The ads make it pretty bad. They’d have to work really hard to make it worse without ads.
Oh no are there going to try to block the ad blockers but then the ad blockers block the ad blockers blockers? When will it end? They can keep on trying to make it worse but people will just keep figuring out how to bypass it.
Not the vibe here by the look of the comments but for me YT premium is worth it. There’s a lot of great stuff on YouTube and it’s nice watching it all ad free in HD on my TV without ads. I realize hosting, streaming, and producing that content isn’t free and I don’t mind supporting it.
Does that include Sponsorblock? Otherwise you still see ads, just from the content creators and not from YouTube.
Yeah true, those are skippable though
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Do payouts for creators increase if people that watch them have premium? If not you are not buying it for the good content but for the service infrastructure
From what most creators I’ve seen who talk about it say, premium users are worth more than ad supported users. There are more ad supported users overall than paying premium subscribers though. Pushing people to a more predictable subscription service would benefit YouTube by making it less dependent on advertisers and not as affected by ad blockers so I can unfortunately see why they are considering changes like this.
you are […] buying it […] for the service infrastructure
Which in and of itself is fine, I suppose. 👍 Depending on the price, of course.
Oh, do you want my viewing experience to be worse? Well don’t worry, because I’m doing my best so PeerTube has quality content in a weekly basis, while you also have the same content in a monthly basis.
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It’s google, they will find a way.
What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do? Are they afraid of pushing youtube down the cliff?
I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular
@TangledHyphae @technology
Then, use a program that is a different YouTube Front End.On Android phones, you can download NewPipe or LibreTube from the F-Droid store. These will allow you to subscribe to channels and to watch without ads.
You can use Invidious instances or you can setup your own to watch through a website.
Invidious Instances: https://docs.invidious.io/instances
Invidious GitHub Code: https://github.com/iv-org/invidiousBecause YouTube does not pay most creators enough to live on, please support your favorite YouTubers using Patreon, Locals, or wherever.
No YouTube. It is YOU that is stuck with ME and I will make YOUR experience worse.
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I noticed it’s too slow these days
I mean… it definitely will if you turn off your ad blocker.
Yeah, I’ve been on YouTube with ads and if it weren’t for the Skip Ads button I could not tolerate it. Try to watch a 10 minute video and it starts with a 3 minute ad. How is that remotely reasonable?
How could it get worse?
Wonder how much money they’ve wasted trying to block the blockers
Considering they can use this knowledge to apply it to the entire Google ecosystem, I’d say they aren’t wasting money in learning about new ways to fuck us over.
It’s even more weird all that invested time into people who are going to find ways to block them either way, instead of focusing on their userbase that doesn’t use them. Seems like they are rummaging through the couch cushions for pennies at this rate.
Since this whole debacle started, they’ve just made ad blockers more prevalent to people who didn’t know about them. Ad blocker use is actually up now compared to when they started making this a big deal. So, in a way, they actually screwed themselves.
Ah, the good ol’ Streisand effect.
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Freetube I found to be easier since I haven’t needed to do any tinkering since I got it, and plus side has been not needing an account to have a personal subscription feed.
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And I warn Google that it would have to first find and suck my cock real good for me to consider allowing it to do that.
