Thanks.

Can’t blame em for trying to win the cat/mouse game of adblocking.

IDK; I blame them.

YouTube has become part of the world's social infrastructure. In a way, it is the town square.

Frankly it should be publicly owned.

As it says, several countries already gave in

It's because they need you to have all the spyware installed.

Collecting all your data is part of their business model now

Personally, I always deleted and re-created accounts after a year at most. Still have my current but I've hardly used it since migrating.

Yeah, specifically threads/posts though, I mean. Since if you don't up- or downvote them, they persist forever.

Please step through this portal

No, they're trying to force them into their app.

And they removed my comments among others, for calling the Chinese state a colonial and imperialist state.

You're going to need a lot more of those to live up to the great Reactionary Counter-Revolutionaries so widely admired by tankies.

I have to hope that main instances will stop federating Lemmygrad at some point. There's no place, IMO, for genocide denial/affirmation and authoritarian extremism on platforms like these. Or any platforms.

Edit: Seems this is unfortunately unlikely as the lemmy.ml instance appears to be moderated by a genocide denier and authoritarian.

I quite like that Beecaw doesn't federate the Tankies.

I don't really need a genocide denying group ofauthoritarians in my face first thing in the morning.