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[–] grozzle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm happy paying a Nebula subscription, (another video site started by a group of youtubers, mostly engineering/tech/documentary types) because I know that the creators are getting all my money after reasonable platform costs.

I won't consider paying for YT Premium (or Spotify) until they become a lot more generous to creators, and stop their insane copyright strike algorithm and banned-words audio scanner from demonetising and hiding random videos (Jake Broe, Joe Blogs, Denys Davydov, Ryan McBeth etc are always having to edit and reupload to cut some harmless snippet) and whole channels (Metatron) all the time.

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[–] PublicLewdness@burggit.moe 1 points 2 years ago

I already have enough content to watch between Peertube and Odysee. Youtube is dead to me.

[–] raunz@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

mpv is not a crime!

[–] CanOpener@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they break Piped and Invidious, I guess I'll have to only watch Nebula content.

[–] Excusable7798@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly it wouldn't be such a bad thing if more people started using nebula and curiositystream for their content. The quality of content there is fantastic. Floatplane is another weird one out there which benefits users and content providers

[–] cambionn@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I actually used to have YT Premium because I'm a strong believer that nothing is free, so you either pay with data or money (on anything slightly commercial, not counting FOSS projects made as hobby or under foundations etc. as things get more complex then. But even then I pay/donate for some stuff in the same way of reasoning).

Yet I cancled the YT Premium subscription. Simply for one reason, privacy. I don't mind paying, but then I don't want just no adds, I also want no tracking. I pay with money, so I don't want to pay with data as well having a whole profile made.

Switched to NewPipe with sponsorblock on phone and TV and FreeTube on PC. Got a redirect extension in FireFox automatically sending YT videos to either Invidious or Pipe.

[–] dontblink@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Would definetely prefer to pay than being tracked...

But i also feel like the time is mature to produce a new type of web where nor ads, nor user payments are required, i think we'll get there some day..

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you have an android phone with a Google account, you're being tracked already.

As I be see it, I'm going to be tracked by everything on the internet whether I like it or not. So in the case of YouTube, I may as well support the creators I watch hours of content from.

[–] Aetherion@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Software doesn’t has to be this way. Humans define their own way and the Fediverse is showing us this.

[–] Andreas@feddit.dk 1 points 2 years ago

You get tracked if you give up and accept the privacy invasions because "the internet is just like that". Get a phone with an unlocked bootloader, remove the stock Android and install GrapheneOS/LineageOS/CalyxOS.

[–] cuchilloc@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

Between reddit and YT forcing us out, we might have a chance to solving world hunger, less people doom consuming dumb content and actually doing stuff

[–] bkmps3@aussie.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe an unpopular opinion here… but checking my stats, since buying YouTube premium my account has watched over 50 days worth of ad free video content.

Now whilst I wish more of money went to the creators themselves, I can’t pretend I don’t get value out of the subscription. Especially compared to something like Netflix.

I have 6 subscriptions and YouTube is the last one I’d consider cancelling.

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[–] hawx@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is Revanced going to be affected by this?

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[–] exohuman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I am constantly on YouTube. I have a stable of creators I follow and watching them has replaced the time I would have spent on other streaming services. It’s how I chill.

So I signed up for YouTube Premium and watch it on my TV with no ads. I have no complaints. I get full HD videos, streamers get paid, YouTube gets paid, and everyone is happy.

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[–] heliumlake@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve already migrated from Twitter to Mastodon, Reddit to Lemmy, looks like I’ll have to test disabling my traffic to YouTube. I control what content reaches my eyes on my devices, not Google. That is a hard line for me.

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[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm going to test blocking YouTube for having unskippable ads. :)

[–] assa123@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've tried changing to odysee and peertube. I just wished more creators would upload their videos to other platforms and not just YT.

[–] Aetherion@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The beginning of the Youtube exodus. People use Youtube for convenience, but what if you have to wait for 2 min to watch your 10 min video?

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

Exodus where? Most creators are only on YouTube and it's not like there's really an alternative.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How is scraping going to help, not a power user so just a curious question?

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[–] Matthew@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'm gonna be honest. I don't see anything wrong with this. I know the majority of us are just coming off some corporate bullshit from reddit, but I don't think it's wrong to not let your very expensive to maintain service be used for free without ads.

I promise that I'm not trying to suck a billionaire's cock when I say that I marvel in awe at YouTube's ability to input and output such astronomical amount of data at any given time, without any complaints.

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[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Good. Ad-blocking is piracy. Those content creators you are watching are depending on the revenue from ads. Either watch ads or buy premium. Third option? Don't watch youtube.

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[–] KooMSlayer69@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can youtube not try to fuck people over for 5 minutes?

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[–] dashlander@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dumb question, but will this also be affecting those on firefox or is this a chromium issue?

[–] SgtThunderC_nt@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To put it bluntly it's a "wait 1-2 weeks for adblockers to update" issue.

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[–] elephantintheroom@vlemmy.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Funny. They can try. I'm not as dependant on their platform as they wish-think. I'll find other ways or other platforms.

[–] this@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nebula is a pretty decent paid platform with a lot of short form YouTube style content on it. Pretty sure its significantly better on privacy policy as well.

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[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention Odysee yet

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