I stopped using YouTube. It’s not hard. Especially when you come to terms with the fact that every video you watch is just telling them you’re okay with what they do.
We seem to have no problem boycotting things we either don’t use, or can easily replace. Don’t like a store? There’s plenty others that will be happy to sell you the exact same items….
But when it comes to actually boycotting significant things in our lives because they are toxic?
Naaaah…
A lack of alternatives is not an excuse to continue using something you don’t like. I honestly don’t get the culture around all the YouTube hate.
I don’t use shit that I don’t like. I don’t support things that I don’t agree with the practices of. YouTube treats its users and creators like shit. Know what?
They’ll continue to do so as long as people keep using their platform. That’s how it goes. It’s not going to change. And every workaround that is created, will get squashed.
People that are always complaining about it, and then continuing to use it just blows my mind. I’ll never understand it- even when people try and justify it. And that there are no alternatives basically just says that you’re willing to eat whatever shit they serve you, so long as you get your fix.
It’s an addiction at this point. You’re willfully enduring shit you hate so you can have moments of shit you enjoy.
(Not directed at you personally, just those that don’t see what’s going on)
I generally don’t use rhings that I hate, regardless.
Why do people still use YouTube if they hate it so much?
Why do people still use YouTube if they hate it so much?
EDIT: Downvoted for simply asking a question lol! Every time a post or article is shared that shows how YouTube is a massive shitshow, everyone is quick to complain and whine about how awful it is.
But the moment you offer the option to just stop using it- they turn on you. Look at these comments justifying being shit on.
“But but but…. Muh videos!l”
When your impulses are stronger than your ability to stop, it’s called an addiction. And for the record, life before YouTube was not hard. Maybe give it a try.
At three a lot of 6 year olds playing D&D??
I miss the person I was prior to having read this.
To degoogle from google: the company that makes android phones.
It is not now, nor ever will be anything like the way it’s depicted in sci-fi fantasy. We are never going to achieve anything close to a Star Trek-level of symbiosis with tech. Everything we ever do will be weaponized, and what can’t be turned on our adversaries and ultimately ourselves, will be used to make the less intelligent even more-so.
It’s going to drain our last vestige of creativity as it runs headlong through our every culture, and in its wake will be the unmotivated remains of what passion for the arts we once had, until one day- we will be nothing more than animals walking in and out of rooms.
Trust that nothing good lies that way.
There’s a reason everyone and their sister are ditching Google apps/products.
The last Windows OS I used was XP. I miss those days.
lol… so again, it seems our ability to stand behind our convictions is directly proportional to how addicted to said thing we are.
If you truly hate YouTube, you’d just stop using it. It’s pretty easy. Go without. I promise it doesn’t hurt.