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YouTube
YouTube (also JewTube { Lol jewtube.com actually exists. ~drummyfish} or just YT) is a huge, censored proprietary capitalist video consuming "website"/platform, since 2006 seized by the Google terrorist organization. It has become the monopoly "video content platform", everyone uploads his videos there and so everyone is forced to use that awful shitty site from time to time to view some tutorial or whatnot. YouTube is based on content consumerism, aggressive predatory marketing, copyright trolling, propaganda and general abuse of its useds -- it is financed from surveillance-powered ads as well as sponsor propaganda inserted into videos. The place is extremely toxic, radioactive and more dangerous than Chernobyl in terms of probability of acquiring brain cancer, the propagandists ("content creators") are unbelievably ugly abominations you must start to hate even from just seeing a video thumbnail. Alternatives to YouTube, such as bitchute, the "rightist" YouTube, never really caught on very much -- YouTube is sadly synonymous with online videos just as Google is synonymous with searching the web. This is of course extremely, extremely, extremely, extremely bad.
Just one of countless damages YouTube has done to society is establishing videos as standard medium of any form of communication and information storage -- back in the day Internet was mostly text-based, sometimes there was an image or video of course, but only when needed. Since YouTube's rise to fame a lot of information has just moved to videos, even that which suffer by this format, e.g. books, announcements, notes, presentations, tutorials, pure audio and so on. All of this bloat of course makes the information hard to index and search, store, process, view on weak devices, it wastes enormous amounts of bandwidth, computing power and so forth. Thanks YouTube.
{ https://www.vidlii.com seems alright though, at least as a curiosity. Anyway if you need to watch YouTube, do not use their website, it's shitty as hell and you will die of ad cancer, rather use something like invidious or youtube-dl. Here is an awesome hack I discovered to search only old videos on youtube! The new shit is just unwatchable, there's clickbait, sponsors, propaganda, SJW shit everywhere, thankfully you can just exclude any year from the search with with "-year" (at least for now), for example: https://yewtu.be/search?q=free+software+-2023+-2022+-2021+-2020+-2019+-2018+-2017+-2016+-2015+-2014+-2013+-2012+-2011+-2010+-2009&page=1&date=none&type=video&duration=none&sort=relevance. UPDATE: actually you can even just use before:YEAR in the search, TIL. Enjoy. ~drummyfish }
What are the alternatives to YouTube? We'll only leave a brief paragraph here for wannabe YouTube alternatives come and go faster than a zoomer changes genders. Best alternative to watching videos is reading books or watching clouds in the sky, but we'll stick to "watching videos on the Internet" here. Also bear in mind that if you have to watch YouTube, use alternative YouTube frontends, which are normally FOSS -- e.g. Invidious, piped, HookTube or FreeTube -- these let you access YouTube's videos via less bloated and more "privacy-friendly" interface, also filtering out ads and so on, more hardcore people use CLI tools such as youtube-dl to directy download the videos and watch them in native players. Likely the most notable FOSS alternative to YouTube is PeerTube, a federated P2P video platform, however for intended use it requires JavaScript (there is a way to download videos without JS but it's discouraged) and there are other issues that make it unusable (SJW censorship, videos load extremely slowly, ...). If you use PeerTube, don't use the lesbian instances, look up the uncensored ones. Mainstream proprietary alternative to YouTube is Vimeo, Bitchute is the "rightist" YouTube alternative (quite shitty TBH). Internet Archive has many video, especially old ones -- this is quite nice alternative. Vidlii is proprietary but oldschool site that tries to replicate old YouTube for the nostalgia, it has its own videos and small, dedicated community and very low censorship, it is pretty nice, with 360p videos and all; a site very similar to Vidlii it Bitview.
