[whywhywhywhy]

> I hate to see youtube die, It is a wonderful archive for society

The actions of the past few weeks have proven it's a terrible archive for society. If there is anything you enjoy on there I'd suggest you archive it from there while you can because they'll be putting the same effort into blocking yt-dlp before the end of the year once people start taking advantage of that to bypass the ablock-block.

[wintermutestwin]

I agree that some of the content on YT is of great cultural and useful value.

The usual answer when the profit motive enshitifies something that is considered culturally valuable is to serve the public through a non profit organization instead of a publicly traded company.

I realize I am saying this on a forum created for technical folks who hope to win the startup lottery so I don’t expect much…