“the unthinkable”
Hyperbole much?
Unthinkable is signing up in the first place
They though the titanic unthinkable until they hit an itheburg.
Incontheivable!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kwfA1UB2Je0
edit: Yes, I realize the irony of linking YouTube here.
thanks Mike Tyson
*Mike Tython
…why? The music platform is solid, and far better designed than Spotify. I’ve been a member since it was called ‘Play Music’. And yeah, I’ve also had no ads but I signed up for the music service.
and assuming you can escape ADs, they will include ads and raise prices immediately, and people were touting how its better.
Was about to say the same. Unthinkable, I never even thought of subscribing in the first place!
Maybe watching ads is the unthinkable. It sure is for me, but I block them instead of paying.
Inconceivable!
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Didn’t come to mind.
They’re ’Muricans. You gotta give them some slack. Thinking doesn’t come naturally to them.
Sorry to interrupt the circlejerk, but the author is a Brit
I’ve made up my mind. Don’t confuse me with facts!
Here’s your gun and passport welcome to America
Healthcare is not included
Fuck off.
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.
Friends with benefits, just not necessarily the good kind.
DNS ad blocking doesn’t work on YouTube.
Is that different from smart tube for the phone, 'cause that app looks weird.
Should be this one SmartTube. Its a different client, so it doesn’t look like the regular YouTube app, bug you can login and have your feed. It includes adblock and sponsorblock.
I use it on my Firestick and it’s pretty much flawless.
I was going to comment this. Having super tech illiterate friends is painnnnnnn . they’re so bad with tech.
Last time I saw a youtube ad (on my devices) was when it was a small picture ad on the right side of the video.
They think delay before every video and “'experiencing interruptions? Find out why” banners are going to make me turn off my ubo. Good luck with that.
FoRcInG uSeRs To CoNsIdEr ThE uNtHiNkAbLe
Fuck off bootlickers
Lol, piracy, the logical solution.
There isn’t a single device in my home that shows YouTube ads.
I’ll jump through any hoop before I give that shit website money.
Aah, shit website but you still watch it… oh, the irony
Yet you participate in society. Curious.
I don’t think that soviety is shit. I think we have done wonderful things in society. And we keep making it better. Every society has its problems, but there is a way to make them better.
Without society there wouldn’t be literature, medicine, knowlidge, science, etc.
Yes, there are bad things also, but as I said, we can and must make them better. And if you watch in the long run through history there is no better time to be living than now.
Yup.
I think capitalism is shit but I’m still forced to participate in it. Until there is something better to use I’m stuck with YouTube.
Nobody is forcing you to consume content on the internet, this is a laughable defense. You aren’t forced by society or capitalism to watch YouTube.
You’re absolutely right.
However, if I can consume said content without giving money to companies who are going over and above to be anti-consumer? I’ll 100% take advantage of that.
If YouTube wants to go out of their way to make it harder for me to watch legally, I’ll go out of my way to watch illegally. You think I pay for 17 different streaming services for TV shows me or my partner want to watch? Fuck all that we pay for IPTV.
Pirates like me don’t want to have to jump hoops to watch your shit. But all these streaming platforms, Youtube, Twitch, the greed has become so hard to ignore that it’s impossible to rationalize paying them to fuck you anyway. Pay $18 a month for this service to watch this show, but this other show is on another service for another $16 a month. Fuck all that I’ll just open up whichever pirating site I have saved and download the fucking show in a half hour and toss it on my external HDD and watch it anyway.
I have no respect for companies that don’t respect their consumers.
I can respect the honesty that you just want shit for free at least lol
I can’t stand people that try to pretend that they’re taking a moral stand when they just don’t want to pay people for the work they consume.
There’s Peertube, Vimeo, and others
Okay. Let me know when the dozens of content creators I follow on YouTube migrate there.
“Content creators” lol. I mean, I guess there could be, but YT stopped being decent about 10 years ago, maybe longer. I haven’t used it but for an occasional video. Surprisingly, I haven’t missed it. There’s not much on YouTube I couldn’t get elsewhere, with less ads, and to the point vs a 10 minute video intro plus sponsor plugs, etc.
Lmao
And when they try to force online ID bullshit I’ll permanently walk away. We don’t deserve the WWW if its just full of scammers. I’d rather rewatch my favorite anime for the millionth time.
