You will find new ones you like or you will watch less.

Both is fine and you will survive.

And if less people consume content on YouTube, less creators will upload their stuff ONLY there.

The more incentives these companies create with their annoyances to the users the easier it is for alternatives to pop up.

I'm not that certain. The scraping in NewPipe has been broken and fixed a few times already. It could be a continually moving goalpost where the effort required from Google just isn't worth it considering the small userbase of NewPipe.

I also think that I'll discontinue watching YT once this happens. I simply see no point spending my time in an advertisement-infested shithole, and yet that perfectly describes YouTube when accessed as Google/Alphabet "expects" you to.

YouTube pays content creators poorly so most of them rely on direct sponsorship rather than YouTube rev share.

Also YouTube is a nightmare for content creators because you can have videos delisted for a few swear words and the process is random and unpredictable. They would benefit from more independence.

I wish content creators learned at least one lesson from big tech. If it isn't what butters your bread steal from push that work to community where you can, leverage opensource so you customize where you need to quickly. The fact that Nebula, Floatplane, CuriousityStream, Dropout, etc are all eating engineering cost to attempt to complete against Google, Disney, Netflix, Fox, Etc is wild to me.

Ehh maybe I'm the moron and the special special sauce isn't the content but the slightly different video format and selection screen they are paying some third party to work for them (or building in house).

Oh yeah, right after sending it I realized that my hopes with this comment are exclusive to our little FOSS bubble

I guess I'm going to start looking for content I like on Peertube. Barely anyone I watch is on alternative platforms, with the exception of HardwareUnboxed on Odysee, so we'll see what I can find.

This is why it is so super important to educate kids on media and tech literacy. They need to understand that YouTube is not the only source of videos, that you can not only buy your stuff on Amazon, and that Google is not the only place to search. They need to know that nothing is free, and that they are being monitored. And that there are choices.

I was super mad with our kid's school, because they only allowed the kids to have Microsoft office. It's not about the tools - they'll change by the time they graduate - but about the results.

I'd never expect channels this big to do it, because yeah, that's a whole lot of server load

I have hosted a PeerTube instance and surprisingly the storage is not a problem because it is very cheap these days.

About the bandwidth, if you enable PeerTube's p2p tech (WebTorrent) you can have a fair number of users streaming at the same time (but it's not great for privacy).

I have proposed a network of PeerTube instances to a group of youtubers each with tens to hundreds of thousands subscribers and the benefits/costs ratio looked pretty good to them. It didn't work for other reasons.

Notice that youtubers earn basically nothing from YouTube except those with millions of subscribers. They are on YouTube just for visibility but if enough creators move at the same time they can also move a good percentage of the userbase in my opinion.

And yet it's still ripped and on torrent sites. Not sure how they do it.

That reason is you haven't looked for it.

For the most used services, legacy support is actually respected by Google.

Google Search still works on Internet Explorer 6 for Windows 98 and XP.