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I wasn’t siding with adblockers over custom frontends, both make youtube just ever so slightly bearable to use so people don’t revolt and move into alternatives, like taking painkillers to alleviate the symptoms of poisoning instead of taking an antidote.
That's what I meant. Do you think adblockers do more harm than good too?
No hidden agenda, no trick question. I'm just curious.
I would agree with custom frontends directing traffic to the shitty platform longer is a bad thing.
At the same time though, I don't feel the same about adblockers (not only wrt youtube but any site), even though the very same argument can be made.
I don't have a rational answer as to why, but maybe you feel different or have a new take I'm not seeing.
I have a feeling why that could be.
In a addition to the arguments that also apply to adblockers, custom frontends simply take the oxygen out of the room.
Attention, development, donations etc. that could go towards decentralized platforms get burned with the sole purpose of playing catch up with pointless breaking changes from Google.
So I think it’s fair to say that adblockers are less bad than alternative frontends given their generic nature. And besides, ads aren’t the only annoyance YouTube has that customers frontends workaround.
I use UblockOrigin on Firefox for lappy and works well but where Tubular wins is you dont need to be signed in to a goog account. And can still get