Technology

Yes it is

Sort of true, except YouTube. I watch almost exclusively YouTube few hours every day. If it opens by mistake in a browser, it is totally unwatchable with ads inserted even in short videos. I hope reVanced will manage to avoid detection somehow, otherwise it is quite hopeless. Yes, I can pay for premium, but the app will be full of stupid crap and no gesture controls.

Getting off youtube is pretty difficult with no true alternative.

You forgot to add get off Android, which would also mean just going Apple. There is no good alternative there either.

YouTube is the internet for me. Of my internet usage over 95% is watching YouTube

Problem is, there's shitton of content that needs to be archived and moved from YouTube, if YouTube stops to exist then all tutorials and teaching videos and all previously produced content will be gone, people want this content, so only true solution is somehow archive all YouTube videos and move them from YouTube, until it's done, YouTube will have monopoly, and it's bad situation we've found ourselves in

That's a stupid point to make tbh, because the most important information, knowledge and entertainment is on their platforms in a quality and quantity that is unprecedented. Meaning you can try to avoid it, but from time to time you have to use google/gmaps/yt/...

And that's coming from me.. someone who degoogled their smartphone.

I can't get off of YouTube because there's 20+ creators that are like family to me.

Which is at least less than all the other big platforms are taking.

I googled. Isn't it 45% Youtube and 55% vid producer?

What about ReVanced? Should be safe, since it's just a modded version of the official YT app, right?

But they tried so hard...

Silence!

Don't tell the holy secret to the world!

They probably will eventually, but it's just not priority. Most people interact with YouTube via Chrome (or one of the 400,000 rebranded Chromimum browsers) or the YouTube app, both of which Google can more tightly control. Firefox, with it's smaller market share, just isn't worth chasing... yet.

Still dont know what the big deal is, libretube and freetube still work fine. Same with firefox and uBlock.

And I'm here for it. uBlock Origin, NewPipe, and Grayjay all work fine. If those stop working, I'll also stop using YouTube.

That's peertube, right? A slight problem is that a lot of the popular content is only on YouTube for the money. Better patronage or sponsoring systems would help with that. For ones not in it for the money, knowing there's a solid service with community would probably suffice.