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Lately, I've been getting 403 errors in Newpipe after a video has been playing for about a minute. I think they're starting.

You apparently associate with a specific kind of boomer.

Remember, for every boomer that was a hippie, there were a whole bunch that weren't.

The really fucked up part about that situation is the "strip mall across the highway from her neighborhood" part.

Car-dependent urban design has really done a number on every generation since the Silent Generation.

It didn't load as the feudal lords who hate your property rights and think they're entitled to colonize your computer for their own benefit intended.

Donate to orgs like the EFF, Mozilla, and the FSF. Lobby your congressperson, your senators, and Biden to make the FTC to start doing its goddamn job again and enforce antitrust law.

The only real solution to this creeping megalomaniacal monopolistic behavior is legislative.

It's one of a sequence of Supreme Court decisions (starting with Dartmouth College v Woodward and culminating most recently with Citizens United) that have led us down this path of corporate dystopia. For the full background, read this:

https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/

No, it sounds like a good reason for anti-trust regulators to make an injunction to stop Google from doing it.

It's time for this fantasy bullshit notion that boycotts are worth a damn to end. In reality, it's nothing but pro-corporate propaganda designed to make people think they're "fighting the man" or whatever when they're actually completely ineffective.

Now, don't get me wrong: by all means, please feel free to quit using Google's shit! That's 100% a good thing and I fully encourage it! Just don't delude yourself into thinking it represents even the slightest shred of a solution to the systemic problem Google's anticompetitive strategies represent.