I started using PipePipe, which is a fork of NewPipe that allows for signing into a Google account to authenticate.
I create dummy Google accounts using an old Android phone, as that doesn't require a phone number.
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The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.
It's not difficult to enforce regulations on car companies, but they provide bribes to politicians.
Pork riders? In this congress? Unheard of!
Hopefully Valve will decide to release their Ibex soon. I do like that this is a split controller, but the ergonomics don't look great compared to the leaked Ibex image.
This is on purpose. Republicans want all of government to fail so that they and their rich friends can buy everything up and privatize it.
As is tradition
I'm down for the entire government stepping down.
And they won't be able to if they never had the power (money in capitalism) to do so to begin with.
"Try" is the key word here. It only matters if anyone succeeds.
The "bigger systems" pre-corporate internet (and somewhat in the transition) were sometimes fairly large forums dedicated to one niche (sometimes multiple, but in the same general field). Once Reddit specifically came along after YouTube/Google laid the groundwork for the corporatization of the Internet, it centralized basically every forum to one website. Now even today, forums still exist, but it's nowhere near what they once were.
That's also not to mention sites like Geocities allowing basically everyone to have their own website (which of course, is another version of centralization, but with much more control given to its users).
And it's not like corporations didn't try to take control of the internet before 2005/2006. Just look at AOL in the 90s for a prime example, along with Flash, ActiveX/Internet Explorer, Quicktime/Realplayer browser plugins for video, etc.
Without capitalism, we would still see the internet grow, as even in the late 90s, it felt as if you were being left behind in society if you didn't have an internet connection, but the way in which it grew would look much more akin to how it looked in the 90s and early 2000s.
The internet sure was far from perfect back then, but it was ours'.
Same thing they've always done: nothing.
IIRC Revanced uses its own microG fork.
The original YouTube app that it's pafching is obviously still proprietary, but all patches and the patcher are open source.