I’ve been doing this stuff since dial-up BBS days of the 1980s, through Fidonet, and eventually everything Internet connected. are not free, especially at YouTube scale. I’m not defending Alphabet’s and Meta’s tracking, etc., and definitely not saying they are good companies, but the servers, storage, bandwidth, software development, power, cooling, network and server administrators, end user support, etc. My suggestion to you then is to host your own peertube instance then to host videos on and invite all of the content producers you like to use that peertube instance also. So far I completely banned Google and WhatsApp from my entire network. Google took WhatsApp from us, they took YouTube from us.

You get all moral on me and even suggest I go.Google. And now here you are accusing me of stealing. And Google takes the biggest stack of money anyway just by stealing and selling my private data without my permission (don’t tell me they don’t, because they do). Of course I understand that there are content creators that jumped in and make money. I create content on web sites (and forums too) and never ask a dime in return. And the effort I need to go through to undo it.

Just like I hate unsolicited newsletters from most any web shop I order from. I did not ask for this change and I don’t like it a bit. There is no alternative or separate YouTube “free upload free watching” section anymore. Let me explain: I started using the internet decades ago when people just created content without asking money in return. And I appreciate your effort of pointing that out. But I still get ads in YouTube hence this I really understand that the business model has changed over the years.

I have pfSense with pfBlocker set up and it works great for ads on websites. My LG oled TV for instance could benefit from that. To all: I actually meant using a central network device (firewall, NAS, pi) to serve ad blocking for the entire network, without the need to install adblocker software per device. First off a big thank you for all that have taken the time and effort to respond.

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