‘Early adopter pricing’ is expiring around the world.
  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    fuck, this will really hurt my revanced experience. a

    oh wait no it won’t lol

    • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Uh, youtube premium is ad free…

      Im one of these legacy users from google music, and youtube hasnt shown me an ad in nearly a decade…

      Obviously other than the baked in ad reads by the youtubers themselves

    • wildn0x@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      The idea is that the music is on YouTube anyway. Either access the music on YouTube or use the Music app to access. What you would need to ask for is a YouTube subscription without any music access.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    9 days ago

    Cancel it, get on a vpn in low cost country, subscribe with CC with no FX conversion fee…

    They close out eventually but hey fuck Sundar the creep… treat the parasite as what it is.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

    With the change in political atmosphere I suspect they’re going to get a lot more leeway to do things we don’t care for. I wonder if they could lobby to make ad blocking illegal.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 days ago

      It seems like it’s already beginning. For one, Firefox is getting blocked more and more often as being “out of date” (it’s not) while a chromium-based browser is fine. My VPN keeps getting flagged as malicious (PIA). It’s getting really irritating.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I use PIA a lot, But yeah a lot of VPNs are getting flagged as malicious these days, to be fair there’s a lot of malicious people doing things on them.

        • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Google purposely gives you an issue when you use their search engine with a VPN. when that happens I say fuck your capcha and use duck duck go

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            9 days ago

            Long live the Duck

            or SearX, which by proxy uses the duck and whoever else :P

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I’m fairly certain he just tell you if you got him doing his rambling thing.

        • JamesBean@kbin.earth
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          9 days ago

          Just have someone ask him what kind of ‘nasty things he thinks democrats use the internet for.’ He’ll start rattling off things that are way too specific and definitely projection.

    • malloc@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Hopefully by then we have full mirrors of YT. Maybe PeerTube would be viable replacement

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I think the biggest barrier on peer tube is the lack of easy monetization. Your average content maker is not ready to seek out a sponsorship and maintain that relationship. Vast majority of content we have out there is because people are seeking to make a few bucks.

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I don’t think peertube will ever truly be successful, because hosting and distributing video content is just extremely expensive as it is so large.

      • Formesse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Ok: PeerTube is interesting. But: in terms of replacement? No. non-viable.

        The problem you have is multifold - and one of them is constant content availability, and total bandwidth. The value of Youtube is on demand streaming - you click a video, it plays, basically anywhere in the world. The other value is… copyright: Because of the way youtube is set up, you don’t have the same kind of copyright problems as you would without the back end negotiating and systems youtube as put in place. You can think copyright as it stands is oppresive and sucks -and I agree; but with the law the way it is - youtube is the best work around that is feasibly possible.

        Mirroring all of youtube needs piles of terrabytes of new storage DAILY. and it’s in the hundreds of thousands as a low end estimate. You need the computational power to do the transcoding. You need the distribution of servers to load balance and avoid over saturating and d-dossing any given server cluster.

        The reality is the Torrent protocol has been around forever - and there is a reason it never really took off, despite live watching while streaming was feasible: It has too many pitfalls.

        And then, there is the content creator side: If you want to make money - youutube is kind of the place to put your content up with youtube premium sharing, ad revenue sharing and so on once you can monetize your channel. And while there are all kinds of BS in regards to what can and can’t be monetized - there really isn’t a replacement, not for the average person just getting started - and not if you are trying to build your following.

        • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          People also forget that YouTube ran at a loss for well over a decade.

          And any new start up would have to compete with YouTube and their massive audience, and all the other sites. There’s a reason that Vimeo never made quite the same height, for example.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            9 days ago

            Floatplane is feeling that. At small scale, they’re really a poor value proposition.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I find it infuriating that the “free market” doesn’t let me bid on an empty ad slot on my own videos and instead makes me pay a flat rate monthly fee.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        9 days ago

        That’s what people are doing with sponsored segments.

        My gut is that if Peertube had an ad marketplace that content providers would flock to it. But ODYSEE already failed at monetization. And then you’d have to have some kind of guardrails in place to keep people from hosting pirated* movies for $$$.

        edit: voice dictation sucks :)

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    That’s fine. Youtube is either free without ads, or non-existant. Hey, did you guys know adblock is a necessity in life? It’s true.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Hey did you know with certain add-ons, you don’t need YouTube premium? Just like back in the day when YouTube was just YouTube…

      • dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        9 days ago

        That’s fine and easy on desktop/web browser, but for mobile devices it is not quite as easy. You would either need to use a hacked version of the app or a third party app.

        • JamesBean@kbin.earth
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          9 days ago

          On my phone, I just access YouTube through the firefox browser app with ublock origin installed. Works perfectly.

        • malloc@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          9 days ago

          On mobile, I don’t use the app. I use safari + youtube.com with vinegar app and adguard.

          No ads plus I get PIP. Quality is a hit or miss but idc about that.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Youtube continuing to exist is a net negative. I want google to cease existing immediately. All of alphabet should be dissolved, along with facebook, apple, elon in fact, just nuke silicon valley, california, texas, new york, europe and china.

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I’ve take to using yt-dlp to download things I want to watch to a Plex folder, just so I can watch on Apple TV without having to tolerate a barrage of cunty adverts.

    It’s kind of a pain, but it does mean that I’m spending far less time idly scrolling through YouTube.