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Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?

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[โ€“] Mkengine@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I only watch movie and game trailers on YouTube, so yes, it would not bother me if they would be bankrupt tomorrow.

[โ€“] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 2 years ago

I only primarily watch two channels on YouTube and while I would miss them I could get the content from articles that they reference anyway so it wouldn't kill me but I wouldn't particularly like it either.

[โ€“] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I could, but why would I? That makes no sense from a social perspective, if someone links me a video and we want to talk about it, I'll watch it. If a person whose content I want to see happens to release that on YouTube, I'll watch it.

Unless you meant it another way?

[โ€“] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Not really. Most of the content I watch is from there, from tech stuff to history and current news

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes hypothetically but only if the youtubers I actually care about have content elsewhere as well. Which is some but not many

[โ€“] Ilflish@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably one of the harder things that I could do. It's a replacement for TV so I could try and slot in TV but I think it would be frustrating to not have the copious amounts of content

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago

TV is simply not there. Some YouTube channels are about a topic that's so niche that there's nothing similar on TV.

[โ€“] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

No, not really

[โ€“] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 2 years ago

While I have revanced on my phone and smarttube on my chromecast, the last time I watched a youtube video for an extended amount of time was two month ago. I did open those apps a few weeks ago, but only to see if youtube finally blocks them. So yeah, I guess I can quit youtube cold turkey now.

[โ€“] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yes, will we do have Odysee and Rumble. But people say they're Alt-Right (whatever that means). So fuck it, I guess.

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