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[–] 202 points 7 months ago (32 children)

"Experiencing interruptions? Find out why" - Naah I'm fine dude, just take your time.

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  • [–] 149 points 7 months ago (21 children)

    Oh no! The video is black for a few seconds instead of showing several ads for a minute! Whatever am I going to do???

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  • [–] 103 points 7 months ago (20 children)

    Even if they keep the screen black for 30 second to a minute, I'd still gladly wait in silence than be subjected to advertisements.

    If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I'll just leave the platform. I have no loyalty to YouTube and I'll sooner dump the platform and move on to other video sites than deal with enshittification and ads.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I’ll just leave the platform.

    Yep. Then it will be time to finally start exploring peertube or something...

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    i wish peertube had more/better discovery tools

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The problem isnt discovery its content. There isnt much good content on there. You'll find the good stuff pretty quickly.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago*

    I take that personally :(

    Actually most of my videos are just boring things that I find interesting, and I get just as many views on there as I did on YouTube. And the autocaptions are waaaaaay better.

    What I like about peertube is it's just people uploading for the love of it, not content farms and AI slop chasing a quick buck.

    Edit: oh yeah and not having multiple ads on my videos.

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  • [+] -27 points 7 months ago (15 children)
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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago

    I don't pay for streaming sites. 🏴‍☠️ And I definitely won't give YouTube any money. I've always been able to browse their videos without paying a cent. I'm not about to start now.

    Besides, I don't like how everything has become subscription services nowadays. You used to be able to pay once and own a product. Now you need to pay monthly to have temporary access to a constantly changing library. No thanks, I'll only spend money on things I can own forever.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Why pay for streaming sites that still give you ads like amazon or peacock

    I don't? Anyone who pays for a service to show them ads is a rube?

    I would actually consider paying for a service like Youtube if it truly was as simple as that, but it isn't. Even if they aren't showing ads after your buy premium, they are still collecting, training on, and selling your data and habits. This is payment. I don't believe in double-dipping; if I'm already paying in my data, then I'm not going to give you money or watch your ads.

    If you want to show ads without harvesting data or offer a way to pay monetarily that stops ads and data harvesting, then I'll watch ads or buy. But I absolutely do no accept double-dipping. If I'm already paying, I'm not paying again.

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  • [+] -9 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No, I don't watch ads?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I just dont trust them not to use the payment and account info to track me more for every other ad they serve.

    They get nothing.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Not expensive? I just checked. It's 8€/m for me. Which means 96€/year.

    Maybe that's not expensive for the USAians that earn hundreds of thousands per year. But it is expensive to just remove a few ads that can be easily blocked. It won't even stop the Google tracking, it just stops the ads on YouTube. An ad blocker will also block the tracking.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    not OP but personally I watch maybe 2h of YT /month. Because I only watch one dude who posts about monthly, then the rest is just random links I'm clicking from a post or something. I donate to the guy periodically. The other links half of them are news clips or something that I could prob just get from their site.

    The one-size model just doesn't fit my use case. I'd pay for a per-time-watched plan if it was reasonably priced but it doesn't even exist.

    Honestly I could do without it entirely. Personally.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I’m fine with waiting 10 seconds at the beginning of a video. I wonder how much YouTube would save (by reducing bandwidth, smaller caches, choosing slower storage) if they didn’t have the goal to start the video virtually immediately.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    I don't know why this just happens on my laptop. Probably it's because it has a slower CPU. Also, this website shouldn't be this bloated

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Bloat + they default to that message after a timer + they intentionally throttle users using adblock

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    You can tell they're deliberately causing the delay by the way it pops up instantly and sends you to a page about turning off adblockers. The experiencing interruptions message used to send you to a page about ISP network performance...

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    • [–] 52 points 7 months ago

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    [+] 68 points 7 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago

    The best part is that Youtube ad revenue is low enough that everyone who can is doing their own sponsor segments, so paying for Youtube to remove their ads doesn't remove a lot of the ads. The only way to an ad-free experience is adblock+sponsorblock.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I was happy to pay for YT Premium when there was a loophole so you could sign up from a far cheaper country. I paid about £6 a month for the family plan, purely so I could watch on Apple TV without having to tolerate adverts.

    Then they closed the loophole, shitcanned our premium, and demanded £20 for the same experience. We had Netflix at the time, which was cheaper. So I made a little app as a frontend for yt-dlp, and downloaded what I wanted to watch into my Jellyfin server.

