If I’m paying, it will be to nebula. YouTube is toxic.
Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn’t solve many of the problems that still exist:
- being shown the same content over and over
- Dislikes hidden
- in-video ads
- Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
- broken search results
- AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
- crypto spam
- Google-connected account using view history to spy on you
etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won’t.
They finally lost me completely when I loaded a music video marked “adult” for language and it demanded I upload ID on an account that was legally an adult.
I made that account in 1999, it’s not even from this millennium, and they still derp out on it. I’m getting close to 50, at this point, and the only thing ads, age verification, and extreme right wing content on top of state sponsored disinformation campaigns will get you is a blacklist.
We should have seen it coming, I mean they used to have the “Don’t be evil” motto, removing that was a declaration of intent.
I always wanted to get back into books. It’s actually really helpful that they’re doing this. I’m still pretty bad at self control.
YouTube revanced 👌👌
Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won’t you think of the corpos??
There is an assumption these people are making that I am not sure they are aware they are making. They are assuming the cost of running YouTube is increasing so the cost of YouTube premium needs to increase. Every public company is driven by maximizing share holder value, the goal is to extract as much money as possible from the user.
adblocking?
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
Use a firefox clone and ublock?
(and linux, btw)
I scrape from the command line, Google doesn’t even tough a web browser, leech the webm/webp/whatever content and transcode it into mkv/mp3 to watch locally, offline, with no ads or tracking.
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
… Death???
Prostitution
Can someone in this thread tell me how to get an ad blocker on my tv?
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
If you’re asking more generally there’s pihole but YouTube delivers ads the same way as videos so it won’t work for that.
Where did all those price tiers come from?
I remember YT red, which became premium, and included both music and Youtube.
TIL there is a Music Premium that just gives you music… But YouTube Music is just YouTube with a fancy frontend.
And the price hikes, wow, I signed up for 7.99/mo and remember it becoming 9.99/mo. I completely missed the 13.99/mo price hike.
The ‘unthinkable’ of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?
I want to cancel
Well until you do. They’re going to keep doing this. ???
If you want to also make a political statement out of unsubscribing, check out
Thats a lot of money.
Cancelation unthinkable? Maybe to the posters. Otherwise I can’t see any reason to dread canceling
