Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker

db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can however, almost certainly correctly, predict that most people are not going to care enough to bother pirating YouTube videos, especially given how many people watch YouTube on phones or smart TVs now.

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  • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pirates aren’t most people. Piracy finds a way among pirates.

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  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It does happen though. For example, in China, people would reupload YouTube videos to the local video platforms (e.g. bilibili) without permission from the video owners.

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  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I literally have a separate app just to watch YouTube through which lets me subscribe and all the rest without an account and without ads.

    I think you underestimate how much pirates and the opposition truly hate google and their practices and the lengths they will go to in order to get the content they want.

    “Let’s hook Americans on consumerism and turn them into animals, then we can surprise pikachu when said animals eat our faces”

    🤷🏻‍♂️

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    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you underestimate how much pirates and the opposition truly hate google and their practices and the lengths they will go to in order to get the content they want.

      I think you're dramatically overestimating how many people actually care about this, or any tech issue, enough to "truly hate Google". The vast majority of Android users have never sideloaded an app and don't even know what that means, while obviously that's not doable on iPhones at all.

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  • ares35@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    phones and tv puts the viewing experience in their app in most cases, too, and out of the reach of effective ad blockers.

    desktop pc user share on yt has to be pretty low nowadays.

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    • HooPhuckenKarez@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Firefox mobile+uBlock Origin+Video background play fix.

      Asian dude and butterfly meme... Is this a premium.

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