[Caprinicus]

And with Uber, you can pick up and go to lyft if/when they treat you poorly, without completely losing an audience you spent years building

You might argue that the audience is YouTube’s and not yours, but in practice it doesn’t really work that way on the internet.

[sametmax]

For a decade we told you "careful, don't rely on giants like google, they are not your friends, they are centralized, they are a private for profit black box, if it's free you are the product, etc".

Now you wake up and say those investments of your years of work are in jeopardy ?

Google is just google. It's nature is clear from the beginning. Their business model is clear from the beginning. The pros and cons of using youtube and the potential future pitfall were known from the beginning.

And even after that, they demonstrating by their actions that you could have problems with them. Many times before today.

It's like complaining about your weight after years of drinking soda.

Soda is not the problem.