Notably, Youtube does not consider exploiting children for profit harmful.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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Because there is profit in child exploitation.
Harmful is just code for "threatens the bottom line of multibillion dollar companies". There is no relation to anything that matters to real people.
I made a very similar joke like this on Reddit, except it was about Waymo, and Reddit issued a warning against my account threatening a permanent ban.
Let them. Trust me, you'll feel much better
Everyone who is capable of hosting a peertube instance should do so, even if it's just to host your own content. I know, "it will never replace youtube" but if as many people as possible use it and share bandwidth between each other we will at least have SOMETHING in terms of a youtube alternative.
Maybe stop relying on fucking youtube?
Who, Jeff? He made a whole video a while back about how he doesn't rely on YouTube, and is also on Floatplane. However, he acknowledges that a lot of viewers can't afford a subscription service, and YT has a massive reach, so he still uploads there, too.
Are you suggesting that a guide on how to leave youtube should be elsewhere?
Thats like requiring to pass an exam to get access to the textbook.
Gotta preach where the choir is.
JG can also be found on Floatplane.
What about Peertube?
I'm a fan of PeerTube, but it's.. rough. Discoverability is subpar and many instances are bandwidth constrained. Video streaming is still a bulk-hosting game unfortunately.
Not to mention if you primarily watch videos on your TV you're out of luck.
you say in the video that you use this setup to watch YouTube. I love watching YouTube with Kodi as it shows no ads. I guess they don't love that.
I'm not saying that justifies the strike, but it might be connected
I love watching YouTube with Kodi as it shows no ads. I guess they don’t love that.
This scene from A Clockwork Orange is how I view Google's attitude of entitlement when it comes to exposing people to ads.
No sir, you don't have the freedom to decide what gets displayed on your screens and even if you don't block ads, you must not ignore them or put the volume on mute while they play.
Are those ads promoting scams? Are those ads delivering malware to your computer? Stiff shit buddy! You must view the ads.
Didn't they recently greenlight adblocker advertising?
The video is up again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hFas54xFtg
But at some point, he shows he's moving some files to LibreELEC, and he has a folder called "Chernobyl" - how can that possibly be legal, if the folder actually contains files with the HBO show of the same name? Just asking because I'm curious 😊
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)
It was released on DVD and Blu-ray, if he purchased the disc and ripped it to his media, and hasn't shared those files with anyone, then it is legal, as an exception to copyright in the US, where Jeff and Google are both based.
Jeff has stated on multiple occasions that he purchases and rips his media, and does not use piracy.
Also like… you can legally just name your file wtf ever you want, I can make a folder full of pics of my dogs and name it “Chernobyl” it’s not illegal to use a word to name a file
Ah - didn't know it had been released on physical media.
It is probably just a video he's making about how to self-host a 3GW nuclear power station, so that you can self-host a hundred million raspberry pi cluster.
You don't know the exact content of the files. He did not show those vidoeclips. I dont know if you can buy that or not. Sure it can be indication but in general you dont know as it varies between video to video if it is possible to buy.
This kind of crap is driving popular creators, like Geerling, to move to other places. YT / Alphabet has lost the plot.
I tried a couple of other platforms but I keep running into a moderation issue where the other platforms market to the sort of people who would be permanently banned from YouTube.
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Sue YouTube. They won't change meaningfully until forced to.
I think what you mean to say is that we should be pressuring public officials to try to bust up Google's monopoly on many things. And we are doing that, and it is showing some progress. But there is much more work to be done.
Sue for defamation that Youtube are alleging he is promoting criminal activity of piracy.
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“how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content.”
In the future, public domain media will be banned for harming corporate profits.
In the 1970s/80s, the corporations just taxed blank media - because it was obviously used to pirate their warez.
70s? ~~My government~~ the private for-profit corporation tasked by my government to manage copyrights, every year still steals from everyone millions of euro "because that phone can be used to watch pirated content"
We pay 7 euro on each smartphone, 7.50 on each USB drive, up to 18 euro on each internal drive (sata or name, but under 160gb is free) and products are castrated with regional firmware because if it's just a TV then it's 4 euro tax, but if it allows recording it's the 5% of MSRP
7.50 on each USB drive
Ouch!
It depends by the size (smaller is less taxed), but the law is old and it's exempt only if under 1gb
Pretty sure you also had to pay royalties fees for radio/Internet radio regardless of where or not you played their music.
And still do for live performance by cover bands.
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They are so pissed that we dare own anything. Fuck corpos.
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