Same, I wouldn’t have discovered FreeTube had they not fucked with my user experience. And since I can’t comment/upvote or as far as they know, subscribe to anything they’ve lost all my engagement in addition to all the meta data they were collecting on me. How many seconds did I hover over each element before clicking something google? You don’t fucking know now do you ya!?
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macisr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I know that the pop up showing for some of my friends made me cancel my premium subscription. Everything else I don’t know. If they stop i will think about getting it back, but newpipe has been working pretty nice. It has the same benefits as premium and I don’t use youtube music. We’ll see, thanks to youtube for making me go looking for alternatives i guess lol.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
macisr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Trueee, FreeTube in pc, NewPipe in android and you get the same experience as premium. Even more so, with FreetTube you even get sponsor block that i have no idea with what kind of black programming magic its done but it’s a plus over premium. I sound like an ad but i didn’t know that shit like that existed until I cancelled premium lol.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
What if I told you there’s a fork called NewPipe+SponsorBlock on GitHub that does exactly what it sounds like?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Out of curiosity, did they have an exit questionnaire or something where anyone doing that can let them know why they cancelled?
macisr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, they show you a survey where you can pick some general reason and then there’s a comment box at the end. I seriously doubt someone real goes through that but maybe they have a bot collecting keywords or something lol.