I see a lot of people saying “but that’s how creators get paid”
And they’re not wrong. But they put themselves in this position when they uploaded their videos to servers owned by one of the worst corporations in the world, with massive privacy implications, and no alternatives.
I watch them on other platforms when they make it available.
Just disable the ads, crypto and telemetry and suddenly none of those things are a problem anymore, just like Firefox.
The options on Android aren’t much better
Literally every one of them is better, because none of them are running iOS. That’s my subjective opinion.
unless you go for some obscure manufacturer who won’t support the phone with updates 1 year after its life cycle.
Samsung and Google both support devices for 5 years now. Doesn’t matter how long Apple “supports” the software because they don’t support the hardware.
Why not both?
I think in reality the Chrome web browser is a huge threat to Internet freedom and should be a top priority.
They won’t. The vast majority aren’t using any kind of ad-blockers in the first place or Google would go out of business.
You have to blame YouTube and the people who click those garbage thumbnails
I mean yes but also it’s not that hard. Google is not trying to give you a great experience, they’re trying to drive clicks to ads.
That’s the exact opposite of what most people want from an app like this.