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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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I know people like the head canon that Cas would call Dean stuff like "Beloved" or "my love" and romantic shit like that

But I personally prefer him only ever calling Dean by his first name, but saying it like it's the most endearing nickname. Like "Dean" is said in the same vein as "My heart, my soul, my everything". But there is no other word to describe how he feels other than saying Dean's name

Meanwhile, Dean calls him the most atrocious pet names, the borderline inappropriate 1950s carpenter catcalls

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truth about “omega ruby” and “alpha sapphire”? you decide

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“After coming in from her first ever play outside!”

(via)

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Day one of fuck YouTube’s new ai age verification

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This thing seems to be working fine! XD

"I saw a bunch of post saying nothing's happened to them yet. Just wanted to show you guys, this is was the first thing I got after I opened the YouTube app today. Most of the videos I watch are historical topics, documentaries, or news/politics. Yet apparently they couldn't verify that I'm an adult (and I am.)."

"Hold up you're telling me with my 4 yr old acct that has mostly grwm and roblox content so I can numb my brain before bed, with a few horror vids sprinkled in counted as over 18 because I have been stalking the housing market since I was in middle school? Keep in mind I'm literally a senior in high school like starting today. Like your telling me I was worried over nothing? My Zillow obsession stopped this? Omg."

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Hey, psst. Look at the Internet Archive for existing YouTube videos during the boycott. I found a huge playlist of Summoning Salt videos to listen to at night.

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Small Ways I'm Planning to Be More Punk as a College Student (And Ways You Can Be Too!!)

Making small boxes of menstrual products to put in public restrooms (or adding to existing ones! especially in the men's bathrooms because some men/non binary people menstruate <3)

Making zines! You can make them easily and they're easy to distribute!

Getting involved in activist clubs and clubs for marginalized identities! Literally any involvement will help!

Go to your local post office and grab the sticker shipping labels! Write your message and stick them around on lampposts and such!)

Support local businesses! College towns have a lot of fun local places!

Volunteer!! Volunteer!!

Educate yourself!! Go to attend guest speakers' lectures! Keep up to date on the news!

Go vote!! Not voting is not an option any more!!

Go to and/or donate to thrift stores!

If you have paint! Make pins and/or patches!

If you can! Attend protests! If you can't, provide support to protesters by bringing water or filming police activity!

Kill lantern flies!!

Repost important information online!

Smile at people! Kindness is punk!!

Support your local libraries!

Take care of yourself <3

If anyone has anything else, please add to it!

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boards n shiiiii

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Hey kiddos, I just want to put this out there:

If you only just found out about the YouTube boycott today, you can still participate. Take the day to download videos that you want to watch, and then you can join us tomorrow. As long as you’re willing to start, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with starting late.

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We know what we have to do 😔

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Things you can watch/do instead of YouTube, For those who may have trouble finding things to do.

1. Internet Archive. Has plenty of videos to watch, plenty of games you can play that are emulated right on the website. You can also find entire collections of roms. For emulators, check out Emulation General Wiki to find the best emulator for the system you want to emulate.

2. r/piracy has a wiki full of safe places to read comics and manga, to watch anime and cartoons, and to watch movies.

3. Virtualbox, you can set up a Windows XP virtual box and get old PC games from Internet Archive. You can also check out CD Game World if you need a no-cd patch.

4. Saltybet. A Livestream of MUGEN with thousands of characters fighting against each other, sometimes things get hilarious. Runs 24/7.

5. The Cutting Room Floor, spend hours reading up on cut content from your favorite games.

6. Lost Media Wiki, read up on lost movie, books, animation, video games, etc.

7. Neocities, learn coding and make your own website!

8. WebDSR, explore shortband radio

9. Radio Garden, listen to radio stations from around the world

10. Every Noise At Once, explore the widest archive of music genres, with samples and Spotify playlists

11. My Retro TV, pick and era and watch popular television from that time period

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SO... YOUTUBE AI AGE VERIFICATION

For anyone that is a little lost about this topic, I'll do a quick summary: This August 13th, Youtube implemented in the US an AI that goes through your search history, to determinate if you're under 18 or not, and the only way to appeal against the AI, is to show a selfie, your ID or similar. Which is BAD, link HERE

This has to do with other stuff, mainly in the UK about political bills, stuff that I don't have the capability to talk about.

First thing clear, DO NOT GIVE ANY OF THIS SENSIBLE INFORMATION TO YOUTUBE, you'll put yourself in risk if any information gets leaked out, similar case that happened recently was the "Tea app" data breach, that was hacked and leaked lots of IDs and drivers license of multiple women.

Second, this gives place to censorship (Reporters can get banned or have their channels linked to their IDs, to give an example), limits places of artistic expression and affects people who watches "childish" videos, besides is completely HYPOCRITAL with the types of ads that youtube sometimes has and the inappropriate videos in youtube kids.

That's why people wants to boycott youtube, starting today, August 13th.

I don't live in the US, so why am I joining? Cause this is REALLY WORRYING as a precedent of how things can turn out later and I don't want more people to go through this ridiculous censorship.

Before giving tips that I found around of how to deal with this, I want to give a warning:

DO NOT harass people who can't join, some people really need stuff like youtube to study and sometimes can't afford other mediums, besides, you'll push away people from the boycott, we need to bring people in, no push them away.

This is not a "won't be in youtube for a day", this most likely can take weeks to months, or even not work out, but if we don't try then we would definitely lose the battle.

If you're learning about this after the 13th, don't feel bad, you can still join anytime

Now that you know about this, what you can do? I searched for tips to the boycott to make a list (Still search about this if possible)

The majority of the tips comes from HERE, credits to him

Cancel Youtube Premium Subscription and if possible, list the AI age verification as the reason.

Refrain to use/watch Youtube (Or use it in your desktop with an ad-blocker and/or VPN)

Support content creators in social media, merchandise, kofi/patreon and similar (Only if you can afford it)

Download and archive stuff for you to watch

Use alternative websites to watch stuff

Use physical media if possible to watch content (Have an old mp3 that I filled with my music, other examples are CDs, DVDs, VHS, videogame consoles, etc)

Spread the word to family and people around you, especially vulnerable people like kids and elderly

I've never written a serious post and English isn't my main language, if I made any grammatical mistakes or misinformed, please call me out.

ALSO, gotta leave this here:

The best way to take this, at least for me, is as a way to detox a little from the internet, at least a part of it. Don't lose hope nor give up, the best thing you can do now for yourself is create stuff, in my opinion. Draw, sing, write, whatever, even if things look quite grim, we can just prepare for the worst and expect the best. Hope you all can have a good day and a better one tomorrow

I may try to make a list with ideas in the meantime, free games that I can find around, etc. Have to see if my studies allow me so...

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Update: Just tried Freetube (private open-source YouTube client built around privacy that doesn't use a google account)

YouTube boycott is now indefinite for me hehe this is so much better actually

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