    Fuck Google.

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  • [+] -11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'll never understand why people are proud to waste their life watching ads. Or are proud to use adblock and steal the content being posted by small creators. You're really sticking it to the little guy, great job.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If the little guy is staking their livelihood on revenue from getting in bed with the devil, they deserve nothing.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ok, so you can never use any google product ever again! If you ever again in your life watch a Youtube Video remember what kind of Hypocrite you are! This also goes for TikTok, Instagramm, etc. (Any plattform that has User generated Content & uses Ad's)

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    • [–] 45 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I would pay if it was a quality service and not ran by clowns

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    How is YouTube not a quality service lmao

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    • [–] 22 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    My favourite unexpected bonus from switching to Linux has been a completely ad free youtube experience. Not entirely sure why this magic is happening but I love it.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    On windows Firefox + ublock origin is an ad free experience for YouTube. Any chance you picked a browser that has ublock origin added hy default?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    This shouldn’t happen unless you also switched to a niche browser.

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    • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Dafuq is a scarescreen?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It's like a jumpscare, but a screen instead.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You seem to have dropped this.
    (＾-＾)＿日

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    • [–] 52 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (17 children)

    The people saying "just pay for premium" don't seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads. When google purchased it they promised to keep it that way. Then they slowly started with ads. At first they were pretty unobtrusive banners, then a short skippable preroll then multiple preroll then unskippable preroll. The reason I refuse to pay for premium is because Google created this issue and is now selling the solution. I refuse to be a part of that. It has nothing to do with the creators.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    ReVanced and Grayjay do the same thing but for free and are open source so long as Google keeps trying to engineer enshitification the proud people of the open source community will engineer a solution.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Hmm weird take. Yes these are solutions to the Ad's problem from the user side but they are just UI Wrapper for Youtube so they don't have any costs for hosting & providing all the content. So yea they don't need to monetize. This doesn't however fix the problem for Youtube itself. How are they supposed to pay for cost & make a profit?

    I totally agree that Youtube with all the Ad's is unusable (I'm using an AdBlocker) but Youtube is still a Profit orientated company so how do we fix this dilemma. Youtube Premium feels not worth it to most people because Youtube was always "free" so paying for it now makes people go like "WTF?". So Ad's & enshitification was/is the only way to make a profit for Youtube. I don't like it either but this is reality.

    If you have a solution for them I'm sure they would pay you handsomely for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Peertube is a solution, it is an open source peet to peer video hosting platform. But in truth having good competition is a way to force better practices, and if open source is the best option people will go for it if they know about it. linux, thanks to valve and Microslop's poor idea of what people want (and governments leery of Microsoft and Trump's close association decoding to have their own OS for internal use at least), have gotten a small influx of users as a whole, but with more users the more open source solutions to compatibility will be produced, and hopefully if you are looking for the YouTube equivalent you'll try peertube.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    I would totally pay for youtube if it was even remotely decently priced.

    You can get multiple concurrents on disney+, Hulu or Netflix with blockbuster content for the same price as youtube's slop filled premium family.

    Seriously, the service is worth maybe $9 a month. I don't want their music, i won't use it, the quality is crap.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The cost of hosting YouTube itself doesn't pay for itself unfortunately. They could get away with it back then because the internet itself wasn't that big. Therefore, we need to KICK THE NORMIES OUT OF OUR INTERNET. WE WERE HERE FIRST, REEEEEE

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Google reported an annual gross profit of $240.3 billion last year.

    They can fucking pay for YouTube

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It's even worse, their net was $132 billion

    https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOGL/alphabet/net-income

    So even after expenses, the profit of alphabet group was obscene.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (5 children)

    I mean, as it grew the hosting/staffing costs went up as well. There's no way it could have continued to be completely free.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    That's still a bait and switch though.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    No, it isn't.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, it is. Start by offering unsustainable ad-free video. Drive competitors out and monopolize the market. Start turning the screws. Classic tech bro bait and switch.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That's really not what happened. YouTube wasn't created to drive out competitors and monopolize the market.

    It may have ended up doing that, but a bait and switch is an intentional action.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    But you yourself literally just argued the impossibility of it running ad free indefinitely. If you attract customers by knowingly offering a level of service at a cost you know with absolute certainty that you can't maintain, then yes, it's a bait and switch. It's deception and manipulation. Classic bait and switch. Youtube isn't special. They're just Walmart.

