It's all FOSS. Whoever gets doubts about the devs can check the source or have it checked by experts. They sell out or die? Switch to other frontends or forks. I'd never trust any dev blindly, but if I can choose between these ones and Google... well.
Switched to piped/invidious. There are even a few good apps like Libretube or Freetube. No need to waste time with scripts and stuff.
Good thing I'm running my LLMs locally on a heavily encrypted PC with no network capabilities at all. Only way to not have my data siphoned, be it by hackers or big tech.
First one I was thinking of even before my brain was acknowledging the orang utan.
I mean the ape... The one without the chihuahua carcass nailed to his scalp.
Time to dig out my old horrorpunk discs again.
This. The more popular it gets, the more people come, the more trolls and idiots are beneath them, the more toxic everything gets...
Advertisements and fake news will also skyrocket once the user bases are big enough to become adequate breeding grounds for them.
Makes sense. Best way to push even more product placements on us.
When I still used YouTube it recommended me crap I could hardly have cared less about or even things I actually disliked.
To me, Youtube was always synonymous for faulty algorithms.
I guess then we have to agree to disagree.