I'm taking this meme too seriously, and not in a good way. ๐
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Then God created newpipe
ITT: lots of unpaid youtube premium shills.
If youtube wants me to pay for their service, they can offer a service worth paying for instead of purposefully degrading their free service into an unusable mess in an attempt to force my hand.
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Do I hate giving money to Google? Yes. Do I watch 6+ hours of Youtube a day? Also yes. I almost always have something playing in the background throughout my day, so it's the one service I'm ok paying for and I don't have to worry about it breaking like I would with other frontends.
Yeah, but it's not Youtube making the content I guess is my problem. Everyone is mostly here because of all the Reddit crap, doing the EXACT same thing google did to videos with youtube. No one here is completely fine with a "Reddit Premium Account!"^tm^ I patron a few creators so I help with what I can, I will not join the youtube "member" additional fee. I also have been trying to branch out to creators that upload to multiple sites, it can be a little bit of a pain like figuring out Lemmy and how everything works but obviously it's better than sticking with a company gouging and controlling content on their platform for profit.
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If paying for a service you use is the worst thing you can imagine, you really need to read the news at least once a decade.
Of all the current media subscription services, this is the one I have no issue paying for. The service I get for the money I pay is appropriate. I've taken my own measures to limit the amount of PII that Google can vacuum up from my life as well. I'm fine with them knowing what I like to watch and providing algorithmic recommendations for new content. I police said algorithm aggressively to ensure its always on topic and never trying to show me ragebait or shit I don't want to see.
When the day comes that the cost outweighs the return I'll stop paying for it and use Grayjay or Newpipe or whatever other option there is. If its a full on dystopia by then, well y'know what? I don't need Youtube to survive. I'll be fine without it.
I am displeased with premium these days. My use of premium was to remove ads and give creators a little more money. The issue today is every single video will have a sponsor spot that is an ad. So here I am paying extra to get rid of ads and the creator just made their own. Using sponsor block has become a requirement to get past the wall of ads.
They're testing a function where it quickly skips to a point most people skip to effectively skipping sponsors. At least I got that experiment.
I use sponsorblock on PC.
me too, and on newpipe android tv app and on revanced android app.
I don't mind in video sponsor spots because at least the creators are being paid directly for those. Personally, I just skip em or if it's a creator that makes them funny, I may just listen anyway.
I don't like these segments because they are either unavailable in my region or they are a promotion of a shitty product like Op**a **, that later will get called out for being from a terrible company.
Those sponsor spots absolutely blow my mind. They're there, forever in the video no matter how times it's viewed. That's a lot of trust to have in an advertising relationship, both the creator (who is basically tattooing a person in a portrait they're painting with an ad) and company have to determine if it's enough compensation based on..... feels I guess lol. I'm pretty sure there is some after data but how do you know which videos take off or not? Then if there's any controversy, whole things a mess and I hope they get a lot for it.
Yeah I often think the same.
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I thought the devil created Chihuahuas with that chance
Can confirm; roommate has a chihuahua.
Remember when the big selling point of cable TV was no advertising? And then it became 99% ads?
Yeah.
ummm I was born ~90 and I've always seen commercials. don't take it the wrong way, but when were you born???
Before the 90s. I think the best time for cable TV was between 1982 and 88. MTV wasn't crap. The History Channel had actual history shows and the Discovery Channel always had top notch science shows. We also had "Night Flight" on "USA's Up All Night." They would run back to back episodes, starting at 9pm on Saturday nights and ending around 4-5am Sunday.
Anyone who remembers 80s cable TV should feel incredibly ripped off by what they're showing today.
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19,99$ only ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