Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.
This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.
This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.
Download newpipe and never use YouTube again.
Can't be used on desktop
https://freetubeapp.io/
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Age restricted videos are a problem otherwise it's great. I have it on an android TV box.