I don't see why buying youtube premuim is any better than just using ublock origin.
Probably just a morality thing. Even though some creators have spoken against its use because the experience is bad
Because it works on smart tvs and Chromecast. Also I like YouTube music. I watch enough YouTube that it's worth it for me. Almost 0% of that watch time is on a device that supports uBlock Origin
Also you know...supporting channels I watch...
Corporations ☕
What you thought that paying money would take away the ads?! (Laughs in profit)
More like very infuriating, I pay for premium too, if I see ads I’ll be pissed!
All that paying does is prove you’ll pay whatever they want. Just like a blackmailer, it’s never enough. They always escalate in their attempts to extract “value”.
It’s the same damn story, time after time. “Oh, we put a few ads to cover expenses - it’ll be limited, we promise.” 3 months later: “We have a premium plan that hides ads.” Another 3 months: “We now have informational banners on premium for our own content. Since it’s our own, it’s totally not an ad!”
Then just: “Pay us a monthly rate and get served ads.”
It’s like fucking clockwork with these ghouls.
That's why I canceled Premium. I was still getting ads AND Google still used trackers. AND content creators get next to no money from it...
This is why I would not want to pay a subscription to YouTube. I don't trust that they would ever truely work out all the ads
I've had Premium since it was called Red (got it through Google Music) and never see ads. Would be upset if I was OP, but haven't experienced that issue myself.
Wait people actually pay for that shit 🤔
Via VPN in India. Costs about 1$ per month.
I think they just got a cease and desist from Google yesterday.
Yeah but they couldn't possibly shut down each and every instance
..right? I reall hope this statement doesn't age badly
If they make it hard enough that they cannot host their code repo then they can't maintain it, it should be shutting them all down.
Well yes, eventually, when they introduce breaking changes in YouTube.
Even so, I believe that today you can very well keep developing software even if you were not allowed to, unless you started committing with an account that personally identifies you, you can move to another hoster or host your own forge, maybe host it over Tor too, or try out the kinda experimental radicle.xyz (btw, why/when did they make their website uglier? It was so much better before)
smarttube next my beloved
does this support 4k? Anything i’ve used that says they do actually don’t. FreeTube, Invidious, Piped
I'm also a premium YT subscriber and if I see this or they kick me off for using PiHole, I'll cancel my account and just set up some automation with YT-DLP to Plex or Infuse for channels I like watching. If youtube decided that it's their turn to get shitty like the rest of the popular internet, I'll be beyond upset.
You can actually set up firewall settings to block any traffic coming from the ads, the only way they can stop that form of ad block is to block the person's IP address.
I'm mainly worried that some of the people I like watching on youtube will decide that youtube isn't worth it anymore and they'll stop making content entirely. Or even switch over to twitch, which I've never been able to get into.
If they actually continue on their path of ensuring no ad blockers work on YouTube, I will simply cease watching it completely. I really hate how aggressive advertisement became over the years. I didn't mind non-gore (because some ads shown really gruesome health issues) and non-porn side panels which didn't animate. Hell, sometimes I'd click if they had what would interest me. There is absolute zero chance I will buy anything which bothers me. And I won't let it waste the time of my life.
I like the game grumps and Lex Fridman. The documentaries are cool, but I have to watch them in a different container or YouTube will start feeding me 30 minute ads or rants that sound reasonable but are super bigoted and flawed when you actually think about it
Reddit meant more to me than anything else I do online, and I committed to leaving it behind even before I found Lemmy... YouTube is barely worth it even without the ads. And I've got a whole fediverse of video content to investigate
One of my oldest friends has recently started turning to the dark side, his PC died and he's run out of new shows to watch... so started watching stuff on YouTube via the suggestions.
It started off as debates between men and women... I warned him that it was going to suggest him more and more extreme stuff and the algo will walk him further to the right. Now he's quoting Andrew Tate, watching videos with conspiracies about great reset, ranting about trans people, ugh. When he said "the media is shoving trans in our face, all these trans personalities" I asked him to list these trans personalities, he couldn't list one. He's just spewing the rhetoric YT fed him. Very sad, he's not the only one being infected by this shit.
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