This is why I use Smartube on my android TV and revanced/NewPipe on my phone.
The few times I've witnessed naked YouTube it's made be realise that if any of the sources mentioned stop working then I'm simply not going to use YouTube.
To be fair as a backup I've almost never used it, but I travel quite a bit for work so it gets used when I'm travelling so there's never a risk of sharing IPs on RD.
I think this will be aimed at mainly EU members after a law banning targeted advertising (without explicit consent) comes in which will mean a reduction in ad revenue to Meta, as a result they're hoping to make up the shortfall by charging users for an ad-free version.
Not really and some would argue that from a local network perspective HTTPS is preferable.
The main difference is that HTTPS routes through a standard port so gets "lost" in all other Https traffic whereas TLS uses a distinct port so whilst it's encrypted you would be able to see at the local level that you're using DNS over TLS but not what you're doing.
Now that podcasts have migrated to YouTube music , which isn't available in my location, I've lost access to podcasts via Google.
In fairness I don't use Google podcasts anyway because it was a really poor podcast app but the swap will suck for people who do use it and don't have access to YTM.
I think it's simply because there's less white noise trahing over everything so more proper posts are visible and as there's less toxicity people are more confident to comment on Lemmy.
Not from Israel but our entire water system is desalinated and I've never experienced any issue with the taste, in fact the opposite is true. Pure clean drinking water.
I will agree with the hardness aspect but other than that it's perfectly good, i've tasted worse bottled mineral water.
Voyager app
I also use Thunder but voyager is my go to app. I've tried most of the others but always end up back with voyager.