+ minute sponsor segment (I don’t mind those since they are usually well presented). There will also be multiple midroll ad spots.

Depending on video length, it’s gonna soon be literally more ad than video. They are still stealing and selling your data though, and also making the web worse for everyone with DRM shit.

Fuck. Google.

I had already migrated to Invidious since last year because I degoogled everything. Seems like now its time to look for real youtube alternatives.