Reminds me of that Southpark episode, where all the adults are gone.

“Provider, provider…”

You’re probably correct on your assumption that Google also will lose something if they start banning accounts without warning.

You can also be certain that I, as well as other technically inclined persons, will try and get what they want through other means. A valid point.

Considering this, the only strategy I can see them using is some scare tactics. You will lose your Google account if you keep doing what you do, so give us money! This, however, will only work if they give people warnings, which they haven’t don’t yet.

Thank you for your input, much appreciated! I’ll stick to a VPN for now, as it doesn’t cost me anything. I’m just a cautious person.

I’m not paying everyone. Pretty much impossible. Here is my logic for what I’m doing on detail.

Netflix is 8 Euro a month here in Germany as a basic plan. I can share that with my girlfriend. They produce movies and then stream those to me. I use it quite often. I’m totally okay with what I’m getting for my money and pay happily.

Youtube is 12 Euro per month. I can’t share that plan with my girlfriend, as it would fuck up the algorithm. Youtube hosts videos but doesn’t produce content. I’m not happy with the value in getting.

Now I try to pay creators directly. Can I pay all of them? No. Can I be just? No. Is youtube just? Also no. Small creators get nothing. So I take my 5 euros and divide among creators. Next month a few others and so on. I can choose which ones, depending on how I feel about their content. I find a brilliant channel who helped me out with a project and who’s got patreon? Sure, why not? Last one here was DbTech, which I’m not subscribed to.

So the difference between income for content creators is Youtube Premium: 55 percent of 12 euros is 5,4 euros, My system: about 5 euros. The only difference being how the money is divided. I try to favor smaller channels.

In the end, I believe my system is superior, as gives me more control on where I spend my money. I only try to screw over Google, because they are greedy as fuck!

How is the bullshit. I take 5 bucks every month and use those for patreon. I cycle through the channels so everybody gets a bit. I only pay the lowest tier for one month, then cancel again. Next month, a few different creators…

One view with ads is worth in the area of a cent, most likely less. Most channels upload once or twice a months. If the lowest paying tier is a dollar, they just made 50 times what they would get for ad revenue.

Kagi was somewhat expensive, if I recall. 10 bucks for unlimited searches put me off, as I don’t have a lot of money right now…

It’s the other way round. I do pay for a VPN anyway and I donate via patron to support creators. A dollar here, a dollar there. It’s still cheaper than a subscription here in Germany and my favorite creators get a bigger payout. I’d be happy to pay for premium if it was something like 5 euros, but 12 a month.

Jup, that is precisely what I meant and why I advocate for people to be cautious, if they use their Google account for more things than just YouTube.

I know this is a possibility, but also a risk. The land where you purchased youtube premium doesn’t match your home address so Google notice. Do you use your primary account for this? Do you need a foreign credit card?

I have not and I’ll look into it tomorrow. Thanks!

I’m in the process of degoogeling my live. I’ve never used it much, but my phone and the apps that I’ve bought over the years are tied to my account. I still use the calendar and have been to lazy to switch. Google maps too is a big plus. I’ve already gotten rid of cloud storage, as I selfhost nextcloud.

I use airvpn, which is recommended now as mullvad got rid of port forwarding.

That would be the case, since tubearchivist requires no account and runs on my server, so no cookies as well.

I’ve simply copied what others did. There were a few guides which I’ve tried to aggregate as not to miss anything. I’ll look into it, thanks!

There also great Apps for knost, that I have on my phone and use offline. Useful Knots is what I use.

Exactly. The only reason why I’m waiting for NUC12 right now. As far as my limited knowledge goes, AMD is behind here. Correct me, if I’m wrong.

Same as you. Old AMD system with a Ryzen 2400, three hard drives and two ssds running open Media vault. The hard drives spin down after 30 minutes, as I only use them once or twice a day.

I really wanted to use this and set it up a while ago. Works great but in the end I had to deactivate it, because my nextcloud instance would cause too many false positives (404s and such) and I would ban my own up way too often.

This would be very much appreciated, if possible. I don’t know most of them and it would make reading these past easier for me.