• nighty@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    They have really gone all out on the whole enshittification process during the past couple of years, haven’t they?

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    1 year ago

    As fill-in ads are a vector for computer viruses and other malware I for one will NOT be disabling my ad blocker unless YouTube is willing to provide a lifetime subscription to something like Life Lock and make me whole for anything lost to whatever malware arrives as a part of an ad.

    Where else can I watch sci-show, Linus-tech-tips, and all the other channels I subscribe to?

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      1 year ago

      Just use newpipe. It’s youtube without the ads. Doesn’t have casting support, but it allows you to download the videos. You can also listen/download to the audio of videos, without fetching the video.

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        1 year ago

        Newpipe will probably be blocked as well if youtube is doing this. Honestly not sure why youtube hasn’t blocked yt-dlp and others already.

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          1 year ago

          It’s not easily block able as it scrapes the YouTube website. They’d have to stop having a website for that to happen.

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            1 year ago

            Honestly curious if they’d ever consider that, considering how popular watching youtube on the phone is, so I could see them trying to get even desktop users to use an app to prevent 3rd party launchers

            If they did though, it would probably cause at least a decent number of people to try to find alternatives

            At the end of the day, the main way the fediverse gets new users is the big tech companies screwing up

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    1 year ago

    They already get a lot of 💰from ad revenue, charging for a subscription just made that revenue even bigger.

    It’s possible they’re losing some coins here and there from the ad revenue that they’ve become so aggressive 😆

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    1 year ago

    When will companies finally understand that some people won‘t watch ads no matter what tricks they employ. I‘d rather watch no video at all than a single ad. If that is their goal, fine.

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    1 year ago

    I actually do not understand the widespread hostility that people have toward this kind of thing. I watch a lot of content on YouTube, and I don’t want to see ads, so I pay for premium. I watch a lot of content on Twitch, and I don’t want to see ads, so I pay for turbo. Hosting a major video streaming website isn’t cheap. It’s not like these things are unreasonably priced. If you hate the ads so much, then why not pay for the service that the platform is offering you, and for the content that creators are providing on it? And if you don’t watch often enough for ad-free viewing to be worth a few bucks a month to you, then why get so worked up about having to sit through an ad every now and then?

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      I can’t speak for everyone, but I block ads and don’t pay because I hate Google. In addition to their repeated violations of user privacy, they go out of their way to disable OS features unless you pay them. Like disabling background play or PiP with Safari on iOS. Those features use the same open standards as foreground web browsers, so it literally takes extra effort to break them. Effort that could instead be used to fix the numerous problems with their platform, which they don’t. I refuse to reward that behaviour.

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    1 year ago

    When you have a goose that produces a reliable daily supply of golden eggs do you:

    1. keep collecting your daily egg
      or
    2. see if giving it a good kick or two gets you more eggs
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    1 year ago

    YouTube is the only Google service I use on a regular basis. Happy to leave them behind if they continue with this type of behavior.

    It would be less convenient, but it is what it is and if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s ads.

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      1 year ago

      The great thing about using free open-source software is the immunity from corporate shenanigans.

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    I feel like extensions are pretty savvy for fixing this. If not, I will waste less time on YouTube. Hell, why not another big site getting over my limit for hoops that are worth jumping through vs value I get.

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      1 year ago

      Yup, a lot of my time got wasted on YouTube… I watched “educational” and “interesting” videos but I have to say that many of the creators got caught into enshittification process too… I would do well with 95% reduction in watch time. However, if they start a real war against adblockers… 100% reduction will it be.