Can't view ads if you can't view videos. Checkmate.
ChaoticEntropy
Sure, a service that manages an infinitely smaller amount of content and complexity. It is a situational tool, hardly a YouTube killer... the banner presented on the homepage professes that it's expensive to run and please donate.
And suppression of comments, for all sorts of reasons. Words and phrases will constantly flag AI autoremoval.
Hosting and storage costs, few can afford to be an alternative to an absolutely gigantic video storage platform that costs obscene money to maintain.
That's why they have to spend so much time trying to force you to watch all the get rich quick schemes, gambling, and expiring legal claims videos. What quality ad pushers they work with.
I don't think a DNS hole is going to save you from ads served internally by YouTube.
But don't worry, they've already spent tens of millions of dollars just to get to this point before cancelling.
Smite the Reich?
The only reason some states aren't considered third-world is because of the federal system, a fact they so often forget.
If the military was being deployed before for so little reason then hold on to your butts, the entire US military will be thrown in to the mix and California will be treated as an occupied state in no time if they touch the money.
Crime is speech!
I'm complaining, I'm stating.