Google and youtube are shitty companies.
But I dont understand how blocking external clients would infringe on net neutrality?
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024
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It's not. Net neutrality is about treating all network packets equally during transmission. Like mobile data operators giving free social media.
Server owners blocking traffic from certain IPs is not that at all.
I would argue that google's size, position, and status as something approaching monopoly for the service of routing internet traffic assigns it to a position somewhere among the order of ISPs. In fact, now I consider it, it very much is an ISP in the original sense, too: google fiber is a thing (or maybe was- did they kill that, too?). On that basis, its blocking invidious and tor are very much in violation of the spirit and the letter of net neutrality. Then again, they killed the law, so.
I'm commenting to follow this discussion. I've used invidious, and freetube for years to avoid being tracked by yt. But that strategy doesn't work as well as it used to. How shall we proceed?
If they succeed in fully blocking mitigations, then I will simply drop youtube (and the content it holds hostage) from my life. I've done this with other proprietary abusers.