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Go to your favorite YT creator's channels and download important content! Educational content, lectures, nostalgic content. Anything and everything you have the storage for.
One day, it will be locked away behind paywalls, poisoned with ads, or just deleted entirely.
Part of preparing for war is stockpiling supplies. Buy bulk storage. An extra 2-4 TB hard drive can be bought for 100-200 dollars. It doesn't have to be fancy, get a friend or two to go in with you on it.
Download and save everything you value. Rip your physical media and save it, pirate the shows and movies you love. One day it will be locked away or stolen from you because the terms of service changed.
Please don't delay, I wish I had started years ago myself.
Just keep in mind that hard drives do not last forever. They'll last a few years of regular use, maybe up to a decade if you're lucky. Storing media on a hard drive is not like having a box of books in your basement, your kids aren't going to be able to use them in 40 years.
Eh, now days unless you're really beating them up, most HDDs will last at least 5-7 years.
You are right that people need to have multiple backups on different media, especially really important stuff.
It was only a matter of time before Google put their foot down and insisted that you can't have a good experience on YouTube. Its time is coming.
Adblockers can still mute and stop the user from seeing the ads with black screen (or fast forward). Advertisers will still be mad.
Yes ik they disable the video controls but the video is still served just like before, just that they inject ads into it.
Reminds me of this post: https://lemmy.world/post/16500440
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I guess no more ad-free experience in privacy-respecting clients. Well that sucks but let's hope it at least won't kill them completely
Idk what's DeArrow and I don't use SponsorBlock because it's not reliable for me lol. What is really good about LibreTube though is the privacy stuff and that it works fine on 8 years old phones. DEATH TO PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE!
