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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by throwaway290 »

joquarky wrote: post #672
throwaway290 wrote: post #533

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It was fascinating to me for a bit but it gets old fast... consumer: I want to fill my content hole with content someone made through hard work right now and for free and how dare they delay that by 5 seconds after which I can press Skip. I will employ sophisticated tricks and run untrusted code in my browser to work around that delay. also consumer: I will totally not be pissed at all if there is no free content for…

This smells like psychological projection.

I just point out double standard

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

jdhwosnhw wrote: post #664
asldfkasgkj wrote: post #645

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Is it okay if I go the bathroom or get another beer while the commercials play? If so, why?

Thats like saying the grocery store is ok with me eating some of the grapes while I shop so they must be ok with me walking out without paying for my groceries. I’m not trying to be obtuse here. I really want to understand some sort of reasonable moral justification for actively avoiding paying for a service that you are using / circumventing the mechanism by which the business makes money.

> circumventing the mechanism by which the business makes money

This is generally of no interest to consumers.

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Post by port11 »

bentt wrote: post #546

I really don't understand why there are not sites that curate Youtube videos? Like, present basically the same recommendation UI, but just hand pick cool videos around different topics? Hell, it could even be like Reddit with voting... but the algorithmic recommendation engine that Youtube uses is NOT aligned with my interests. It's aligned ONLY with my behavior. I want to learn! I want to explore! I do NOT want to g…

Maybe it's not financially viable? Or the admins don't want to depend on a third-party like that? Dunno.

URLIST was really great for this sort of things but they never made enough money.

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Post by drdeca »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #651
drdeca wrote: post #599

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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.

Is the department of transportation owned those billboards and used them to fund the roads I would feel 0% more obligated to look at them.

Sure, but it would make the analogy valid.

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Post by qingcharles »

aidenn0 wrote: post #193
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #12

I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use it through the browser with adblockers. (Yes, on my phone and iPad.) It works so well I’ve gotten at least half a dozen neighbours to do the same. If you haven’t tried it, it’s a definitive step up in UX.

Anyone else notice that most youtube ads are really bad . Seeing a product in a youtube ad now causes me to be more likely to believe it's a ripoff. Things like a cheap $5 fan being sold for $60 as roughly: "Super efficient A/C that will save you $100s on your electricity bill and can cool a room down in just minutes"

There was one that kept popping up for me for about six weeks which was literally just talking you through how to run a script to "make millions with crypto" but which actually just transferred all your funds to the advertiser's wallet.

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Post by 5kg »

drivers99 wrote: post #169

There are 0 videos on my YouTube homepage, just a screen asking me to turn on history. Just the way I like it. Here’s what I did: Go into the YouTube app, settings, manage all history, under the history tab hit Delete -> delete all time. Then go to controls (still in the manage all history dialog box under settings), under YouTube history hit Turn off. It says “pausing…” Hit Pause, and Got it. It’s been exactly 3 mon…

Best decision I made this year.

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Post by its_ethan »

aspaviento wrote: post #708
its_ethan wrote: post #681

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Who is claiming that using a streaming site is piracy? No one is saying that lol What the guy was saying is that circumventing payment to watch a movie = pirating, and it seems like you're saying that's not the case. It seems you're saying that people saying "pirating" are referring circumventing payment and distributing, which is not at all what the majority of people mean by pirating. Pirating != distribution for t…

> Who is claiming that using a streaming site is piracy? No one is saying that lol literally OP: > "watch free movies online" and find a site streaming bad DVD rips

So "streaming service" (the term you used) implies something like Netflix or Hulu or something, which is a paid service and definitely not piracy. At least in the USA that's how that term is used.

I'm not actually sure what you're issue is at this point. In the US, if someone says they're going to "pirate a movie" they are assuredly not talking about how they are going to be the one distributing the movie, just consuming it - whether that's on a "streaming" site or just downloaded and watched locally.

It seems like your argument is that "piracy" is much more specific than how people actually use the word. SO it's a semantics thing, and that's really fucking stupid lol

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