Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman

LTT vs Google.

I’ll side with LLT on this, but that doesn’t mean I want to support their channel.

For visibility, here is a list of ways around youtube ads the video was supposedly banned for mentioning:

Desktop:

• https://freetubeapp.io/
• https://github.com/LibreTubeApp/LibreTube
• https://github.com/yattee/yattee
• https://invidious.io/
• Apparently searching for a youtube url in Bing.com and clicking on the thumbnail gives you the video with no ads

Android:

• https://grayjay.app/
• https://newpipe.net/

I personally use Freetube and think it's great

Problem #00001: Relying on googlevideo in order to obtain information on how to avoid Google.

I just bought a Google Pixel!

So that I can install GrapheneOS on it.

Here is the video in question.

Hopefully it stays up. If not, someone might want to push to archive.org / peertube /etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPa8NpmhKM0

Was it about how to live without Google or how to bypass ads on YouTube?

This dude is so smart but has literally the worst vibes I just can't stand him for no reason lmfao

No way this wasn't calculated by LTT.

The fact Louis had to disable comments on that video tells a lot 😄

Had suspicions with Rossman involved and a quick check of the ltt subreddit means I both need a shower and likely know why it was delisted:

The issue isn't "how to live without google". Plenty of those videos exist

The issue is encouraging people to use third party apps that violate the TOS and let you watch youtube without ads. That is not "living without google". That is "You should 'steal' from google"

But honestly, not surprising. Rossman has pretty much always been on the "Fuck em, just pirate it" side of things for better or for worse.

Whereas LMG are still desparate to get back their viewership after all the harassment and incompetence accusations. So nothing better to make people think the company that encourages its users to advocate against warranties is pro-consumer than to pick a pointless fight with google. Which has the added benefit of advertising floatplane (see also: gun youtubers hamming it up over what youtube will let them do to advertise Ian McCollum's latest side hustle).