the retired general mentioned in the second image is the same one quoted in the third. he goes on to say how he would rather let people in Gaza starve than sell them his rotting fruit [x]
the entire article is really worth a read. the writer is Israeli and currently lives in Denmark. he grew up on the first kibbutz they discuss in the article. i feel like his knowledge of local trade and consumer purchases really added a lot of knowledge to the report's info that i would not have otherwise gotten
there is things beyond just boycotting, many people think that you HAVE to fully boycott, but that is not true. You don't have to force yourself to boycott, you can do things beyond that
(This plan will go from easiest to do, to the hardest)
1. Spread the word of the ID policy and why it's horrible as much as you can.
Keep the ID policy in people’s minds. Talk about it everyday and every night, retweet, repost, reblog. Make sure people know about this as much as possible. Don’t let this get out of peoples minds
Talk about all the reasons why it’s horrible, why we can stand against them and why it’s not hopeless
Make memes about it so people have more things to spread.
make hopeful edits, make comic art, make art that spreads the idea of going against YouTube.
We want to go against YouTube and we need to remind everyone about this before they forget about.
2. Convince people to cancel their YouTube premium subscription
By canceling their subscriptions, YouTube would get less and less money. If we can get the word out for more and more people to cancel their subscriptions, we can get less money into YouTube’s pockets.
Also, it would be smart that if it asks you why your canceling your YouTube subscription, tell them it’s about the YouTube ID policy
OH and bonus, cancel your youtuber memberships because YouTube takes 30% cut of their membership (in total revenue) and let the youtuber know about why you cancelled your membership
If you still want to support that creator, find their kofi, patreon, whatever you can find that isn't giving YouTube money, you can use.
Now if they don't have any of those and you feel bad about canceling your membership, you don't have to cancel your membership at all if you wish to keep on supporting them.
But I would highly recommend you cancel your premium membership because that is mostly benefiting YouTube
3. Reduce your YouTube watch time
Now, what a lot of people have talked about is how some people feel bad about boycotting, like they have this urge to go back onto YouTube and watch their favorite creators. It might be due to wanting to feel good from watching videos or just seeing what your favorite creator is up to.
This is an aspect that the boycott can not reach because people would not want to feel forced into leaving something they hold dear.
But I propose a different idea. Just reducing your watch time.
You can do this many different ways
You want set a time of day where YouTube is not allowed and have that be enforced by a friend or family member.
You can download an app that makes it so you can't watch youtube (there is apps that exist out there that do that) after a certain amount of hours.
This way, even though your not fully boycotting, your still taking away just a bit of traffic and revenue from them.
I would highly encourage people to slowly transition into a full boycott, but I will not force anybody
BONUS: if you want to do this reduce idea, one thing I would suggest is using front ends and or downloading stuff. It uses less traffic than usual and it allows you to avoid ads without paying for them
(plus you can share the videos with others to avoid more traffic and more ads!)
4. Boycotting them
An increase from simply reducing your watch time is boycotting them.
People assume that boycotting means downloading and or using front ends. But that’s not the case, using front ends and downloading still gives them traffic, it’s a lower amount of traffic, but it’s still traffic at the end of the day.
This is because it still technically connects to YouTube and gives them traffic.
(Here’s a visual of what that looks like)
Provided by: @quantumboogaloo
The main idea would be a full on disconnection from YouTube and to never watch a single YouTube video again.
Now we understand that something might come up that causes you to be unable to fully boycott (school, maybe some friends) and in those instances, we totally understand why you needed to break your boycott for that moment. Nobody will hold it against you, we just encourage you to keep on boycotting even with those distractions.
If you want to find ways to watch stuff online, without watching YouTube we highly recommend both the internet archive and preservetube.
They both have the videos in their own servers so it wouldn’t be giving YouTube traffic at all.
5. Annoying them on social media
The main idea here is that you’ll be reminding them that people don’t want this policy and that people won’t stop talking until it’s fully reversed.
