"Experiencing interruptions? Find out why" - Naah I'm fine dude, just take your time.
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Oh no! The video is black for a few seconds instead of showing several ads for a minute! Whatever am I going to do???
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.
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...
But they offer an ad free plan that isn't expensive, and the service is really fast and reliable, and comes with YouTube music as well. Why pay for streaming sites that still give you ads like amazon or peacock, but won't pay for YouTube?
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.
Well i hope you didn't send this message from an android phone or Windows 11.
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.
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.
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
Bloat + they default to that message after a timer + they intentionally throttle users using adblock
Just using Firefox triggers the throttle too.
I would pay if it was a quality service and not ran by clowns
How is YouTube not a quality service lmao
Also not run by oligarchs
All oligarchs are clowns, but all clowns are not oligarchs
I’ll never pay for YouTube ever.
I actually find the value to be worth YouTube premium. YouTube music works crazy good on my cars wifi and infotainment, and i get 4 users that i can add to my family plan so now me and my wife and kids gets all ad free on any device. And i watch now YouTube that i do Netflix, and netflix cost almost the same for only 1 login.
Personally i support any company that provides me an option for AD free service. I can't stand companies that charge me, and show ads.
Nicotine+ and downloading all the music I want in high quality also works great.
I just want to be able to use it anonymously. But then they changed their payment guidelines requiring PayPal to share my address with them. So adblocking it is 🤷🏼
Same. I’ve stopped Spotify now and just use YouTube music. Worth it for that alone I’d say
seconded
been a happy premium subscriber for like 12 years now. I don't understand why ppl think a service that involves tons of server infrastructure to run should be free... just feels like immature entitlement
I think people have two problems with YouTube. 1 it is Google and therefore monumentally evil. 2 they started the service as free then enshittified it slowly. It's not like they just added a few ads then left it alone. They have relentlessly added more and more ads to the point it's disgusting. I think if it was always one way or the other, it would get far less hate. Me personally, I probably need about 30 minutes of YouTube per month. I'm damned sure not paying for that and due to said ads getting worse and worse, I'm using an ad blocker for sure.
Monopolist pricing is made up numbers to extract rent from the public.
If there was competition the price might be fair. Instead you pay whatever the Google exec thinks you will tolerate.
Yep true
Dude had paid for YouTube for 12 years he’s never seen a single ad
I agree that YouTube without premium is unusable.
They didn't start the service, they bought it with the long term plan of making it profitable.
I mean, you might be older than me but I doubt it :)
I remember when YouTube was cool, before Google bought it. But at this point that was a relatively short time period. I know they bought it to make money and that's not even necessarily the worst thing. My main issue with Google regarding YouTube is the slow enshittification of it. I remember when there was either no ad, or a 5-7 second single ad for a whole video. Those days are way gone though.
Right, all i ask is a cheap ad free service, and Google did just that with YouTube. I will continue to support that business model.
The ones that piss me off are amazon where i pay for the upgraded "ad free" version but there are still ads, and they want to me pay for each "channel". Amazon can suck my dick.
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.
I'll give that a shot too. The more tools I have to get around YouTube's API fuckery the better
Dafuq is a scarescreen?
you know those FBI Warnings in front of a LEGALLY (they are removed by pirates on pirated movies) procured Movie? Those are scare screens.
It's like a jumpscare, but a screen instead.
You seem to have dropped this.
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They added display name restrictions at some point and now I can't change my settings without picking a real one 😕
Did they? I don't understand
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.
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?
Hmmm, I could've sworn my Firefox had ublock origin on windows but I might've screwed something up etc.
I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth though!
This shouldn’t happen unless you also switched to a niche browser.
I used Firefox on windows with as much anti as stuff as I could find but they still snuck through.
I'm okay considering it a Linux miracle.
Hallelujah!
hmmm? Sorry I was busy enjoying my favorite creators on invidious with sponsorskip. Not sure what you all guys are talking about. Youtube is so good when you remove Youtube from the equation.