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Stop using it. I did and now I only use unofficial ways of watching the videos I want. And I download the ones I wanna watch again.
Laughs in Ad Blocker. Still going strong.
Jokes on you, YouTube, my Chinese phone rolls their ads over yours!
And thus we say fare thee well - U-Toob
Oh please no, it's the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube
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Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won't roll it out? wink wink, nudge nudge!
Very likely - but that’s not going to happen. Some people will watch less, some will complain but keep watching the same amount, and the majority will just take it as a fact of life and not change their behaviour.
I think we've seen enough changes in social media platforms over the past few decades to say that your claim is true until it's not. As payments to content creators fall, and as garbage postings increase, the actual value to the average user of the site is clearly decreasing. So we'll see how long YouTube is relevant.
Finally subscribed to Nebula a few days ago. Between a third and half the creators I follow are there. I'm planning to move away from YouTube entirely, even if I can pay for premium or block ads I want to make the statement I don't support their service anymore.
Isn't Nebula a paid service?
Yes, but from my understanding Nebula is creator owned.
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Yall I got yt premium as a perk from my carrier and tried it out, it’s fucking AWFUL. Mostly the yt app. I get better speeds, quality and less interruptions just using brave
I use SmartTube on my Nvidia Shield TV box and don't ever deal with any ads. It's appalling whenever I have to use vanilla YouTube for anything.
I will continue to download all my videos to avoid ads. When they break the tools in such a way that this is no longer possible, I will stop watching videos from YouTube and seek entertainment elsewhere.
revolt.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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