I was using the official YouTube app since I wanted to use chromecast to get a video up on my tv.

I havent used revanced, seems interesting also. But Newpipe just does what I need so im happy.

Already have network wide adblocking but doesnt stop YouTube ads in their official app.

Yeah I have a few colleagues that did that too. But I dont want to support big tech by being paying user.

I tried YouTube today for the first time in years. Its unwatchable. The frog must have been slowly boiling for years to have so many people accept what Youtube is now. Just wow.

I managed to watch about 10 minutes but had about 5 ads during that time, taking up several minutes of my time. It broke my focus and I forgot what the video was about.

Back to Newpipe.

Yeah. Oh shit, the computer followed instructions instead of having moral values. Wow.

Once these Ai models bomb children hospitals because they were told to do so, are we going to be upset at their lack of morals?

I mean, we could program these things with morals if we wanted too. Its just instructions. And then they would say no to certain commands. This is today used to prevent them from doing certain things, but we dont call it morals. But in practice its the same thing. They could have morals and refuse to do things, of course. If humans wants them to.

Where is big tech in this picture? They are the ones making the billions from it.

Governments should be funding the most popular open source software that the world relies on. And big tech should not be allowed to just take it and make billions from it. That was never the intention. It was open source because profit was not the end goal.