Comment on Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

Noxvento@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They started blocking users with advanced adblockers completely in some places. It’s expected they’ll roll out that policy in most countries. Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely, watch dozens of ads as well as sponsored segments every couple of minutes (because why would Google pay content creators who make them a huge pile of money by providing content for free adequately, right?) or pay hundreds of dollars a year. Even then they might start showing you some ads because why the hell not? Big tech stole the internet from us and now they’re banking in on it big time. Needlesly to say this is not a sustainable business model, but since when did that ever bother mega corporations?

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  • sylverstream@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a cat and mouse game, and history has proven that in this case adblockers will win. Or we’ll get ad blocker blocker blockers.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Firefox is pretty much the only browser Google doesn’t own directly. I’m afraid all of the other browsers will soon malfunction on that front so we’ll have to see.

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      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Firefox is going to see a lot of new users soon then.

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely

    Your terms are acceptable…

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless they put YouTube content behind a paywall there will always be ways to block ads.

    Probably that would be their future take, free 3 minutes of the video, if you want more… pay.

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  • automodbeta@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh no my dns provider broke and it cant resolve the ad servers. Pihole for the win

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    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just that the ads and videos come from the same domain

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    • pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I never got pihole to reliably block yt ads…

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• Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Personally, I like it when the content creators I spend time watching get paid for their work.

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  • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So pay them directly or through other platform. Why would you pay them through Youtube rather than Patreon when using Youtube Premium is going to make them get a lower share of what you paid?

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    • Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My resources are limited. I'd love to support them all in more direct ways. And a few of them, I do support outside of YouTube from time to time, as well. But I only have so much money to give, and there's so many creators whose works I've benefited from. It's the most conscientious use of my limited expendable income.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because the platform does actually deserver a share, too?

      We’d be living in a very different world if we hadn’t grown entitled to free shit because ads, and were actually paying for services that, you know, cost money to provide. The “ad supported” business model is utterly broken, dead, and gone, and was only ever able to support low-cost services like email and social media… But video streaming? By all accounts, it makes no sense.

      And on top of that, YouTube’s revenue share is by far the most generous in the industry. There’s a reason creators ditch twitch, tiktok, etc. for it, even without the sign-on bonuses that other platforms have to resort to.

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      • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ah, yes, I can see the poor company is suffering, nevermind, I prefer my money to go to shareholders who have their life solved rather than towards creators who are making amazing content yet aren’t making a living yet /s

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• AgentCorgi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can you cast it to your TV with no ads?

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  • mangofromdjango@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I cast videos to Kodi on my nvidia shield. No ads.

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• poofy_cat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This right here. Crazy to me that people would pay for what ublock origin does for free. Especially people defending the need to shell out for the service to “support” a trillion dollar company like Google.

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