Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" (lemmy.ml)

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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)

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[-] MoreZombies@quokk.au 32 points 1 week ago

I am not against paying for services to unlock extra features, but I utterly despise the way YouTube premium is entirely composed of features we had but they took away.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Years ago I understand why streaming services want to implement paid subscription. But now, I heard that even on premium you will still get ads! It is just milking more money at this stage!

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[-] scytale@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago

It’s why there’s like a second or two of a delay before the video plays when I watch on a browser with uBO. The connection isn’t slow, they’re just purposely slowing it down.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When they say ‘faster playback speeds’ they don’t mean faster connection speeds, they mean watching videos at 1.5x normal speed (or faster).

[-] himitsu@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago

Up to 4x

[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Sometimes they even show an "Experiencing interruptions?" popup just to be extra dickheads. I am patient, I can wait.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

its not an issue after it loads, and sometimes the "delay" doesnt activate on other videos.

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[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Because where would we be if we couldn‘t CONSUME ENDLESS SLOP AT FOUR TIMES SPEED?! Seriously who needs this? This is sickening.

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

If you're watching lectures from someone who talks really slow.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Slop comment aside, a lot of people with ADHD listen to videos at 1.5x or more speed because that’s how their brain works.

[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I watch a bunch of channels that are mostly talking and are 20+ minutes. I always put it on 1.5x speed and its barely noticeable and you get used to it. It saves me time without any loss of what was being shown so I consider it a win.

1 question, this feature already exists for non paying costumers, does this mean its going to be a pay for option only soon? That will piss me off...

[-] Blum0108@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I was thinking they'd cap the free speed up at either 1.5 or 2, but I don't know

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

i usually just skips the part if they drone on and on.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it trains your brain to be even more impatient and when you talk to people in real life, you will think everyone is slow and annoying.

Reading a book is probably hard for your brain too.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

That makes faster playback a disability affordance, for legal reasons

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Try watching videos by "explaining computers". Actually pretty good content (mostly on single board computers like raspberry pi), but he talks glacially. Normally I watch at 1.5x, this channel is one of just a few where I need to up it to 2x.

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I usually just skip to the part where he reveals the price of the amazingly cheap sbc, then click off when it's definitely not cheap.

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Nah I actually do care about the technical details, and that's the reason I watch the video. I can look up the price in like 3s myself and didn't need a video for that part.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

When you think about it, it’s not really that different from learning to read faster, which is a valued skill.

(There’s an argument to be made that for many things you’d be better off reading rather than watching YouTube vids at 4x but let’s not focus on that.)

[-] CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Tutorials where they are going through stuff you 90% understand already and you just need to find that juicy remaining 10%.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 week ago

Have you seen people who complain about written jnfo his video info? Its because they can read thr info faster than listening to it be said. But if you speed it up to 2x or 3x then it becomes the same as reading in terms of time. You get used to it over time. I can't listen to anything at 1x speed anymore.

[-] Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I’ve thought about dipping my toes into this but I don’t want to start getting antsy when people talk IRL

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

Do NOT do it. I dont think the time saved is worth it. It hasnt changed irl stuff for me but any media feels painfully slow. I had to listen to a 1hr video conference with a group on 1x speed and I felt like I was being tortured. I had to refocused myself every sentence because i couldn't hold attention on sentences that were being said so slowly.

If you want to consume info fast then reading is way better.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This is me but backwards sort of. Media has always been painfully slow for me and it wasn't until I found the playback speed settings that I could tolerate watching most things. ADHD is wild.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Play video in background

Was such a shamelessly sleazy was to try and twist arms into using their service. Nevermind that it just spawned a thousand different 3rd party tools for getting around this annoying limiter. It just felt like a huge red flag, indicating they were going to use their native app to be fucking annoying to their clients going forward.

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[-] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Got a 3 month free trial of it, honestly love the things I used to have. But it still stutters like shit and is a garbage feed of shit I don't watch. I will not be paying when it's used up.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

even better adblock. unless they aggressively go after anti-adblock, like preventing the page from loading there arnt getting new subscribers.

[-] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 1 week ago

PipePipe still works

[-] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My boss uses a VPN and some other clandestine methods to subscribe via India, so he pays the equivalent of about £3 per month for premium.

I gave it a try, but could never quite manage. You need to fully turn off location services, use an Indian registered Gmail and pay via a credit card of some kind. I think you also need a registered address, but he just used one for a random hotel in Bangladesh.

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[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I've never liked YouTube.

I didn't watch it when it was free. I didn't watch it when it had ads. I don't watch it now. It is bad. Most of the content on it is bad.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Typical. Take it away, then charge to bring it back.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 0 points 1 week ago

For anyone wondering, only 4x speed is behind premium:

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