There are no problems on GNU/Linux only new areas of ignorance coming to your awareness. These are really opportuinities to learn. What you call problems is really some sort of ignorance of the underlying systems. Filling in the blind spot usually resolves the issue. You becoming aware of this is a great opportunity for this to self-correct. Thus you don’t have problems on GNU/linux instead you have growing opportunities. And boy oh boy are there lots of them 😃

alright

Stop Using Windows And MacOS use GNU/Linux instead -> Problem Solved

which you could get around by using another frontend for youtube or just going with vlc all the way by playing the url in vlc directly.

They can reasonably argue that advertising is a requirement of their business model,

Couldn’t that claim be countered by pointing out that they already deploy a for pay approach called youtube premium?

I’m gonna open a place that looks like a movie theater but the seats are more spaced out, and you smoke dmt. You pay like $50 for a ticket and get the most interesting movie experience ever.

You got it backwards, big corporations own the government, but not limited to big tech. Oil and gas companies, Telecommunications, transportation, arms, shipping, retail and so forth.

Small tech can be much nastier as they have less scrutiny on them. Think of all these companies writing spyware for governments/corporations around the world.

You are asking the right questions, keep digging deeper! Ban all Karma and abolish all mods and admins!

There is mods on lemmy? I just found out there is also karma, why are we recreating a toxic authoritarian shit hole but decentralized?

What about facebook, disney, netflix, twitter, apple, uber, airbnb?