After going nuclear against ad blockers, at some point google is going to introduce a new “feature” where YouTube uses AI with your phone’s camera to automatically pause videos when you look away from your phone.

Then they’ll make it so you have to buy a subscription to turn it off during ads.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

writers of black mirror's 15 million merits laughing crying maniacally in the distance

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Me if that happens:

jk, i barely use YT as it is. I'm waiting for the YT ToS update that causes a mass migration to peertube

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea, that mass migration is not something I see happening...

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I would say there's been a mass migration from Twitter to Mastodon and from Reddit to Lemmy. The current numbers are still a small fraction of the original services, but the federated services have reached a critical mass where they now offer comparable value. YouTube hasn't been ubiquitous for that long and it's already pretty enshittified. I see a lot of people who are fed up with it and looking for an alternative. The peertube platform is there, I think with more people and content and it'll join the ranks.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, don't give them ideas.

[–] Maeve@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Tbh I figured they have bots crawling social media to find out what people are using to avoid their annoying, intrusive, abusive practices and use that to get ever more obnoxious.