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Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"
(lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40372957
fyi:
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp lets you download videos (from youtube and also hundreds of other sites)
- for desktop, https://mpv.io/ is free and lets you watch youtube (or any other video) at even more and faster speeds than youtube premium does, among many other features
- for android, https://newpipe.net/ lets you play youtube in the background (and download videos, and block ads, ...)
- https://ublockorigin.com/ blocks ads everywhere (and yes it does still work on youtube, at least in firefox anyway)
How is that any different from shifting existing features to premium? If you aren't paying you're lucky to get anything.
I dont pay and I ad block everything. I'm surprised I can use the site at all. These features are nice to haves and not core to using YouTube.
Lucky to get anything? YouTube couldnt even have grown at all if it was a paid product from the start. People made it into the success it is, by using it, because it was free.
Now when its a monopoly, they do a bait and switch.
So because they started off offering something for free they owe us? Its still free, there has been no bait and switch.
As far as i know, there is a difference in psychology between taking away features and adding the new features already behind a paywall
With you on this. Freeloaders have so many options to use the same service