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Fuck off bootlickers
"the unthinkable"
Hyperbole much?
Unthinkable is signing up in the first place
They though the titanic unthinkable until they hit an itheburg.
Incontheivable!
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Was about to say the same. Unthinkable, I never even thought of subscribing in the first place!
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Here I am using firefox and ublock or newpipe, I haven't seen a youtube ad in years. 🤷
I only see ads when I go to a friends house and they have that on the tv app blasting 1min ads every 5minutes.
Introduce them to SmartTube for Android TV
They don't care. I've tried with Vanced, blockers, DNS, everything. They'd rather just watch the ads. Blows my balls off.
Drives my crazy, and apparently throwing whatever i have in my hand; at a friend/relatives tv is not acceptable. Honestly and ad appears and it my instant reaction is to shut it the F up, and then usually to glare at whoever owns it like they are an idiot. I love hearing them explain why they pay tolerate it.
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The unthinkable? lmao
Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn't solve many of the problems that still exist:
- being shown the same content over and over
- Dislikes hidden
- in-video ads
- Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
- broken search results
- AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
- crypto spam
- Google-connected account using view history to spy on you
etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won't.
They finally lost me completely when I loaded a music video marked "adult" for language and it demanded I upload ID on an account that was legally an adult.
I made that account in 1999, it's not even from this millennium, and they still derp out on it. I'm getting close to 50, at this point, and the only thing ads, age verification, and extreme right wing content on top of state sponsored disinformation campaigns will get you is a blacklist.
We should have seen it coming, I mean they used to have the "Don't be evil" motto, removing that was a declaration of intent.
I pay for YouTube and they wouldn't accept the card I pay them with for validation.
So I took a photo of someone in a YouTube video and they accepted it as me and hey now I'm verified.
Considering YT didn't even start until 2005, I call BS 😁. Not to mention I don't think they would've had accounts from the get go unless you wanted to upload videos.
They probably mean their google account
Gmail didn't exist until 2004 or so. Google back then was a search engine in 1998 so there'd be no need for an "account"in the sense it's used today. I mean, they're probably not wrong claiming they have a Google account old enough to be legal since it'd only need to be from 2008 to be 18, and there was Gmail, YouTube, and Android (later on) by then.
Get Revanced and you can also block shorts from the UI completely, on top of no ads
Yes, that was my entire point.
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If I’m paying, it will be to nebula. YouTube is toxic.
Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won't you think of the corpos??
There is an assumption these people are making that I am not sure they are aware they are making. They are assuming the cost of running YouTube is increasing so the cost of YouTube premium needs to increase. Every public company is driven by maximizing share holder value, the goal is to extract as much money as possible from the user.
Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it's absurd and bad and all that.
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forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
.... Death???
Prostitution
Woah.. Morbid much?
The answer is obvious. Going outside.
Dramatic much? Canceling a subscription is 'the unthinkable' now? For fuck's sake.
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable "Do I really need 300 subscriptions?"
So glad PipePipe and FreeTube are a thing
For now....
I would like to add an honourable mention to your list here: Kodi YouTube add-on. Somehow this is working for me again after being broken for ages. It's not the same (you need to use a Google account and API set-up) but no ads, auto play, recommend videos..
The 'unthinkable' of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?
How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
Use a firefox clone and ublock?
(and linux, btw)
For me the unthinkable is giving my hard earned money to a multi billion dollar corporation
Where did all those price tiers come from?
I remember YT red, which became premium, and included both music and Youtube.
TIL there is a Music Premium that just gives you music.... But YouTube Music is just YouTube with a fancy frontend.
And the price hikes, wow, I signed up for 7.99/mo and remember it becoming 9.99/mo. I completely missed the 13.99/mo price hike.
Also check out what they’re doing if you happened to pay through Apple….
Makes sense. Never pay through Apple if there's any other option. Can't fault Google for that.
But even then, $16 per month for Youtube!? An adblocker is cheaper.
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me: can we have ad free videos with uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock?
google: we have ad free videos at home.
at home: YouTube Premium
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