"the unthinkable"
Hyperbole much?
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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Unthinkable is signing up in the first place
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Was about to say the same. Unthinkable, I never even thought of subscribing in the first place!
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Here I am using firefox and ublock or newpipe, I haven't seen a youtube ad in years. 🤷
I only see ads when I go to a friends house and they have that on the tv app blasting 1min ads every 5minutes.
Introduce them to SmartTube for Android TV
They don't care. I've tried with Vanced, blockers, DNS, everything. They'd rather just watch the ads. Blows my balls off.
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Dramatic much? Canceling a subscription is 'the unthinkable' now? For fuck's sake.
Not aiding capitalism by canceling a subscription = suicide
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable "Do I really need 300 subscriptions?"
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Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn't solve many of the problems that still exist:
- being shown the same content over and over
- Dislikes hidden
- in-video ads
- Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
- broken search results
- AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
- crypto spam
- Google-connected account using view history to spy on you
etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won't.
in-video ads
They do actually have an in-built skip for this. It's not as good as sponsor block though
They finally lost me completely when I loaded a music video marked "adult" for language and it demanded I upload ID on an account that was legally an adult.
I made that account in 1999, it's not even from this millennium, and they still derp out on it. I'm getting close to 50, at this point, and the only thing ads, age verification, and extreme right wing content on top of state sponsored disinformation campaigns will get you is a blacklist.
We should have seen it coming, I mean they used to have the "Don't be evil" motto, removing that was a declaration of intent.
Considering YT didn't even start until 2005, I call BS 😁. Not to mention I don't think they would've had accounts from the get go unless you wanted to upload videos.
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I pay for YouTube and they wouldn't accept the card I pay them with for validation.
So I took a photo of someone in a YouTube video and they accepted it as me and hey now I'm verified.
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The unthinkable of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?
The unthinkable? lmao
How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won't you think of the corpos??
Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it's absurd and bad and all that.
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There is an assumption these people are making that I am not sure they are aware they are making. They are assuming the cost of running YouTube is increasing so the cost of YouTube premium needs to increase. Every public company is driven by maximizing share holder value, the goal is to extract as much money as possible from the user.
me: can we have ad free videos with uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock?
google: we have ad free videos at home.
at home: YouTube Premium
Now is the time for peertube to shine
I'd gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.
At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.
But let's be honest, they're not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it's just 5-9's of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.
at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.
tell me about it; I'm paying double for revanced now
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
Use a firefox clone and ublock?
(and linux, btw)
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unthinkable? Coordinate an attack to kidnap families of high executives?
Also check out what they’re doing if you happened to pay through Apple….
Makes sense. Never pay through Apple if there's any other option. Can't fault Google for that.
But even then, $16 per month for Youtube!? An adblocker is cheaper.
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Loool, I think about cancelling stuff all the time.
Hell I think I'll go cancel something right now.
Unsubscribing and installing UBlock Origin is perfectly thinkable. It also gets which side is the "dark side" wrong.
I miss the days when companies would grandfather your price in, so price hikes only effected new users... Now days everyone pays.
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"For the first time in three years" is a weird way to phrase regular price increases.
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