Technology

Ironic that just yesterday I was getting blocked on youtube telling me that adblocking was illegal/against tos/whatever and that if i didnt want Ads I could subscribe to Youtube Premium.. only now to announce ads on premium.

What a fucking shithole company.

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and they continue to take no accountability for failing to police their own ads, thus creating the essential need for adblocking services in the first place.

WE WOULDNT BE BLOCKING ADS IF YOU REGULATED ADVERTISERS LIKE YOU ARE TRYING TO REGULATE VIEWERS.

When options like uBlock and FreeTube no longer block ads, I'll stop watching YouTube. They'll never get a cent out of me.

If it weren't Google, I wouldn't be against paying. Fuck Google.

This is literately the equivalent of cable.

YouTube already had too many ads, and I stopped using as a result. That was several months ago. I guess I'll just have to stop using it even harder.

No time like the present to begin creating a European alternative, given the geopolitics of the times.

I would actually pay for YT premium if it was reasonably priced and I think there are many like me. Why are they shooting themselves in the foot?

It feels insane to me that you're paying and you still get ads. I fucking refuse to do that

I tried watching a 30 minute video on YouTube the other day and it injected ads every 1 minute for the entire video. Fuck Google. Fuck YouTube. Fuck Alphabet.

It's a sad state of affairs. I would pay for youtube in a heartbeat if it wasn't connected to the biggest spyware company in the world. But now, even while paying you still get ads and they still track you. The people working at Alphabet are bad and should feel bad.

Premium Lite? What paid benefits are there to YouTube other than removing ads?

I'm self-hosting Invidious... I get a nice, free YouTube experience without ever visiting YouTube.

Common People, Black Mirror Season 7

YT is only usable with ad blockers nowadays. And then it does not make a difference if you have a subscription or not.

I would subscribe YT if they had a reasonably priced ad free tier, but if it does not make a difference, I'll watch it for free.

No; I don't think there will be.

I'd love to see a transition to other platforms like Nebula. As users it would be nice to start choosing by principles too.

How about we collectively say fuck youtube and move content to Odysee or something else?

I'm fine with uBlock, but wouldn't it be better if we just kill alphabet progressively? I'm already out Gsuite (nextcloud), gmail (own server), search (duckduckgo), chrome (firefox), I dont even link my phone to a gmail account. i just need to get ride of yt.

YouTube has so many ads now it's ridiculous. Yesterday YouTube threatened me with the popup even though I have UBlock on Firefox. I've seen 10 ads on a 20 minute video. As if the un-skipabble 2 minute long ads that pause when you switch tabs wasn't bad enough, YouTube is now putting ads in their Premium.

YouTube is in dire need of a big competitor and fast.

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