Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?

skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• frittoBee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m also mostly de-Googled now. I’m not signed in anywhere and don’t use most of the google stuff. It wasn’t really that hard since there are great alternatives. But saying no to YouTube and all the nice channels I’m following is really hard.

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  • Cherry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The nice channels, those days are gone. The internet we knew has been destroyed or will be diminished to an annoying shadow pretty soon. If you had to put a % on what is now monitized what would it be?

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      what are you on about? there’s tons of amazing people on youtube

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      • Cherry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Then sign in and watch them. 😀

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The primitive technology guy is still going. Wish I could afford the land to try some of the things he does.

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For youtube just use yt-dlp and download them, can be behind a vpn when you do it. Im not sure if that affects the creator making money though.

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Try invidious.

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve started getting captcha every time I do a Google search. Not sure what that’s about but it’s made the decision to pursue alternatives easy.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    When you are forced to do captchas make sure you do them as badly as possible while appearing to be human!

    These fuckers weren’t even paying attention to the “precision vs. accuracy” concept introduced on the first lecture in the one science class they had to take. Make them pay for their ignorance.

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    • Hathaway@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How does one do this?

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Just pretend you are trying to bullshit what the objects you are identifying are as if you actually have no clue what you are supposed to be doing but you have learned basic ways to bullshit your way through. Imagine the captcha as the class you cared about LEAST in school and attempt to answer it as sloppily and half-assed as you can without getting kicked out of class.

        We were born for this calling my friend.

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  • tungsten5@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ive been using bing. Not a fan of microsoft but so far it hasnt been too bad

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