Not if you're into music or you work in the industry (venues, producing, etc..): everything is on YouTube and Spotify, light years ahead of places like SoundCloud, Beatport, etc
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I only go on YouTube about once a month and I use it exclusively with either Newpipe or heavily modified on my PC. I mostly use it to watch trailers of games I am interested in, so I think that I would not be really affected.
I only primarily watch two channels on YouTube and while I would miss them I could get the content from articles that they reference anyway so it wouldn't kill me but I wouldn't particularly like it either.
There are a lot of great creators on YouTube, and I would definitely miss their videos. But if YT gets much worse (and it's getting worse by the day), I can live without it.
I only watch movie and game trailers on YouTube, so yes, it would not bother me if they would be bankrupt tomorrow.
I probably could if i had to, thatβs what i tell myself at least. For now though itβs my primary source of entertainment.
Yes hypothetically but only if the youtubers I actually care about have content elsewhere as well. Which is some but not many
While I have revanced on my phone and smarttube on my chromecast, the last time I watched a youtube video for an extended amount of time was two month ago. I did open those apps a few weeks ago, but only to see if youtube finally blocks them. So yeah, I guess I can quit youtube cold turkey now.
Not really. Most of the content I watch is from there, from tech stuff to history and current news
Probably one of the harder things that I could do. It's a replacement for TV so I could try and slot in TV but I think it would be frustrating to not have the copious amounts of content
TV is simply not there. Some YouTube channels are about a topic that's so niche that there's nothing similar on TV.