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Folks, just pay for YouTube Premium. In my family, between my kids and myself we watch more YouTube than Netflix/Disney+/Hulu combined so the YouTube family plan is the best value going.
It needs some work, but it downloads a video locally, bypassing ads and great for offline use.
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Huh? Who thinks of youtube in an emergency? How about 911?
Serious question, should I call 911 if someone is chocking and I don’t know what to do? Would the operator instruct me what to do over the phone?
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> I don't want my history tracked and suggestions personalized. I am genuinely curious, how do you find videos worth your time without recommendations? 99.9% of what’s on YouTube I have zero interest in, the recommendation engine is how I cull the noise and actually find things to watch.
> I am genuinely curious, how do you find videos worth your time without recommendations? Not without recommendations. I just want the default recommendations directly related to the video I currently watch, ignoring what other videos I watched before. How do I find? I just search for a particular subject (maybe also specify the author) whenever I want/need and have time to watch/read something.
Some prompt crafting-type technique of seeding the recommender with deliberate sequences of videos is probably possible. Youtube's system really is remarkably responsive to this kind of logged-out browsing, unlike most others.
Tangentially, there's a lot of praise for TikTok on HN, but I've never found anything compelling there myself.
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Bullshit. The whole and only point of Premium is that it has no ads. If they add them for paid users too they'll lose pretty much all of them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/business/media/netflix-am... https://www.polygon.com/23300486/disney-plus-subscription-ad... https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17761760/twitch-prime-tur... Like the above sites, later on you will need to buy Youtube Premium Pro to actually get ad free youtube experience. Later on the current premium will definitely have ads.
> Later on the current premium will definitely have ads.
I take it you work on the strategy of YouTube?
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I already pay with my data. Why would I also pay them money?
I pay for my car. Why would I pay the supermarket for the groceries it will transport?
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> I don't want my history tracked and suggestions personalized. I am genuinely curious, how do you find videos worth your time without recommendations? 99.9% of what’s on YouTube I have zero interest in, the recommendation engine is how I cull the noise and actually find things to watch.
> I am genuinely curious, how do you find videos worth your time without recommendations? Not without recommendations. I just want the default recommendations directly related to the video I currently watch, ignoring what other videos I watched before. How do I find? I just search for a particular subject (maybe also specify the author) whenever I want/need and have time to watch/read something.
Everyone should be doing this monthly anyways since YT recommendations along with your viewing trends can eventually get too narrow. Nice to reset it.
Folks, just pay for YouTube Premium. In my family, between my kids and myself we watch more YouTube than Netflix/Disney+/Hulu combined so the YouTube family plan is the best value going.
How long before YouTube Premium starts to show ads? Netflix already does it.
It feels like I get to watch 1 minute video between adverts now, and YouTube is nearing the point where I just don't give a damn about it anymore.