![]() The exploitation of “creators” whom you wish to financially reward.Impending shadowbanning/sabotage of Invidious hosts will reveal the full extent of that. YouTube’s attacks on third parties, which in turn limits choice.Lots of unwanted marketing junk, not limited to advertisements (more on that later).The censorship of topics/channels/videos you like.people who only ever “consume” videos but never create (or at least never upload) videos, the downsides of YouTube can be summed up as follows: There’s a disproportionate and asymmetric model of rewards. 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
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