In November 2021 YouTube removed the dislike count on videos so as to make it impossible to express dislike or disagreement with their propaganda as people naturally started to dislike the exponentially skyrocketing shit and immorality of content corporations and SJWs started to force promote on YouTube (such as that infamous Lord of the Rings series with "afro american" dwarves that got like a billion dislikes lmao). In other words capitalism has made it to the stage of banning disagreement when people started to dislike the horse shit they're being force fed. This was met with a wave of universal criticism but of course YouTube told people to shut up and keep consuming that horse excrement -- of course zoomers are just brainless zombies dependent on YouTube like a street whore on heroin so they just accepted that recommendation. Orwell would definitely be happy to see this.
LMAO, as of 2022 YouTube has become the kingdom of clickbait. If you're living in the future and haven't seen this, you wouldn't believe how ridiculously fucked up it is, the platform is quite literally UNUSABLE (but it's still consumable and addictive to idiots so it works) -- ALL videos, including (and especially) those of the "serious" YouTubers (like mr. Veritasium), put absolutely misleading and downright made up lying thumbnails and titles, the videos have zero correlation with how they're presented. Every second a new video is uploaded titled "THE BIGGEST THING IN HISTORY OF EVER JUST HAPPANED" or "THIS NEW THING WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING FOREVER", then then next second another one etcetc., basically according to YouTube every second the most important thing in history is happening. Additionally the majority of thumbnails has to be occupied by some femoid's breasts, even "educational science videos", so as to force children to click it and masturbate (YouTube can really be seen as a soft porn site now). Everyone has to do it because everyone does it. The YouTube slave shitheads are constantly bothering you and trying to trick you into "audience interaction" because that's what the algorithm pushes them to do with threats of starvation ("I think 1 + 1 = 3, please let me know in the comments if you disagree"). YouTube is not a place to find something useful, it's a place mostly littered by traps set up to exploit you and you can only hope to maybe get something small back for letting yourself be raped (well, basically like in any other for profit place). In other words capitalism is once again working as expected. Yeah and also ALL videos include sponsored content, again even the "educational science videos" that children are forced to watch at schools etc. -- this is in addition to "normal" ads that randomly play during the videos.
A typical 2022 YouTube video now looks like this:
- title: THEY SAID A WOMAN COULDN'T CODE MINECRAFT IN 24 MICROSECONDS SO I PROVED THEM WRONG, ALSO LIFE FOUND ON MARS
- thumbnail: bikini MILF, nipples half showing, overly excited face as if having a stroke, pointing at aliens playing Minecraft
- content: 10 minutes of pre-video unskippable ads, tranny shows up urging you to buy premium membership on Nord VPN, 10 minutes of unskippable ads for tranny underwear, tranny opens up C# IDE that loads for 30 minutes, clicks the "generate game with AI" button, the computer crashes, "sorry for clickbait", 10 minutes of post video ads, "like, comment, give me money on patreon, subscribe, click the bell button, go to settings and check I want to see subscriptions I subscribe to, go to advanced setting and click I really really really want to see my subscriptions I really do and will suck your dick", next video loads without asking, volume sets itself to 300%, browser close button disappears
- reactions: trending video, 10 billion likes, dislikes not shown, comments disabled so that people can't warn others it's a waste of time
YouTube is also a copyright dictatorship, anyone can take down any video containing even the slightest clip from a video he uploaded, even if such use would legally be allowed under fair use and even if that user doesn't have any copyright to enforce (YouTube simply supposes that whoever uploads a video to their site first must have created that video as a whole and holds a godlike power over it), i.e. YouTube is de facto making its own copyright laws which are much more strict that they are in real life (which is hard to imagine but they managed to do it). In other words there is a corporation that makes laws which effectively are basically just like normal laws except they don't even pass any law making process, their evaluation doesn't pass through justice system (courts), and the sole purpose of these laws is to rape people for money that goes solely to pay for YouTube CEO's whores and private jets. A reader in the future probably won't believe it, but there are even people who say that "this is OK" because, quote, I shit you not, """they're a private company so they can do whatever they want""". Yes, such arguments have come out of some lifeform's mouth. That probably implies a negative IQ.