Somehow paying for Netflix is fine but god forbid I want to watch a 10 hour loop of the DS9 intro without ads.
I think most people are angry with YouTube premium because it’s a service that doesn’t give you anything. It’s a service where they stop annoying you. But it doesn’t unlock anything new that you didn’t have before, doesn’t give you access to content or data you don’t have access to, it doesn’t improve the service. It just removes the annoyances they put there deliberately. So people are a little angry about it
It’s a protection racket, for your attention and time.
It includes youtube music. And creators you watch get more money than if you watched using the ad supported version.
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You also get to play video with a screen off on mobile
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You also get to download for offline viewing
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You also support the creators of the videos, not just google.
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AND FFS YOU DONT GET ADS.
Using adblock isnt some innate human right. They are well within their rights to block adblock.
You get almost the whole worlds information for free in video form. You can be entertained or use it as a teaching tool. It is the best place at this point for product demos and reviews. It is a crazy wealth of information and infrastructure that everyone takes advantage of and somehow just expect to be free. If Google cancells it because it is not profitable, i would bet the efficiency of the entire human race takes a significant nose dive. It also probably runs one of the highest sets of data storage and encoding on the planet.
Can do all of those things without premium if you have the right apps.
But besides that, absolutely not. I remember when YouTube was free with no ads, I remember when the adverts first started appearing, and that’s when it became obvious that they were trying to annoy you into a pay model. It took a little longer than expected, but sure enough, they ramped up the ads until “YOUTUBE PREMIUM! PAY FOR NO ADVERTS!”
Fuck that, I had no adverts before and they took that away. But the worst part is that they harvest my private data and make money from me already. As far as I’m concerned, that’s my subscription to their shit, in their perverse data selling.
No fucking way I’m going to also pay them for the privilege to have my private data sold.
It’s almost like they were bleeding money and needed to at least break even.
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Somehow paying for Netflix is fine
is it tho? is it?
Hear me out: ublock origin on your computer and revanced manager on your phone.
I use iPhone. And I like downloading videos way way way too much. UBlock origin is goated tho.
And I don’t want ads when I cast to my tv.
https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus/wiki/Installation
You can sideload an adblocking YouTube app on iOS
Or use a PiHole for your entire network.
Those who pay are the problem on all platforms. 🏴☠️
Somehow paying for Netflix is fine
I was saying paying for Netflix is not fineIs praying for netflix fine?
Only praying for it to die
paying for netflix isn’t fine either
Tbh, I lose some amount of respect for anyone who mentions they pay for media that is easily accessed through piracy, netflix included
The same can be said even more so about people that refuse to pay for services they use.
Lmao look at this fucking bootlicker
edit: looked at your profile and you’re
incarnate, nevermindWhat are you supposed to be? Cringe incarnet?
Projection detected.
What did I say was cringe?
shut the fuck up paypig
You sure got me there buddy, I’m so owned!!
It’s so funny how much you lemmitors whine about piracy, considering even Reddit, the biggest corporate bootlicker site, allows piracy talk.
piracy is good and fun and based
shilling for the privatization of media, or whatever you’re attempting to do, is weird and the opposite of based
It’s based, actually. So is stealing from businesses. In fact, if piracy really was the same as stealing, I’d definitely make a point of pirating more often
“Im a loser Looke at meeeE!”
Has nobody here ever heard of YMusic?
YouTube Music is the reason I sail the high seas if you equate blocking ads to pirating. I neither want nor need it, but I now have to subscribe to it to get Premium.
I was paying for YT Premium before that predatory bundling to justify an insane price hike. It’s not worth 12€/month, sorry Google.
Not YouTube music, YMusic…
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And here I am, getting the same thing and paying nothing because I’ve got uBlock Origin.
YMusic
Yes. I pay for YouTube Music for my six account family and, as a side benefit, we all get ad-free YouTube.
Not YouTube music, YMusic…
Meanwhile I’m over here like:
That scene when he struts up to the guys naked and full of attitude in Chernobyl should have won him an emmy. Love this actor!
It is genuinely embarrassing how much that scene did for me. God that whole series is great.
What series is this?
Chernobyl.
Use Newpipe like a true comrade.
YouTube without ads on Android, and you can run it in the background with/without the screen off.
Newpipe gang rise up
You can even use it if you’re NOT filthy commie scum!
It’s called uBlock Origin
Doesn’t work on iPad. Kindly share workarounds anyone.
DNS? sideload? Barter for a better tablet? /j
I watch it mostly an AppleTV so there is no practical way to ad block it anyway.