    And you're just wrong. There's no other reason to offer a service temporarily for free than to use it to drive out competitors. That strategy only has any value as a means of driving out competition.

    But, sure, keep simping for the evil megacorp.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    I don’t think this is as simple as “they’re too young to know”! I’m a 30+ year old man, and I was around 15 when YouTube first came out. I was a huge fan of the early days, when YouTube was free!

    I am absolutely fine with paying a monthly/annual fee for ad-free access to perhaps the best compilation of human knowledge and entertainment which has ever been compiled in one place. One reason I’m cool with it is that premium views pay the content creator more than the equivalent ad view.

    Sure, YouTube “created the issue” of ads. But if it means supporting the creators and removing a barrier to videos, I’m fine with the price.

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    • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Unlock origin always always always free

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    [–] 17 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    They're eventually gonna start banning accounts for this and then requiring login to view YouTube.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I doubt they’ll ever actually do it, just threaten it constantly.

    They’d rather have people without accounts, and/or using adblockers keep using the site. If they started actually cracking down, then it would create a significant pool of users who would use some other platform. They’d rather eat the losses of some people not viewing ads then push a significant amount of users to a potential competitor.

    Much like how Microsoft hasn’t cracked down on unlicensed windows installs because it would push a significant amount of people to look for an alternative OS.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    well, I don't think people would actually move platforms if that happened. reddit did some stuff that everyone hated and it's still absolutely massive while the alternative, Lemmy, is small af. that's not even considering the difficulty of making an alternative to YouTube.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    The difference is that Reddit was still largely usable after the API changes and most affected users weren’t getting banned. Some people have a high tolerance for ads, but a lot of people would find YouTube unusable without an ad blocker, and if YouTube was banning people, they’d be destroying a lot of the inertia against going somewhere else.

    If we say that something like 20% of users on YouTube are using adblockers, that’s a big enough addressable market for a competitor to seriously take off. Enough to attract content creators and VC funding to get it off the ground. In the end YouTube would probably win, but it would be after a few years of actually having to compete. The revenue loss over that time period isn’t worth the short term gain of getting some small percentage of users to watch ads.

    If YouTube felt like it could get away with banning people using ad blockers and requiring an account to watch, they would have done it a decade ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Do they think they are essential and believe I will not simply forget they ever existed?
    May very well be, but that will be in line with their out of touch and deluded policies.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I do not agree with their changes & policies but I think you underestimate the market share Youtube has in this area. Also you are not the average Youtube user (being on Lemmy and all) so you should think about how the average user interacts with the platform (they don't care about Ad's & don't know how to install an Ad Blocker). I think Youtube can do a lot more shit before normal people would start to jump ship, but even then what are the alternatives for them? Peertube etc. don't have the content they watch...

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Sure they have a huge market share. That's simply from being the first video-sharing platform and being from Google.
    There is nothing unique or irreplaceable about them and plenty alternatives do exactly the same thing now.
    Only better without ads.
    Problem is there are too many and divide the small leftover market share between them.
    When/if that's fixed people will not look back.
    'normal' people choose VLC now and other FOSS.
    YT is not their favorite sportsteam, they have no loyalty to them.
    On the contrary. If someone insists on playing YT music for friends and it's interrupted by an ad, everyone's annoyed.
    And content is shared on as many platforms as they can since it's free and they want as much viewers as possible.

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    • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    They show screens about that ? I haven't seen any !

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    On desktop I get the "Video running slow? Disable your ad blocker" popup in a corner. But videos loaded normally.

    On mobile everything was fine until recently. In the last couple of weeks, videos do have a small lag before loading. Still preferable to ads. And I'm just using the browser's in built blocker.

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    • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    Hey people

    Newpipe

    Pipepipe

    If one ever breaks the other can usually still download or stream with no ads or fuckery

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Grayjay

    Easily the best video streaming app. Uses sponsorblock on youtube as well. Lets you consolidate all your video feeds in one place. I wouldn't bother using Nebula without this.

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    • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    With the glorious return of Tom Scott, I finally signed up to Nebula yesterday, and am pleasantly surprised at how many of my YT regulars are already on there. £30 for a year, no ads, and an Apple TV app.

    Which is £30 more than I paid YouTube, because the family plan is a ridiculous amount of money.

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