what the fuck am i reading, so much efforts to get rid of ads. there is much easier way to do that - just buy russian vpn for 3$/month. no ads at all
So YouTube works in Russia, but is completely without ads?
yes
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if nobody pays for YouTube then YouTube will go away.
I'm prepared. I own a 10tb hard drive that is half-filled with YouTube videos I've backed up. That's 13,000-odd videos in 360p, all raring to go once YouTube bites the dust. Defending YouTube because we're afraid it will "go away" is the same Stockholm Syndrome that paralyzed people on Twitter for so long. I welcome a change that forces people onto more P2P-oriented services, the status-quo is obnoxious and unsustain…
I get the sentiment that Youtube viewers shouldn't have to put up with each of Google's whims, but the comparison seems overly reductive:
Would you also be fine with your favorite newspaper going out of business because you have all of their issues of the last 20 years in your basement?
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Here's hoping that, if they do it, they'll start blocking corporate TLS mitm regimes too.
Why? This isn't the 90s any more. You shouldn't use your employer's systems for anything other than work.
Hah, remember how Amazon invented "Cyber-Monday"? They claim the Monday after Thanksgiving when people go back to work it'll be their first encounter with Internet-connected computers after the Thanksgiving vacation, and it's the time where they'll be most busy shopping for Christmas presents...
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#405I just subscribe to YouTube premium to support my favorite application out there. I learn so much from the people who spend hours and hours making videos every month that I am more than happy to pay a measly $13 or whatever it is every month to YouTube.
At this point I would pay those people to stop making videos and start writing again. Sitting through a 15 minute video to explain something that can be read in 2 minutes is a waste of everyone's time.
I’m eagerly awaiting the day when some pirate site feeds the videos through a machine learning thingy and outputs an appropriate length text summary, with an appropriate number of screenshots for following along.
I’d want the summary and images to be verbatim from the video, but for it to strip crap like “hey, it’s been a while since I made my last video, as you can see behind me, nessie the cow is caught in a tree in my vertical farm wall again, which you can see another video about. Today, we are going to explain how to open this laptop, but first I’m going to talk about [product placement]”
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I'm prepared. I own a 10tb hard drive that is half-filled with YouTube videos I've backed up. That's 13,000-odd videos in 360p, all raring to go once YouTube bites the dust. Defending YouTube because we're afraid it will "go away" is the same Stockholm Syndrome that paralyzed people on Twitter for so long. I welcome a change that forces people onto more P2P-oriented services, the status-quo is obnoxious and unsustain…
I get the sentiment that Youtube viewers shouldn't have to put up with each of Google's whims, but the comparison seems overly reductive: Would you also be fine with your favorite newspaper going out of business because you have all of their issues of the last 20 years in your basement?
First I would archive, copy and redistribute the last 20 years of back-issues to the world. Then I'd see how I feel.
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I stopped paying for YT premium and figured out how to work ReVanced becuase YT premium doesn't actually block the minute-plus ads that creators put in their videos to ensure they actually get paid when YT stiffs them and ReVanced/Sponsorblock does.
Yes! I recommend the SponsorBlock addon for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
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No, they're not going to leave money on the table. Eventually you'll be seeing ads too. This is just a hook period. I don't understand how we as a culture haven't learned this already. This is at least the fourth or fifth generation of this with media. How things actually work should be common sense by now.
But the only reason to pay for Premium is not to see ads, so that wouldn't work.
Not seeing ads is a benefit of the service. Paying for premium is to support the video makers and, yes, the service itself.
Paying for things you use is how you signal you like the product. The insane contortions people resort to in order to justify piracy boggles my mind. You either pay by watching ads or you pay the premium price. No one is entitled to YouTube. YouTube has to be paid for in order for it to exist and the creators to make stuff. That is the reason to pay for premium.
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#409This is interesting, I’ve been trying to figure out the best solution for handling blackout rules for sports apps. You pay full price but they specifically block anything in your market which is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, you can slap an antenna on the back and view low resolution local stations assuming you’re picking up a decent signal.
Haven’t found the most elegant way. Probably the path of least resistance is getting a separate router and connect the devices AppleTV, firestick, etc to that. But then you’re going to be constantly swapping networks if you wanted to use a different app with location.
But even that feels weird because you’re paying monthly for a smart dns service just to appear in a different geolocation. There has to be a better way.
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Oh no, don't get me wrong, I'm not _rationalising_ freeloader behaviour. I'm saying Google _deserves_ to have freeloaders milking them for every bit they can. So does Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Amazon...
And it's just a convenient consequence of doing the "morally right" thing, that you happen to get your content for free? And content creators be damned?
No, I just happened to always have it for free. They are the ones that decided that it was a good deal in exchange for tracking me throughout the internet, stalking me. They are the ones that decided to make my watching experience miserable by putting unskippable ads. They are the ones that decided to make the videos I watch crap, because if they're not 10 minutes long with a perfectly engineered cover image, they won't pay out the creators and they won't show their content. They are the ones allowing literal hour-long ads. They are the ones that decided to make my home page """algorithmic""", which is really "oh you watched a video game ? Others like , you should watch it". They are the ones hiding, destroying, trying to piss me off by removing features one by one and putting them into Youtube Premium. Play in background ? High quality videos ? Not stopping autoplay every 30 minutes to ask me if I'm still here ? Picture-in-picture ? Adding to queue ? These are all features that they proudly displayed in blog posts saying how awesome they are, and that it'll always be free. Now, they blast me with popups telling me to get Youtube Premium. One per person in my household by the way, account sharing is bad and they must extract as much money as possible.
The content creators I support get their money on Patreon or whatever fundraising platforms they use. Same things for my favorite journals. The others ? Well, I don't care enough about them to think that I would pay for them. Maybe others will. And if they don't, well, they'll stop.