In a addition to the arguments that also apply to adblockers, custom frontends simply take the oxygen out of the room.
Attention, development, donations etc. that could go towards decentralized platforms get burned with the sole purpose of playing catch up with pointless breaking changes from Google.
So I think it’s fair to say that adblockers are less bad than alternative frontends given their generic nature. And besides, ads aren’t the only annoyance YouTube has that customers frontends workaround.
I have a feeling why that could be.
In a addition to the arguments that also apply to adblockers, custom frontends simply take the oxygen out of the room.
Attention, development, donations etc. that could go towards decentralized platforms get burned with the sole purpose of playing catch up with pointless breaking changes from Google.
So I think it’s fair to say that adblockers are less bad than alternative frontends given their generic nature. And besides, ads aren’t the only annoyance YouTube has that customers frontends workaround.