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Fuck YouTube
YouTube had a good humble beginning before monetization fucked everything up. It was a bad idea to begin with. For now, best stick with piped and all the apps that use piped as backend. NewPipe and LibreTube. Want to support a creator? Go buy merch or something. Dont give Google a second of your time.
Wasn't YouTube unrelated to Google at first?
Yes, they bought it (in 2006). However, it wasn't what it is today, and IIRC it was "in the red" (losing money). It was in the red for years after Google bought it as well. There's not a lot of good information on this unfortunately with regard to the current state. The last update we had was in 2015 that YouTube wasn't making money https://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-for-youtube-1424897967
That's 9 years of operating at a loss, and probably the 9 years people think of most fondly... We were getting the service at a loss to Google.