You guys pay youtube?

Never given YouTube a dime and never will

Revanced on mobile uBlock on firefox

I'm gonna pay you $0 to fuck off (with ublock)

Every single youtube channel needs to start seeding torrents of their videos, and posting those links to other platforms (here, mastodon, etc).

Youtube / google could be defeated collectively if creators were to consistently do this, and interested people had the ability to help seed videos.

We could just ban advertising.

That's basically google's main business. Their business is not in web search, video platform, mobile OS, email or AI, it's ad. People forget Google is an ad company, that uses any tool available to give you ad. If it's free and not open source, you are the product. Either to sell your attention and availability to companies through ads, or to use your data to do profiling, build a more vicious ad platform and sell your data on the side.

"Perpetrators offer a service that will not be put into effect, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket."

The very definition of racketeering.

I've said this a few times in various places, but I'm really surprised we aren't allowed to bid for ad space for ourselves to not show an ad the way advertisers do for ads. Obviously a flat monthly rate is simpler, nobody is denying that, but just from a purely "free market" perspective (which shareholders love to say they want while using the government to crush opposition) why can't I pay slightly more than whatever small amount of money someone is paying to show me an ad to not see the ad?

Realistically I don't think we'll ever see that because it's a fairly complicated. I don't have any hard data, but I can't imagine that the majority of users using something like YouTube Premium are getting a "good deal." Sure, some folks probably watch all day every day and they get the better end of the deal, but I'd bet for a lot of folks YouTube makes more money off charging the subscription than they would showing the ads. Which is sort of an odd scenario we've gotten ourselves into (but amazing if you're a company that serves ads).

Why is it a random picture of Will Ferrell though? Why are recent memes like this?

They call it a double-sided economy.

I call it “let’s fuck everyone.”

I don't pay anything. Just use newpipe/ublock/smarttube

The perfect crime.

What’s that have to do with Ricky Bobby?

Add to this that companies would prefer showing their ads to paying customers (who have some money to spend), not the free tier plebs

Grayjay is great for YouTube too

Why the fuck am I looking at a picture of Will Ferrell and not Ricky?

Storing and serving videos is expensive, they have to pay for it somehow. Either you pay directly or someone else pays for you (through an Ad). I don't see why this is inherently a problem.

I can see arguments on if the specifics are a problem with how they're going about it, but the fundamentals make sense.

Friend one day added me to his family plan because they had one space open. I'm still in the habit of always going to youtube in ways I can ad-block but am always pleasantly surprised when I go in the normal youtube app and I have no ads. I'll pay for the service though

Kinda makes sense tho. Either they earn money on you from ads or they make money from you because of subscription. Or you're like me and you still block the ads even though YouTube does everything it can to stop you.

I wouldn't really mind watching some ads before a video, but I don't wanna get constantly interrupted or have the ads track me everywhere. I tend to watch the in-video ads from creators tho, because most people I follow have relevant ads, funny ads, or ar the very least deserve some revenue.

set your VPN to Albania

Unwatched app for those on iOS

Yes.
I signed up with Google Play Music All Access in its two month intro way back when. At the time it was $7.99mo for life. They included YouTube Red when that launched. Now after all the name changes and price hikes, I'm still locked in at $7.99. I'll keep it as long as that lasts.

That shit is real

I'm playing both sides, but actually.