It’ll also remind people of the horrible ID policy and make sure it’s on people’s mind.
Constant backlash to the point where it starts annoying the people running the accounts.
Don’t harass them, just annoy them
6. Send letters and faxes
Send letters and faxes to them as much as you can. If you want a day for a mass amount of letters to send, Friday will be the chosen one, but sending them any day still works.
If we can overwhelm them, we can fight them, make them see our efforts in their offices
Don’t harass them in the letters, be calm and kind, they will not listen to rude people.
7. Tell YouTubers (and other social media people) people about the ID policy
Getting YouTubers to talk about the ID policy could help spread the word about it to more people. More people knowing about this could help convince more people to cancel their subscriptions and leave YouTube.
We can also get them to contact YouTube about this horrible policy, since they have better contact to YouTube than most of us do.
Don’t harass YouTubers about the policy, just let them know on stuff like Twitter or other social media sites, we want them to be with us, not against us.
Bonus things:
Make flyers, have fun with it and make your own flyer and stick them on certain places that people will take notice and will see (it can be a qr code of this post or of this tumblr account or even the discord server)
Make upload on different youtube alternatives, things like glomble or peertube, give some support to the youtube alternatives and help them grow and give Youtube some competition
Beyond YouTube:
These are all things you can do to fight YouTube. They are all very good things, even just doing number one could lead to a ton of amazing results.
But it’s not just YouTube, it’s also the government themselves who want these ID policies.
So please do come over to this post to learn how you can fight them as well, cause if the government legalizes ID law, that could spell disaster.
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There are other factors within the YouTube ID policy. There are gove
There have been reports from various people that YouTube is advertising on other platforms, something they have not done historically [1]. There have also been reports from individuals that they have been receiving emails with promo codes for discounted YouTube Premium or YouTube TV, which also has not been done historically [2]. Some users think they've been experiencing an increase in the number of notifications they've been receiving. YouTube actually published a video attempting to defend the AI age-estimation policy. YouTube also seems to be giving itself bot 5-star reviews filled with nonsense word salad on the app store [3].
YouTube seems to be scrambling to get people to stay on the platform. If that isn't enough for you, keep in mind that YouTube is owned by Google. Google is a big company. It will take time to really affect them, but if we keep this up, sooner or later things will have to change. They can't make money without us. They need us, but we don't need them. Boycotts take time.
Most obviously, Louis Rossmann made the video titled "Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious", which is why we are now using Clippy and paperclips in general as a logo for the YouTube boycott. He has continued to make videos in opposition of invasive policies across tech companies as a whole, but they are all on YouTube, unfortunately.
CaptainSparklez made a video discussing these sorts of policies on the internet as a whole.
Athena P is supporting the boycott, trying to reach out to journalists, and is uploading videos to Glomble.
Bettina Levy is supporting and participating in the boycott, and has stopped uploading on YouTube.
Deep Humor has been consistently making videos about the boycott and how to fight YouTube's new age-estimation/age-verification policy.
Q: I don't care about "traffic." How do we affect YouTube's profits?
A: Well, for YouTube, traffic almost directly translates to profits (it just takes a little time).
YouTube doesn't make their money from video hosting. The most obvious way that YouTube brings in revenue is paid services, such as YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, channel memberships, tips, etc. But they make their money via advertising, same as their parent company, Google. And YouTube is able to convince advertisers to advertise on their platform via your traffic.
The more traffic YouTube gets, the more slots they can sell to advertisers, and the more they can boast about their high traffic. By refusing to engage with the platform, we can remove any money they could potentially make off of us.
Traffic does not directly give YouTube profit, but when looking at a something as complicated as this, it's important to keep the big picture in mind. Remember, if a service is free, then you are the product. By taking away the amount of product YouTube can sell to advertisers, we obviously decrease their revenue. It just takes a bit of time.
