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Does Google pay for your PC, power or internet connection?
No, but they do pay the costs of hosting/serving the videos, which I thought was the relevant analogy to the service being used when driving on a road and there being billboards next to the road.
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Yes, but ultimately it is not my responsibility to make their business model viable. That's between them and Google - not me. I am not Google's accountant. They can figure it out.
It's not your responsibility. That's why Google makes you do it (pay or watch ads). Otherwise they can't pay creators and if they don't get paid then you don't get content you like to watch. Lose lose. So I'd say they kinda figured it out.
> In 2024 the company made a revenue of $350.01 Billion USD
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And auto repeat, sadly.
Auto-repeat is the thing that most mystifies me about shorts. I understand the idea behind auto-play, although I disable it; but who on earth wants to watch the exact thing they just watched by default ? Given the success of TikTok, the answer is apparently, "billions of people", but I just don't get it.
Wrong question.
The right question is: "Do we blindly copy Instagram?"
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Yes, but ultimately it is not my responsibility to make their business model viable. That's between them and Google - not me. I am not Google's accountant. They can figure it out.
It's not your responsibility. That's why Google makes you do it (pay or watch ads). Otherwise they can't pay creators and if they don't get paid then you don't get content you like to watch. Lose lose. So I'd say they kinda figured it out.
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Which opinions are you trying to access?
A non-comprehensive list of things youtube tells you to self censor or you will be financially punished, or punishes you for showing or telling despite not being listed in their community guidelines in any way Swears (recently backed down somewhat on this) Anything to do with guns at all, whether you are right wing or vocally and loudly left wing. Mummmifying a chicken on a science channel gets you demonitized. Chemi…
https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html
https://rumble.com/v28x6zk-sasha-latypova-msc.-nsa-team-enig...
(and so on; many other links)
I don't understand the reluctance of people to click Rumble links. I'd love to link you to stuff on Youtube but TPTB have decided you're not allowed to see it (this should be a very narrow category of things and those I linked and others absolutely should be allowed)
This is when they're doing outright censorship too and not just demonetization
They're a criminal cartel
You know who has great information density? Pornhub. If you open Pornhub on a 4K screen, you will absolutely see none of the thumbnails. I think YouTube is overdoing it, but it is really a thing of: people are either using really small screens or 1080p. 4K is still not around much.
Yes. 1080p screen density is still so popular. Looking around new laptops it's still the bulk in Windows land, including OLED and ultra high refresh rate monitors. Same for TVs. Even on macs many are using scaling factors that render close to 1080p. The issue really would be why YouTube can't bother managing more layouts. It still blows my mind there's only one single YouTube experience per platform, when their viewe…
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I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use... rumble and tiktok.
Youtube's censorship is one reason I won't pay for it. Rumble is a legitimate site even as people decry its existence (it would be less necessary if Youtube didn't decide on being the world's opinion police)
I pray you don't work for FAANG and have your thumbs on the scales and I stand by everything I said
It's difficult to capture into words how much contempt I hold for Google and Amazon, two companies which lost their way long ago and are now actively user-hostile. YouTube has gotten worse with every release. Endless, pointless UI changes. Sneaky resolution downgrades. When your video says "Auto 1080p" it's like 480p quality, manually choose 1080p and watch it change. Amazon has been working overtime to make your exp…
>entire energy is devoted to making their customer's lives more miserable If these changes are not hurting user metrics are they really making their lives miserable? When you are optimizing an experience for billions of users, numbers are the only thing you can trust.
Classic example: reactions and watch time as measuring engagement. Leads to shittier content being promoted because the more garbage something is, the more outraged people will be.
And that's why Facebook has "optimized" itself to be as shitty of a platform as humanly possible.
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> 1. It's not piracy. Simply re-asserting your opinion doesn't lend any extra weight to your argument. If both sides just repeat their opinions, that's not a discussion.
You don't seem to understand. Allow me to clarify. I'm not interested in winning some silly argument on Hacker News, I'm interested in using the internet without being spied on or paying out the ass. I just want all of the Very Good Boys and Girls who are doing unpaid public relations work for Google to understand why the rest of us don't care what they think.
Whatever, you already said you don't care about actual rational discourse and regard everyone else as (un)paid actors, so this is pointless.
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A non-comprehensive list of things youtube tells you to self censor or you will be financially punished, or punishes you for showing or telling despite not being listed in their community guidelines in any way Swears (recently backed down somewhat on this) Anything to do with guns at all, whether you are right wing or vocally and loudly left wing. Mummmifying a chicken on a science channel gets you demonitized. Chemi…
And everything to do with covid https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html https://rumble.com/v28x6zk-sasha-latypova-msc.-nsa-team-enig... (and so on; many other links) I don't understand the reluctance of people to click Rumble links. I'd love to link you to stuff on Youtube but TPTB have decided you're not allowed to see it (this should be a very narrow category of things and those I linked and others…