[sledgehammers]

Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to.

Alphabet Inc needs to be broken with antitrust. Youtube has to be a separate company.

What a massive failure of democracy that this hasn't happened already. Fuck FAANG.

[jsnell]

How is this rant relevant to the article? Are you suggesting that an independent YT would allow adblockers indefinitely?

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

It would mean you wouldn't need an 'only-do-evil' google account to watch YT with a subscription.

[badpun]

> Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to.

It's not neccessarily all locked behind - hopefully, a lot of the creators have local copies of the videos, which they can upload to a competitor, if need be.