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I.... What? You're happy to _watch_ the pirated material for free, but you refuse to pay for it? (Not even challenging the fact they do aggressively take down copyrighted material) This is the most pathetic tortured excuse I have yet seen.
Please don't cross into incivility. Both sides of classic arguments need to stay civil and substantive to avoid the usual downward spiral.
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I.... What? You're happy to _watch_ the pirated material for free, but you refuse to pay for it? (Not even challenging the fact they do aggressively take down copyrighted material) This is the most pathetic tortured excuse I have yet seen.
Please don't cross into incivility. Both sides of classic arguments need to stay civil and substantive to avoid the usual downward spiral.
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Why not get red? It comes with free music streaming and eliminates all ads. It's not much at all.
I don't like the fact that YouTube requires red to play music with the screen off. I don't want to support YouTube and make them think that's alright.
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Look, bandwidth costs money. If you don't want to see ads, just subscribe to Youtube red. Don't be an asshole.
>Look, bandwidth costs money. You're right, and I already paid for it with my ISP. I only get a set amount of data each month, so you can be sure I'm going to block 100% of the ads I can to stop them from wasting my limited bandwidth.
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What I find interesting is that google/youtube doesn't circumvent adblockers, though they easily could, given that they own the whole ad supply chain. For example, they could make the ads indistinguishable from the actual video (in the html), or even splice the videos into one stream. My guess is they don't because a) they are wildly profitable anyway, and b) they don't want to alienate adblock users, especially the…
> they could make the ads indistinguishable from the actual video (in the html), or even splice the videos into one stream. And make ads unsuitable for the most egregious attacks on privacy, simple plain tracking or even as distribution channel for malware. Curiously, this nuclear option will make things better than the current situation.
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I don't like the fact that YouTube requires red to play music with the screen off. I don't want to support YouTube and make them think that's alright.
Uhh... That seems pretty silly actually.
Worse is when ad technology is prioritized and is set up more stably/reliably than the content itself. It’s one thing to sit through an ad before successfully watching something but quite another to put up with that and then see some obscure error code instead of the content you “paid” for with your ad eyeballs. I’ve had things fail 2 or 3 times, each time replaying the same ENTIRE ad without a hitch but then failing…
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Look, bandwidth costs money. If you don't want to see ads, just subscribe to Youtube red. Don't be an asshole.
> Look, bandwidth costs money. For the user too, do you think people have unlimited data plans? I'm not paying to see ads. > Don't be an asshole. Because insults are going to rally people to your cause?
So that's a weird excuse.
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Look, bandwidth costs money. If you don't want to see ads, just subscribe to Youtube red. Don't be an asshole.
When it's available in my region, sure. It's coming up to 2 and a 1/2 years old and still only available in 5 countries.
Huh, that's about right. It feels like it was released after that.
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Look, bandwidth costs money. If you don't want to see ads, just subscribe to Youtube red. Don't be an asshole.
> Look, bandwidth costs money. For the user too, do you think people have unlimited data plans? I'm not paying to see ads. > Don't be an asshole. Because insults are going to rally people to your cause?
My phone has unlimited data (only plan advertised by T-Mobile) but it's possible for my home internet not to be (restriction removed on the gigabit plan, which I have).
So if the company only cares about the US then...
"Hahaha yyolo rigt?!1!" - some exec