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And, come to think they had me convinced that this was not going to happen for few decades.

I think YouTube went down pretty fast and without fight. The ideological takeover of Facebook and Twitter raged on for few years. I think YouTube was taken over literally overnight. I remember being appreciative of YouTube just a few days back.

Guess, time to cancel my $15 Youtube Red Family membership. Ugh, I really hate ads on YouTube. And I was happy to give my $15 month over month. But, I can't fund Youtube anymore given what they are doing. $15 to Youtube, $10 to NetFlix, $10 to Amazon, with $35 a month, I can sponsor ton of content on Patreon that I like. My subscription list on YouTube is not 35 people long, I think it would work out.

Never ever I thought I would type these words... break up Google and Facebook and Amazon.

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"I really hate ads on YouTube."

Just use youtube-dl and you'll never see any ads.

I use an adblock (uBlock Origin I think or something similar), and never see ads on YouTube.

youtube-dl this and tell me if you see an ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE

I just tried and I saw one

That's a video of an ad, which is quite different from videos that aren't ads but have ads injected in to them by youtube.

If you want to watch videos of ads, of course you can do so. But if you want to avoid them you can do so as well, by using youtube-dl.

May I also suggest mpsyt(mps-youtube). GPL cli YouTube interface that will open your player of choice. I hardly use the web interface anymore.

I wish goblin would take off.

What's goblin?

Do you mean https://mediagoblin.org/, or something else?

Yep, I meant mediagoblin.

I have no idea what you're saying. YouTube was "taken over"? By whom?

If this news was what changed your opinion, you were simply uninformed; nothing has actually changed. YouTube had done the same more than two years ago[1], and that's very unlikely to be the first case.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/2wra0d/well...

https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-applauds-google-...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/1/16072840/youtube-placing-l...

From your first link, "[Google is] one of the founding members of ADL’s Anti-Cyberhate Working Group, established almost a decade ago".

Like I said, nothing significant has changed recently. They are just expanding what they were already doing.

It seems pretty conventional to say that "taking over" is the culmination of a gradual "expansion", no?

Expanding their actions. I think the ideology has been the same for a very long time.

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