If you can’t migrate something and must therefore keep it, if I may suggest, keep it logged in to some old phone with busted battery you only access sporadically.

Post sounds either like an ad piece, the bullet points of a sales pitch, or a LLM summary.

Maybe faking the user agent would help? There are extensions for reporting to sites you are using different browsers.

Alternatively, if you don’t want the browser to monitor everything in the PC, maybe install on a virtual machine?

Also not sending to a server, but an USB to OTG adapter with a plain pendrive could be an option?

Proton and Tutamail are both nice imo.

Agreed.

Some also argue dislikes are used for censoring, but I’d conter-argue that dissidence is a form of opinion. If people are using the tool illegitimately, it doesn’t make the tool itself illegitimate. Rather, investigating suspicious behaviour, of which there are tools one can use on Youtube, should be the way.

And I’d further say the removal hurts not just the content creators, but their followers too. If the creator uses likes ratio as a quality assurance metric, or to know what they should or shouldn’t focus on, the lack of the metric will make the service he/she provides worsen, and by extension the experience of their followers.

I’d say Youtube is a case of lack of competition making an oligopoly. And sadly for quite a few matters, it’s still the “least worse” option.

Still, I’d urge to people, though I know it’s an uphill battle, to at least keep alternatives at hand.

I think they’re going for the former in slow steps, so the impact is not as quickly noticed.

From what I played around with it a few years back, iirc AutoHotKey scripts can be converted to AutoKey. However, AHK uses its own scripting language, and AutoKey uses Python.

For you to remember, perhaps not needed. As Reannlegge mentioned, if a banking or payment service you use allow setting recurring payments, that’s a good option. Also if the developer or developers are on platforms that allow recurring payments, like Patreon, it’s also interesting.

For reminding others, when talking about such projects, include a reminder to support every now and then, though avoid spamming or speaking only very sporadically.

Full sentence translators? Only ones that come to mind are LibreTranslate, plus if you’d like to try, the instance from Mastodon.Uno’s group since the LibreTranslate dev team’s official instance requires an API key. Also maybe local LLMs if you trust they won’t go rogue and connect to open wifis like LG TVs do, or if you can ensure they won’t escape containment.

Furthermore, if you just need to translate individual words or some times smaller expressions, there’s disc-based translators and dictionaries though they usually require older systems, maybe Google Play ones (specially paid ones) if you keep them in an offline VM with Vanilla Android, QuickDic on F-Droid, etc. For CD and offline dictionaries, I collect them, so I can also comment on specific ones or on specific language combos.

I feel like there’s an additional intent there. Short bursts of dopamine in quick succession are a pretty addicting drug, and thus making people more distracted and sedated, and if they don’t have ADHD, they may get the same focus troubles people with ADHD have.

If you must consume those, I strongly advise to at least redirect to places autoplay or replay isn’t triggered. In Youtube’s case, there are browser plugins for redirecting, yt-dlp, mobile and PC players, etc.

And expanding a bit, since it’s not a problem exclusive to Google…

For TikTok and Odysee, I don’t consume their short-format videos so can’t comment on those. And for Loops, part of the fediverse, watching externally, e.g. on Mastodon, should give the video in a plain form, without the addicting features.

If I may suggest, already start finding alternatives where those you follow are. Helps with both timeouts, and at making less painful to stop using Youtube altogether if/when the need comes.

Not saying the person shouldn’t have physical money, but that it could be easily tackled by ill-intended parties.

Then there is a “police raid” to the person’s home and somehow the money stored there vanishes.

Bank apps in Brazil demand face scans to validate installations for some years now, so while the path is different, result can easily be similar: your expenses are tied to your identity. No privacy and a track record if someone wants to do some fishing expeditions.

The current government here, which is being seen as a dictatorship more and more even by its previous allies, was also trying to push for Drex, a cryptocurrency they would control, while also trying to kill physical money. The Executive also did a rule that if you made more than a total sum of iirc 5000 reais in transactions in a month (very low amount tbh), you had to show all your finances of the year to the government agency tasked with gains and expenses taxes, killing another aspect of privacy and financial privacy.

Also from what I have read, between France being liberated and the government was reinstated, the French people also persecuted the French traitors that aided the nazi during the occupation.

If you use a microblogging-compatible fediverse instance (Mastodon, Misskey, Mbin, possibly PieFed?), you can also generate a RSS tracking bot with @birb@rss-parrot.net to follow locally.

Here are the instances I have noted if you want to generate one for the guy, and worth noting Nitter instances have a tendency to time-out, probably to avoid scrapping, so you may need to cycle through them:

• https://twiiit.com/
• https://lightbrd.com/
• https://nitter.poast.org/
• https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/
• https://nitter.kareem.one/
• https://xcancel.com/
• https://twiiit.com/
• https://nt.vern.cc/
• https://nuku.trabun.org/
• https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/
• https://nitter.space/
• https://nitter.catsarch.com/
• https://nitter.net/
• https://nitter.kuuro.net/
• https://nt.kuuro.net/

The Nitter #RSS pattern is https://nitter_instance_domain/user_handle/rss, e.g for the guy linked at the OP, https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/nmcmildotcom/rss.

Directly, I don’t think so. Youtube letting anyone join in, and generally being free to use, are the opposite of what Nebula does. Closest to Youtube afaik are Peertube, Odysee, Rumble and Bitchute. Other platforms come to mind but imo it starts getting a bit too small/niche at this point.

Nebula, and Dropout if I may add, from what I understand and checked, would be closer to cable TV, or Netflix and the sort if they were more generalist (or let their creators be). Still, subscribing to both, I think the two are worth to have around.

Now, on tangent, but still in the scope of escaping Youtube, from my experience, it is something hard to achieve. Constantly seeking redundancy for what I follow, still about half the video channels are Youtube-only, and jumping across sites only helps to annoy and want to stay at a single place (imo the intended experience from what I call the “2010’s sites”).

To avoid this annoyance, if you can, I’d suggest trying to aggregate all alternatives in a single place, like RSS readers, Grayjay/NewPipe/PipePipe, here at the fediverse through tracking bots, Peertube channels being treated as communities, etc., and/or other aggregators you may find. Helps at easing the process and not be annoyed into submission sticking to the more overarching platform.

That sounds even worse imo, like Vulcanus wanting to make a little trolling against the poor fellow’s legacy. 😬