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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

Triphibian wrote: post #371
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #266

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If the only content you find on YouTube is trash that sounds like a you problem. My feed is filled with high effort content.

I have found quality content. Notice how the people who work hard to make content outside YouTube's incentives need an external Patreon to fund their work? Why should I pay to fund the Mr. Beasts while the quality creators have to find funding outside the system? Also: I am sure you've seen it -- a creator you like or admire starts succumbing to the incentives, making sillier and sillier thumbnails or "experimenting"…

The money you pay for premium goes directly to the people you watch. Don't watch Mr. Beast and he won't get your money.

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Post by leereeves »

olegious wrote: post #231
inetknght wrote: post #213

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The only happy ending for everyone is zero ads.

Then subscribe and pay for the service. One way or another someone has to pay for the content.

Paying YouTube is just rewarding them for years of anti-competitive behavior. Subscribe to a service that isn't a near monopoly.

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Post by asdff »

paulcole wrote: post #291
hkt wrote: post #152

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The data of rich profiles is enormously valuable to Google. They allow Google unparalleled ability to target ads elsewhere, too. That's the game.

OK, but they make YouTube. They make the rules of the game. Pay for it with $$$ or by watching Ads, don’t watch YouTube, or pretend there’s some kind of morality in stealing it.

They gotta realize its a bigger game then, they don't get to be the only people making selfish rules. As long as people can create tooling to separate the wheat from the chaff, that's what people will be doing. If ads were considered fully benign people wouldn't spend time making, sharing, installing tooling to bypass them. Since google et al has accepted they will continue to do the unpopular thing, they shouldn't act surprised that people try and make things slightly better for themselves as they are able to.

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Post by burnerburnito »

philistine wrote: post #286
thaumasiotes wrote: post #269

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Youtube-dl (well, yt-dlp, the non-dead version) will ignore the ads.

yeah but how do you setup a one-stop-shop solution to download the new videos from channels you follow?

Consider freetube for a braindead simple mechanism. Alternatively, I believe MPV can suit your needs with some more elbow grease.

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Post by thehappypm »

t0bia_s wrote: post #349
thehappypm wrote: post #193

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I think this is a bad take, because YouTube is a rare web service that allows you to just pay them directly. Then you aren’t the product anymore

How many hours daily you spend on YT?

Me? About 0

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Post by acdha »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #374
acdha wrote: post #365

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So why do you still use their service if you don’t like them so much? Whether or not you approve of the rules someone sets for use of their private property doesn’t affect their legal rights, so it seems you shouldn’t be helping them.

I use many things that aren't perfect, lacking any better option. I didn't have time this week to become Jeff Bezos and buy Google and fix Youtube.

That begs the question of why it’s so critical to have an unlimited supply of mediocre video – you don’t need to build a competitor, just find another outlet for your spare time which is hardly a challenge.

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Post by acdha »

mistercheph wrote: post #376
acdha wrote: post #154

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YouTube offers their service under specific terms: watch ads or pay directly. If you don’t like it, your only ethical option is not using it. It’s not a basic need and anyone can live a happy and full life without it, there’s no need to pretend that not keeping your side of the agreement is somehow just if you squint hard enough.

I will write down my ethical obligation to Google on a piece of paper and wipe my arse with it. The only ethical obligation that exists is on American legislators and regulators to bring down the hammer of justice, smashing Alphabet and co-conspirators into one hundred thousand grains of sand and blow them into the wind. And thanks for the life advice acdha, but I'm quite happy to continue 'stealing' every single sec…

Hey, it’s your life. I’m just asking people to be honest about what they’re doing. That said, if you really think we’d be better off without YouTube I’m not sure how giving them your support and attention is going to get you closer to that goal.

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Post by nirav72 »

mvdtnz wrote: post #92
_huayra_ wrote: post #14

Maybe it's just A/B testing, but I got the "3 strikes and no more video playback" thing, which this DOM element blocking doesn't work around it seems :( After years of procrastinating, I'm finally gonna get around to setting up a basic homelab to run pihole. Thanks, youtube execs and bean counters, for kicking my lazy ass into gear on this! In a way, I kinda wish that ads worked as well as youtube suggestions. If one…

Mate if you get so much value from YouTube that you'll jump through these hoops just to use it without ads, why not just subscribe to premium? Personally it's by far my most bang-for-buck service.

Good luck getting support from google/youtube if you have issues with your premium account. Like a friend of mine who recently decided to setup a family group on his google account, so he can include immediate family members in his household so they can access youtube via premium family plan. Nope. He got a message saying he can only switch to a new family group once every 12 months. He spent a day looking around trying to figure how to get support from an actual human being at google to resolve the issue. No luck so far. In the end, he cancelled his youtube premium.

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Post by Brian_K_White »

acdha wrote: post #396
Brian_K_White wrote: post #374

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I use many things that aren't perfect, lacking any better option. I didn't have time this week to become Jeff Bezos and buy Google and fix Youtube.

That begs the question of why it’s so critical to have an unlimited supply of mediocre video – you don’t need to build a competitor, just find another outlet for your spare time which is hardly a challenge.

It does not beg any such question, merely you presume.

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Post by epgui »

travoc wrote: post #203
epgui wrote: post #182

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Here’s a crazy idea… I don’t want to give any money to Google, but I would happily pay double the amount in taxes to get public infrastructure of comparable quality.

You want a government-run YouTube?

Yes.

(I mean, that’s the hard variation of what I said… A softer variation would allow for public-corporate partnerships, or would merely regulate corporate activity much more.)

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