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Just let me buy an MP4 legally for $5 and I will buy every movie.
Hell, I'd be happy to pay full price to have this option. All my devices run Linux and apparently there is no amount of money that will let me stream paid content above 480p.
Is that why Youtube has become unwatchable?
It's a tool like anything else. I learn SO MUCH from Youtube. Watching someone DIY something where they show all the steps, makes it so accessible. I then learn from them and create some really intricate things from different domains without any formal training. I'm talking car repairs, electrical engineering, woodworking, metal work, gardening, 3d printing. The list goes on and on.
Expect a full-on slop tsunami, with people running bots that first generate half facts and outright hallucinations from Gemini, and then generate a visual tutorial for it to post to YouTube.
"For the DIYer, a tutorial on strengthening beams. Step 1: rub glue on them."
Not that TV is all that great most of the time either, but if YouTube is the future I feel sorry for people who have to live in that timeline. As a thought exercise, what would YouTube recommend as related videos next to Breaking Bad episodes?
In a word, way less free. And more commercials. All you pirates with your archives and torrents. You are Luke Skywalker here.
SmartTube on Android TV. Brilliant, makes YouTube usable, Sponsorblock baked in.
I was pleasantly surprised YouTube came out with a first party tool to skip sponcon.
> https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/30/youtubes-ai-powered-jump-a...
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Grooveshark, that's a name I've not heard in a while... But even Spotify are putting the price up this year. I bet if something like that happened, it'd quickly soar to $0.2 an episode in the next year, then slowly creep up more and more.
> I bet if something like that happened, it'd quickly soar to $0.2 an episode in the next year, then slowly creep up more and more Yeah probably, until they find the point where more people leave because it's too expensive than they'll earn by raising prices, then they'll oscillate or find a new direction. Isn't that how capitalism is supposed to work?
In my circle, piracy is making a comeback. We're tired of having to hunt down streaming services, and be extorted for hundreds of euro a month, just to see ads for their own programs. Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.
I pirated for many years until Netflix had everything when I was in high school. Roughly around the time I got a job I stopped pirating games and bought everything on Steam. There is still some annoyance with other launchers besides Steam but, I endure. Its been a long time now but probably around when South Park left Netflix, I started pirating again. Now I have a massive Plex server and home lab dedicated to piracy…
Plex is a pretty light-weight system as long as transcoding is avoided or it has hardware transcoding available to use.
And wrangling Usenet is a fairly simple affair on vaguely modern PC hardware, too.
So all of that stuff runs in the background on the same desktop Linux box that I also use for everything else.
Am I doing it wrong?
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SmartTube on Android TV. Brilliant, makes YouTube usable, Sponsorblock baked in.
I don't understand why you wouldn't just get yt premium. You get the same features and it pays out well. YouTube premium views are like gold nuggets for creators.
If not, then I still need to have a custom app/browser extension... at which point why would I pay for subscription anyway?
My personal theory on this is prestige TV is in a recession. After Game of thrones season 8, people wonder why they should invest into a show when there’s a high chance it won’t pay off. Even for a good show it can feel like work. That plus the high cost for studios and over abundance of supply, meant studios pulled back. Instead we’re seeing a reemergence of low effort TV. And YouTube plays nicely into that. At some…
GoT was going downhill way before the final season. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by investing in a show. TV watching should be enjoyable, you dont have to watch things you dont like hoping for a payoff later on.
We need a politically uncensored version (within the law) of YouTube. Things like Rumble do not work well, they are not technically polished. It's a good side project for X.
What does that mean "politically uncensored within the law"?
In a word, way less free. And more commercials. All you pirates with your archives and torrents. You are Luke Skywalker here.
Youtube subscription is worth it IMO. No ads, just have to deal with live reads but youtube has a skip button for those.
Sponsorblock takes care of >95% of those.