Official Hooktube Thread

Since every other discussion seems to be getting derailed with Hooktube/Anti-hooktube flaming. So type away! I'll start:

Anti-hooktubers, why don't you like Hooktube? Are you incredulous to the legitimacy of such a project? Or do you think it's unethical? Or are you frustrated that there are people using Hooktube and not looking for a true, viable alternative to YouTube?

I was wondering when this thread was going to be made. :) Coming from the pro-HookTube camp, I use it for multiple reasons, one because YouTube since their last major redesign has become unnecessarily bloated. Two, because YouTube has initiated sneaky censorship tactics like placing videos in a "limited state" and I can use HookTube to get information and data from a video that's been placed in a limited state. For example, this video by Black Pigeon Speaks https://youtu.be/NanumqpBDtA was placed in a limited state recently and as is, I cannot see how many views it has, how many thumbs up or down, nor any comments or recommended videos that you often see to the right.

With the same video using HookTube https://hooktube.com/watch?v=NanumqpBDtA I can see that (as of this post) the video has 159,262 views, 12,302 thumbs up, 436 thumbs down, the list of suggested videos to the right and it can fetch at least some of the top comments that were left on the video. I can also download the video in mp4 format without having to fickle around in a command line with

youtube-dl

or use some crappy browser extension.