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[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Of course they would. They just showed that people by far watch YouTube more than any other individual streaming service, and that they make more in ad revenue than most other streaming services.

Other streaming services have long, annoying, unskippable ads too. If YouTube has a lot of marketshare, and knows a lot of people aren't gonna get the content from, say, their favorite YouTuber, on something like Disney+, they can add all the unskippable ads they want as long as it's close enough to the other streaming services to make people not decide to watch different content entirely.

[–] cristian64@reddthat.com 5 points 3 hours ago

NewPipe, Tubular, FreeTube, Grayjay, ...

I'll never watch ads; that's an unbreakable rule. If at some point third-party apps can no longer serve video, then I won't watch it (and I'll be finally liberated from their monopoly).

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 8 points 5 hours ago

Can I ask any content creators to consider Peertube first? Youtube can be set up to pull your videos from Peertube via RSS. That way you can use Youtube as a platform where folks can find and watch you, but you can also keep your content and build your community on YOUR own platform?

[–] Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

One of the very first things I installed on my Fire cube was SmartTube the YouTube ads were so ridiculous already I found it unwatchable.

I wish it had a real rival but realistically nobody's in a position to pay content creators really except them.

[–] scott@lem.free.as 1 points 48 minutes ago
[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

and then they wonder why the general public works so hard to get around ads. I had no problem when it was a short 5ish second ad at the beginning. Servers and video hosting are expensive, I get it.

Now? Now it's pure unadulterated greed. We passed the "keep the lights on" moment a long time ago, this is just a cash cow for them.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 8 points 7 hours ago

The Quest for More Money™ always means that deal you made for paying for no ads is only valid until that graph needs to go up even higher.

Theyre darth Vader, but there is no praying they dont alter the deal any further - it will be altered, its just a matter of when.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

They can make the ads 2 hours for all I care. Haven't seen one in years

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Unskippable? The fire stick I bought for £20 begs to differ.

(Or just run in a browser, but this is for a TV solution)

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world -3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Do you think TOS should be enforceable?

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

No, if you need to so far as to have a complicated ToS, then it should be a proper contract complete with signatures on actual paper. Same for any amendments with the option to stay on the original agreement at the time of sale.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I agree that it should be more like a proper contract and that people should understand it. It’s absurd that we have this structure where it’s implied you read even a single word of a TOS.

People should be attacking things like this. Not just boasting on social media about clients that hack YouTube.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 9 points 6 hours ago

I don't have a general opinion, but given that youtube used to be an entirely free service that people put videos on with no expectation of being paid, and then google bought it, made it an effective monopoly, and have slowly turned it into the monetisation monster it is today, I don't think anyone owes them anything.

Also you have the right to control what content appears on your device. You are under no obligation to watch an advert just because a megacorp says so. By putting something on the internet (without a login or pay wall) they are making it freely available for anyone to download. That's how the internet works (for now!)