Weird to think that there is some percentage of this world that still goes to BestBuy, GameStop, and watches ads on TV and that its big enough to be worth marketing to.
I’m often surprised when I hear how other people live. Conversation at work will go like:
Employee A: “Youtube ads are getting ridiculous.”
Me: “You still see Youtube ads?”
Employee B: “Yeah, just get Youtube Premium. Such a smart investment.”
Me: “Wait, what?!”
Several of my millennial friends have cable TV and Tivo or something just because they are creatures of habit and are too tired from raising kids to consider changing their process. Weirdly, my boomer parents are the most tech savvy media consumers I know. They just have terrible taste.
This is one of those things that I go against the Lemmy hivemind on. I cut out pretty much every streaming service and sail the high seas for most of my media.But I consider YouTube Premium worth the cost.
I got grandfathered into it when Google Music shut down and I really haven't felt the need to change anything. YouTube music is better than Spotify. I don't have to constantly play the whack-a-mole game of ad blockers that will inevitably break during a YouTube update. I don't have to rely on finicky software to get videos to play in the background with my phone screen off.
Look, I get it. All these features used to be offered for free without ads. I think that more than anything is why people are so rabidly against premium, because they feel like they had that stuff stolen from them. But YouTube is a service, not a right. You were never guaranteed those features permanently. The cost of Premium is miniscule compared to the benefits I get from it. I use YouTube a LOT. Weather for how to videos, or ASMR, or background music, or documentaries, or podcasts. I like knowing that no matter where I use it, from my computer to my phone to the random smart TV in a hotel that I cast to, I'm not going to see any ads.
All this is based on the current services offered at the current price. If and when they start making those services shittier or increase the cost, then I will seek alternatives; but not before.
EDIT: I love all the many replies going "Yea but you could just use this program combined with this plugin on your locally hosted server. Just use these 3 different pieces of software. Have you tried Squootle? Just use Squootle and SEvR, bro. If you use Squootle you can download the video, recompress it, and play it from any desktop running Windows 7."
Man I just use ublock on Firefox, it works on all my devices including my phone, and I've never once had to play with it
Yeah that is definitely against the grain for me.
I pay for Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon prime, but never in life will I pay for YouTube premium. I have Google one and I pay enough for it. There are plenty of apps that still deliver an ad free, promotion free, bullshit free experience and the fact that Google works so hard to fuck with it makes me even less likely to ever pay.
Paying for YouTube would be like paying for tiktok or whatever dumb shit video service people watch now. It just isn't going to happen. I will use the service for free, find the content for free, or else it will get cut from the lineup.
Pay for YouTube / watch YouTube ads... Lol no way to either one.
To be honest I just don’t want google to get more money. They suck.
Also your use case is very specific. The people I was referencing have more basic needs that would be easily bypassed with ublock. It’s fine if the way you like to listen to music is best served by youtube with a subscription.
I'm with you there, but Google is quote rapidly falling off for me. thinking about moving away from all of Google, rolling my own solution and self-hosting (really the only free open path available currently where you're in control) seems like it would be worse than quitting hard opiates or something. I know all the benefits of switching and even the tech part of what I would do at a high level, I'm just lazy.
Maybe it's a combination effort? I run pihole but I tell my friends (who aren't 'techy') when best buy has a good deal. Having the 2 forms of suggestion (ads and word of mouth) may give them a boost.
One of those good deals is a 2-year controller coverage (+$10). If a controller gets stick drift (or any other damage including user-inflicted), you can exchange it at no cost if you paid the extra $10. I know stick drift and defects are typically covered under the manufacturer's warranty but that can be a pain. I sent an elite series 2 controller in 5 times and it was never truly fixed.
With best buys paid extended coverage, I've turned in dualsense controller twice now (I'm on my third currently) for a total of $75 USD.
"In the twilight of bourgeois decadence, even the most trivial ornaments of culture shall be seized by the ruling class, for in latestage capitalism the elites will weaponize every spectacle - yes, even the egirls - to distract the proletariat from its chains." - Karl Marx
The worst part about this is that if Karl Marx was alive today he would 100 percent be posting shit like this online. You cannot convince me that Karl Marx wasn't the 1800s equivalent of that dude giving indepth historical economic overviews to his team in CSGO.
This reminds me of when the "can you hear me now?" guy from Verizon moved to Sprint, I think it was. How about them Epstein files though?
Remember Jared, the pedo subway guy (rest in piss). Bet he's in there
You had gotten me all excited. I had thought he was still alive, so I looked it up. He is still alive. And now I am sad.
Anyone got a link? For research purposes
GameStop glow up
Whatever Best Buy used as a filter to enlarge her eyes creeps me out. At least the Game Stop version looks like an actual person
All of her facial features are a bit bigger on the left, like her nose. I wonder if it's a focal length thing like this dude?
It's not a filter. She had an eye embiggening.
Wouldn't she have had to get an eye disembiggening (ensmallment?) since best buy was first?
You mean a debigulation?
How do you not understand which image is from earlier?
He's simply too used to people posting after/before
I think it's just under-eye eye liner
Why are we posting about commercials
Look im glad she's getting a paycheck but why do people give these 2 soulless companies free marketing by falling for this fabricated rivalry.
For the same reason it's posted here and you're commenting on it.
Hey I already jacked of to the best buy commercial, I've done my duty. Now it's your turn.
I remember when you weren’t allowed to have piercings or coloured hair to work at these places lol
This is much better.
I’m trying to figure out what the next level of progression is… Netflix?
The light side progression is Micro Center and the dark side progression is Linus Tech Tips.
i miss funcoland :(
Boo advertising
Wow. Necky.
I thought boxxy
That's honestly the vibe yeah, less child looking I guess
I've had this weird thing lately where something keeps being mentioned or random things remind you of something and it's been boxxy. It started with me watching black sails for the first time some weeks ago and thinking one of the characters looks familiar, which I then realised was boxxy (not that she is boxxy, but that's who she reminds me of) then it just went as it always does; mentions of boxxy in the most random places, that actress appearing in stuff I'm watching and me thinking "that looks so much like boxxy" before realising it's the same actress (who isn't boxxy). It's always a fun journey when this happens, and it's the most random thing that it's about too.
And now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think I've ever watched an actual boxxy video, not back then or ever since. Just mentions, images and gifs on forums etc.
I've had this too but not with boxxy. Sometimes I think God or the universe is trying to tell me something and other times it's just always been there but I've just given the topic more attention. However, in your case I agree that boxxy has become a rare topic.
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