• sentientity@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    It’s excellent that alternatives and ad blockers do exist but we need regulatory action to hold companies accountable for things that are designed to worsen user experience to pressure people into paying. It’s also a serious accessibility issue, to increasingly have everything be bright and loud and motion filled and unpausable all the time. This trend goes beyond YouTube and it sucks, we need to regulate this nonsense.

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      4 hours ago

      What a weird downslope of a take that will obviously result in authoritarian government power expansion and futher censorship.

      Just stop using it and support alternatives that dont do it. Have some self control.

      • Cyteseer@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        Do you think regulations are just blanket authoritarian actions. Sometimes we need government intervention to ensure and protect people’s rights.

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        13 minutes ago

        Regulating capitalism = authoritarianism. What a weird take. Regulating capitalism =/= abolishing capitalism, this I can understand. But your take… wow.

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        3 hours ago

        Name a single viable alternative to YouTube at this point in time. Alternative frontends don’t count, since they still rely on YouTube to work. None of the creators I watch upload anywhere else.

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        3 hours ago

        People always say shit like this as if people don’t have a multitude of different life circumstances that affect and coerce how they interact with technology. That’s just how capitalism works. It’s not a matter of willpower. Privacy Bootstraps Theory is unhelpful. Being able to completely opt out of entrenched tech monopolies is a privilege. It’s great that you can do that, not everybody can.