The developers of Invidious, a privacy-respecting alternative front-end for YouTube, have received a cease-and-desist notice from YouTube’s legal department. The free and open source software, which provides a YouTube experience minus advertising and user tracking, has been instructed to shut down …

The length people go to not pay other people. This is why we can’t have nice things and why other services are doomed to fail. Nobody cares about alternatives like odysee as long as people prefer fighting with youtube and feel good doing it.

Could you please clarify what you’re talking about? It makes absolutely no sense to me and I do not understand it why it was a reply to my post.

[image] Kresimir: I do not understand it why it was a reply to my post. My bad. I wanted to address a few specific points and then decided for a more general statements instead. But I always forget that deleting a quote doesn’t automatically disconnect the mention/answer structure in discuss.…

[image] Schlaefer: The length people go to not pay other people The length people will go to to get paid is worst than those who wish not to pay. Google is pushing to move into your house to control you. I wont pay for that.

[image] thefrog: The length people will go to to get paid is worst than those who wish not to pay. Google is pushing to move into your house to control you. I wont pay for that. Yes, people like fancy things like food, shelter, and being able to pay for medical bills. So people creating conte…

[image] Schlaefer: Also google isn’t pushing anything, maybe not in the world your in but in this world they certainly are. [image] Google's trying to DRM the internet EndeavourOS pub I don t think google was even a thing back then was it? If it was I don t remember…

[image] Schlaefer: google isn’t pushing anything, everybody is free not to not consume I was going to buy an Oculus-2 VR headset until I found out I need to have a meta account, and an android device in order to set it up. Sure I can go without, but an Oculus is affordable. The others are too…

[image] Kresimir: I call it “sharing”, which is entirely appropriate. That s what they call it on rutrackerdotorg also.

What does Rossmann expect? You can invest an arbitrary amount of money into advertisement and make that money back plus profit? That’s not how it works. Otherwise everybody would just borrow money, “invest” it into advertisement and make some cash. I wouldn’t call it clown take, but it isn’t far of…

[image] Schlaefer: Otherwise everybody would just borrow money, “invest” it into advertisement and make some cash. btw, there were exactly such infinite-money bug for years on youtube, but that doesn’t matter really :rofl: And in case you haven’t noticed - Rossmann hasn’t expected anything, …