Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"

• HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I watch a bunch of channels that are mostly talking and are 20+ minutes. I always put it on 1.5x speed and its barely noticeable and you get used to it. It saves me time without any loss of what was being shown so I consider it a win.

  1 question, this feature already exists for non paying costumers, does this mean its going to be a pay for option only soon? That will piss me off…

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  • Blum0108@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was thinking they’d cap the free speed up at either 1.5 or 2, but I don’t know

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it trains your brain to be even more impatient and when you talk to people in real life, you will think everyone is slow and annoying.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i usually just skips the part if they drone on and on.

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That makes faster playback a disability affordance, for legal reasons

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1.5x is totally legitimate but Youtube advertises 4x speed. They put 4x speed behind a paywall. That‘s ridiculous.

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