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Youtube is far too significant a video collection to risk losing it. Yes there is insane anounts of garbage and yes their history is getting spottier by the day, but nothing else comes close to all of the good stuff that is still on it.

Google needs to get its shit together and give users power tools. YT hasn't improved materially for many years now. I hope they can snap out of whatever governance dysfunction they're in. Not sure whether increasing financial pressure (above what must, no doubt, build up on its own) is the right answer here. It will probably only lead to more enshittification, and a long, slow death and I'm pretty saddened by that thought.

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>Youtube is far too significant a video collection to risk losing it.

> Not sure whether increasing financial pressure (above what must, no doubt, build up on its own) is the right answer here.

fantastic, an appeal to personal guilt to fund large corporate money making and national/corporate-soft-power efforts.

an acquired predatory advertiser, the worlds #1 inadequate and neglectful child nanny, and world wide cultural trend-setter is also bad at making money? and they need more? and you say they won't squander it?

I think i'll donate to PBS while aiding YT archival efforts.

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