

With management changes this year, and moreover a more marketing-focused management team, the worst is yet to come and the devil is in the details.As of a few years ago, one must run proprietary JavaScript to merely open pages and see comments, not just to play videos or add a comment. YouTube relies on proprietary code, both at the server side and the client side, and Google is chasing or mowing down Free software alternatives.YouTube is owned by questionable company, subservient to an empire or country with imperial ambitions.In a nutshell, files (“protected content”) need to be decrypted on your own machine, based on the assumption you’re a “pirate”, and this harms the environment, raises your electricity bills etc. Double standards on uploads and downloads are part of this problem, as noted in the video above. A growing DRM creep (we covered this in previous parts), which will limit what Web browsers you can use.The exploitation of “creators” whom you wish to financially reward.

Impending shadowbanning/sabotage of Invidious hosts will reveal the full extent of that.

Without bothering to properly compensate the real workers, not those who receive a salary. That’s just how managers view it remember they don’t create videos, they just try to ‘monetise’ others’ hard work. To YouTube, the product on sale is the “audience” or the userbase. ‘Audiences’ is what Google/Alphabet might call them the customers/clients are advertisers/governments and what they pay for is indoctrination (changing people’s attitude, views, perceived needs or wants). It also spoke of the exploitative relationship between YouTube and “creators”, but today we focus on users (viewers) and what they stand to lose by staying on YouTube. THE previous part, which the video above covers and describes in passing, spoke about TikTok as an emerging/emergent competitor of YouTube (and its political masters, too). Summary: ‘Audiences’ and ‘creators’ are both harmed by YouTube, more so over time today we focus on what it means to be a spectator alone (read-only) in the world’s largest video hosting platform, which isn’t a public service but increasingly a great disservice, extracting “value” out of exploited serfs without compensating them
