I wonder what effect it will have on Invidious. By the way, this seems to coincide with their attempts to kill it [1].
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YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
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#42I get that people hate companies but $7 a month for unlimited video on any device with 500 hours uploaded every minute. That's a decent deal. The only drawback is that you don't get Sponsorblock on smart devices. People seem to overestimate how much the average person care about online outrage. Netflix, Reddit, Twitter.. They all seem fine despite being declared dead numerous times.
I think I would pay for a respectful video service which also pays the people who make the videos.
Giving money to Google though, would hurt so much!
I'll consider it the day they stop the dark patterns company wide and commit to stop being ad-supported. Making the users pay for the service is a step in the right direction but I don't see them stop the ads company wide and I don't want to feed this.
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#43I get that people hate companies but $7 a month for unlimited video on any device with 500 hours uploaded every minute. That's a decent deal. The only drawback is that you don't get Sponsorblock on smart devices. People seem to overestimate how much the average person care about online outrage. Netflix, Reddit, Twitter.. They all seem fine despite being declared dead numerous times.
I think I would pay for a respectful video service which also pays the people who make the videos. Giving money to Google though, would hurt so much! I'll consider it the day they stop the dark patterns company wide and commit to stop being ad-supported. Making the users pay for the service is a step in the right direction but I don't see them stop the ads company wide and I don't want to feed this.
YouTube is actually regarded quite high in terms of revenue sharing and Linus has praised them numerous times. It's for example partly (26% in 2020) why LTT have around 100 employees. YouTube do have a ton of other issues (spam, lack of support, content moderation, etc) but I don't believe revenue sharing is a big one.
https://twitter.com/BobDuckNWeave/status/1613846589482598403
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/100fmgx/linu...
Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
#44I get that people hate companies but $7 a month for unlimited video on any device with 500 hours uploaded every minute. That's a decent deal. The only drawback is that you don't get Sponsorblock on smart devices. People seem to overestimate how much the average person care about online outrage. Netflix, Reddit, Twitter.. They all seem fine despite being declared dead numerous times.
When I glance at https://youtube.com/premium it quotes $12 a month. Are you talking about the student offer?
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#46I pay for twitch turbo, I even had youtube tv during football season. So I'm not that cost sensitive, and don't oppose giving youtube money for a service.
But logging in on every browser and device I watch youtube on? Fuck, I'd rather not. Also, I never login to my personal google account at work.
Before google bought youtube, my account there was called something like "duntwantacct".
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#47I get that people hate companies but $7 a month for unlimited video on any device with 500 hours uploaded every minute. That's a decent deal. The only drawback is that you don't get Sponsorblock on smart devices. People seem to overestimate how much the average person care about online outrage. Netflix, Reddit, Twitter.. They all seem fine despite being declared dead numerous times.
I remember people saying years ago that reddit's redesign is not a problem because it has API access and you can use third party clients... The $7 is the current price, it does not reflect future changes. If the pool of potential customers is dry, they will try other means of increasing revenue, including increases of that price. They might also turn the $7 into a requirement to watch YouTube at all, and show ads any…
> They might also turn the $7 into a requirement to watch YouTube at all, and show ads anyways.
Yep. All cable channels started out ad-free. When cable was introduced, the cost was $35/mo for all channels (there were no movie channels initially), justified by not having ads.
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#48>> Before the reliance on ad blockers, people turned to YouTube Vanced to enjoy a Premium-like experience for free. However, the service was shuttered in March last year due to legal pressure from Google. With ad blockers now seemingly on the way out, it looks like free users may only be left with the option of sitting through ads
That is simply not true. There are numerous alternatives to YouTube Vanced, including NewPipe, LibreTube or SkyTube. Only to name a couple. And then there still is invidious. So no, you don't have to sit through ads.
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#49I get that people hate companies but $7 a month for unlimited video on any device with 500 hours uploaded every minute. That's a decent deal. The only drawback is that you don't get Sponsorblock on smart devices. People seem to overestimate how much the average person care about online outrage. Netflix, Reddit, Twitter.. They all seem fine despite being declared dead numerous times.
$7 sounds great, I’d pay that. They want £16 a month from me, that’s $20 a month.
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#50I wonder if we're gonna see an ad-blocker-blocker-blocker kinda race going on here. As long as the code runs in the users' browser, there should be a way around it.
Makes me wonder if they'll ever move to WASM... though I assume there's gonna be ways to block ads regardless.