• nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      26 days ago

      Let’s just remove all video metadata including author. You just get video that is unskippable and you have to watch it (and ads) before getting a new video. Webcam required to track your eyeballs and the video will only play while you are looking at the screen.

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      26 days ago

      That’s their end goal: no choice whatsoever, you watch 30 minutes of ads, followed by the 30 second video the algorithm wants you to watch (which is also an ad), 30 more minutes of ads, and so on.

      And, since they also own chrome, you can’t go to any other page without first spending at least six hours watching youtube.