firefox can do the same with any other search engine, it has a search widget

sorry, but I think what you are looking for is platforms like Lemmy. it is not centralized, it is distributed. not peer to peer, sure, but

• since a lot of devices are not being online at the same time, mobile phones but even desktop PCs always go offline for some period of time, the direct communication wouldn’t really work with a lot of other users
• you would need to store much more dataon each of your devices, unless you’re the kind who doesn’t care about mindlessly deleting past conversations

did they also move the HS to the phone?

I only have Telegram and Matrix. SMS? To me that sounds to be a huge step back, even from Telegram

I don’t see it, probably it was removed again

They could still be compatible, though. it’s possible even today, to some degree

Any time on Linux, but the windows shells are unusable. And configuration databases are much more convoluted things on windows than text files

It’s not really fine, though. It’s much more sparse on information, and the animations slow you down because buttons are not clickable until the animation ended. And then there’s when the menu gets populated in chunks through a few seconds, don’t even try to click the button because it will jump away and you’ll click something else. No, this is not on an old machine: Ryzen system with SSD.

Nice screenshot, nobody will recognize by this what did they remove

I did not use Tor, just disallowed scripts

I’m interested, how that works?

One more step

Please complete the security check to access

And also to explicitly feed garbage when the useragent is that of the googlebot. And while we are at it, do the same with a few other UAs too. You know which I mean.

Of course, that may not be feasible for everyone, but I do know that my visitors are not coming from google.

Using another frontend shifts the data profile but it still exists and provides value to them.

I wouldn’t care if they would only keep aggregate statistics, not stats about individual users, and when watching through a public frontend my usage blends in with that of many other people.

Unfortunately that’s not an option. Youtube has not only host “fun” videos, but repair videos, learning materials and even university course learning materials, none of them to be found elsewhere.

The money is needed for funding the police to implement chat control’s and going dark’s enforcement.

Piped should be able to work if they implement invidious’s workaround. Unfortunately devs don’t seem to be active anymore :/

Unfortunately that fee won’t stop google’s endless thirst for data mining and it’s manipulation through “personalized recommendations”, and through ads on any other website and mobile apps.

But to be serious, this might be at actual risk to those who are logged in. They were locking out users of their whole google accounts for less, including their emails and the uploaded files to drive.

• Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.

That is the best part of it! A very welcome change! Basically the first step of becoming an independent creator, and to being able to abandon youtube for any of them.