And the unthinkable is as blockers. Wow
Arrrrr
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?”
Haha yeah. It’s unthinkable that YouTube doesn’t make ANOTHER billion dollars.
Not aiding capitalism by canceling a subscription = suicide
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.
Cards are their own issue…
I had a bank that would always deny my purchase of a game with fraud detection, though I suspect it was because GOG was still banking in Gibraltar then, but then my card was actually stolen and they just let them spend $5 at every store in town until I was overdrawn by the maximum they allowed.
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.
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Get Revanced and you can also block shorts from the UI completely, on top of no ads
Yes, that was my entire point.
Morphe fixes most of that.
Well that’s exactly my point.
What is Morphe?
So the people making Revanced had an argument…
They split…morphe is a hard fork without a certain reddit mod…
IMO, the real talent has abandoned ship and are now producing Morphe.
It’s just like (re)vanced. It’s designed to patch apps so they work more how you want them to.
Interesting, thanks for the context
I have like 8 or 9 plugins for Firefox and just to make YouTube remotely usable. That doesn’t account for the 8 or 9 more on top of that to make the internet remote usable.
Soooo true. What service are you even paying for, they change their business focus and now you get shorts. The best way to viee youtube is with an ad free frontend.
in-video ads
They do actually have an in-built skip for this. It’s not as good as sponsor block though
You can get rid of the actually relevant issues with premium and giving negative reactions to unwanted content. I barely get shown AI stuff.
You can’t though. That was my entire point.
Well, I can.
The ‘unthinkable’ of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?
How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
The unthinkable? lmao
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??
Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it’s absurd and bad and all that.
I must be stupid, because I can never tell.
Are mice stupid for falling into traps designed for them?
You’re not stupid, you just need to learn done telltale signs. Most the time, for me, it’s post history.
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.
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Now is the time for peertube to shine
If I’m paying, it will be to nebula. YouTube is toxic.
I like nebula but I kinda miss having comments under the video. The negative comments can be overwhelming but I like seeing if other commenters noticed the same things I did and if the creator has responded to them.
laughs in:
NewPipe
Tubular
PipePipe
FreeTube
SkyTube
You have to frequently do some shenanigans to get things working because shit keeps breaking. I still do it, but it’s honestly annoying AF that i need to tinker with my apps like that all the time.
Shenanigans like, downloading an update? 😱
No, like fiddling with proxies to find a working one…if only it was just updating then I wouldn’t mind.
I’ve never had to do that on all three devices I watch YouTube on.
YouTube wasn’t loading videos on my phone Today so I opened Revanced. It said there was an update available to I clicked the update button. It installed the update and YouTube plays again.
Not exactly rocket science.
I’ve been using freetube for a little over a year, and I have to change something all the time (like every third time i open the app or something) otherwise videos just throw an error and won’t load. Same goes for my laptop (also freetube). Newpipe and revanced are even worse for me and some I never got working.
My PC is just Firefox with uBlock. I don’t remember the last time I had an issue. Maybe last summer?
My phone is Revanced. As I said videos weren’t loading. I went into the manager and it said there was an update available. I clicked Download. It asked if I wanted to install it. I clicked Install. Videos now load perfectly fine on my phone.
I use SmartTube on my Firestick for my TV. I’ve had one issue since I downloaded it last fall. A quick google/reddit search brought up an update a day or two before. Someone had the Downloader number. Open firestick, open Downloader app, put in number, download updated Smarttube, youtube worked perfectly.
Nothing I’ve done has taken more than a couple minutes at most to update if anything went awry. I think in the little over 8 months I’ve been using these I’ve maybe had a grand total of 4 times I had to update something. I’d have spent more time watching an unskippable ad than it took to update my phone’s Revanced this morning.
Revanced took me a little bit to get working on my phone the first time I was trying to get it set up. I watched a youtube tutorial (Ironic I know) how to get it set up and once it was working all I’ve had to do was update the manager from time to time, which I can do in-app.
Ok so we just have starkly dissimilar experiences, unfortunately for me it has been way more hassle than what you have experienced.
FreeTube has been going strong for me.
I’d gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.
At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.
But let’s be honest, they’re not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it’s just 5-9’s of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.
at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.
