I think that kbin is very promising, but I feel like it is early days yet. Even if they don’t end up being the dominant platform, I feel like some of the features they are working on will persist.

uBlock Origin does a good job for me. On occasion, I will try watching YouTube on a platform where I don’t have it and I’m amazed how unwatchable it is. This reminds me to try to find alternate platforms for watching the creators I care about. Nebula is a good option for a lot of them, although it probably will never have the variety YouTube has. I haven’t tried PeerTube yet…I suspect I will run into the same issue.

Yeah. From what I understand, Giles Martin used the same technique (or, at least, a similar one) when making the 2022 remix of Revolver. The AI was able to make clean stems from the original tracks where the instruments were mixed. So, I would suspect that this technique was able to separate the vocal from tape hiss, room noise and other factors–it isn’t a deepfake of John Lennon.