Oh no, I will have to do something useful with my time instead of watching 100 viral and algorithmically selected videos designed to enrage me – one after each other. WHAT WILL I DO
edit stir up shit here I guess
ublock origin still blocking everything.
Advertisement is brainwashing and should be against human rights.
Fuck youtube
If YouTube premium was $4.99 a month it’d be worth a consideration. But then again adblocking is free and privacy respecting
Do Pi-Holes work for this?
Lmao, time for anti anti-adblock! 🤣 https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/
I don’t really know how people can even use YouTube without ad blockers. Sitting through minutes of advertisement is not going to make me want to buy your product if I start mentally associating your product with frustration and annoyance. If these video ads are going to be repetitive and annoying, at least make them funny.
It seems like there is nowhere on the Internet to get away from ads currently, even here, where you thought you are safe, you are now reading an ad for my newest movie (you know the one), now also available on streaming!
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I love how a massive Internet company is trying to act like their service isnt on the internet and like they don’t know what that means
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Currently downloading all of my favorite YouTubers content ad free 🖕
YouTube is the cable tv of 2023
I’ll look forward to reading this yet again next week, alongside all the entitlement in the comments section that seem to think running YouTube is free and recommending trash alternatives which have less than 1% of YouTube’s content and don’t even work.
See you next week!
I will happily either find an alternative frontend, or just stop watching youtube all together. It’s done nothing good to my life either way
Youtube is squeezing one party really hard while pretending the other party doesn’t owe shit to keep their monopoly. Start charging uploaders. If YouTube needs to up what they’re earning because of things like bandwidth cost and what not make uploaders cover some of that cost. They’re a business making money off of the platform so charge them.
This is the worst possible take I’ve heard this week, probably this year.
You would fuck over thousands of people, in addition to creating a bar of entry for anyone wanting to post a video or start a channel. Like I genuinely don’t even know where to begin explaining how bad this take is.
My statement was far too broad for it to be “setting a bar of entry”. YouTube is trying to squeeze its viewers for every drop they can without having uploaders and im obviously not talking about the little guy here shoulder any of that cost. Who in your mind is responsible for the cost associated with lets say a Mr Beast video? Is it Mr Beast or is it the viewer? I think it’s both.
Why the hell would someone go to all the trouble of filming and editing a video, which is also not a cheap process, then pay to have people see it?
But I don’t want to pay and I want everything for free! Make somebody else pay for my enjoyment!
They already are, by monetizing the content they didn’t create, and paying creators just a fraction of the revenue generated.
Look this is different than pirating a game or bypassing a newspaper paywall. Watching content on YouTube simply costs money to YouTube. It’s not like torrenting a game or movie, where while you haven’t paid for the content, it didn’t cost anything to the owner other than theoretical revenue. And it’s not like bypassing a newspaper paywall, either, where the cost to the newspaper to serve you the story is practically negligible and the real costs are fixed and not related to how many people actually read the story.
Hosting video costs money and nobody can replace YouTube’s massive library or realistically replicate their business model. I mean just look at image/gif hosting sites, they constantly go bust like Photobucket because storing everyone’s pictures forever and for free isn’t not a real business model.
YouTube needs to be paid for its gonna go the way of Photobucket.
Corpo shill alert
YouTube doesn’t need to get paid (by the users watching their ads) they get paid through you, the actual product. What you watch what you click on what you search for, these are ALL monitizable. You think Google is protecting your data instead of selling it lmao
Furthermore how much is enough? They gonna keep adding more and more unskipable ads more pre/mid/post rolls, b-b-but the multi fucking billion dollar corpo needs to get pAiD!!!
Grow up
Google would never give up on a project!
Let it die. Creators will go elsewhere. We need to shake up the ancien regime a bit
Go where? The only companies that can afford to do unlimited video forever for everyone are the likes of Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Meta tried to steal VOD watchers from YouTube years ago, they failed. Amazon tried to get into VOD via Twitch, they gave up. Microsoft tried to come after Twitch with Mixer, they failed. Moreover, a lot of the things we hate about youtube like poor content moderation, the copyright system, demonetization, etc arent youtubes fault. The broken copyright system is just a result of what copyright law is, it’d probably be worse on a different site since they wouldn’t have the special agreement YouTube has with major copyright holders to serve as an intermediary. Instead of content strikes, or an ad revenue claim, that youtube has the special power to do, you’d just default to DMCA takedowns for everything immediately. And yeah content moderation and demonetization is bad but Youtube never wanted to do this right? They were happily showing ads on ISIS videos, its advertisers that forced them, which is how we ended up with a system that randomly pulls ads from videos if there is a hint of something an ad agency would object too. I mean it’s either this or advertisers don’t advertise at all, which fucks everyone, instead of a few people.
If you love watching ads so much go watch them. That’s the same boomer mentality that keeps cable alive to this day. I don’t care, I will never watch ads
So uhhh where will content creators go, you still haven’t answered the question.
Im not a content creator, why don’t you ask one?
You said creators will go elsewhere, which implies you know there are alternatives. Just wondering if you had anything in mind, or if you just kinda kicked that can down the road.
We got videos before YouTube, it’s fine. There are plenty competitors out there.
Peertube, twitch, hell archive.org has a video platform. And there are systems like Odyssey that already pay their creators.
And are you going to pay to host the petabytes of 4K content? Or are you going to expect other people to pay that when these creators jump ship?
Google has billions. YouTube pirates (can we call ourselves that yet?) are not going to bankrupt Google. In fact, Alphabet is spending more on their crackdown for sake of principle.
But Google is beholden to its shareholders, whose interests are diametrically opposed to that of the general public, so any gain by Google is a loss to the rest of us.
So any profit we can deny the Google machine remains instead in the economy, rather than vaulted in offshore accounts or used to further lock down the empires of the shareholders.
The day I can’t watch YouTube sans commercials is the day I quit watching YouTube. And then it will get absolute-zero engagement from me.
So bring it. I do not need YouTube, and it needs viewers like me.
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Good luck trying to talk about this with any amount of reason.
I’m a pirate, I understand what I’m doing is defrauding the tos of a mega corporation. I UNDERSTAND that and IM DOING IT ON PURPOSE.
But it seems like most of the people here are just going to hurl insults at you and call you a shill because you laid it out as “this cost money and the business needs money to even do it”. This is how “free” services have always worked. They aren’t a fucking charity.
I don’t like ads so I do everything in my power to not see ads. Once they kill ReVanced and they start banned Google accounts, I’ll just stop using YouTube unless I have a specific tutorial need.
Does that boot taste good or something?
Everything has to be free; I won’t pay a dime. If anyone tries to make money (aka any business), they are evil.
- Lemmy
