Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers

EpicVision@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use uBlock origin on firefox. All my devices are always connected through a VPN with all the ad and tracker blocks turned on.

  I am a YouTube premium subscriber.

  There are dozens of us… dozens!!!

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  • SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me too! Im a dozen!

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  • GhostMutt@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same for me!

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same. There really are dozens of us.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same. It’s expensive, but there’s absolutely no question that I use YouTube enough to justify it. If some can’t afford it I understand and that’s different.

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  • Caboose12000@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I also am among the dozens!

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• Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine being me and paying for premium and using ublock + revanced.

  At the end of the day, I think I get 10 dollars in value a month, and I know hosting data isn’t free.

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  • EpicVision@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t ever give Google a single penny. Instead, I pay for Nebula, allowing me to watch high quality videos and documentaries while supporting indie creators. And it’s just $5/month.

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    • acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not enough content on Nebula. I subscribed because of a couple YouRubers I follow, but there’s just not much there (at least that I watch).

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      • EpicVision@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        These are some Nebula creators I like

        • TLDR News (and their other channels)
        • NileRed
        • PolyMatter
        • ColdFusion
        • TechAltar
        • Ali Abdaal
        • Thomas Frank
        • Wendover Productions
        • RealLifeLore
        • Climate Town
        • Half as Interesting
        • Real Engineering
        • BobbyBroccoli
        • EposVox
        • Not Just Bikes

        I still occasionally use YouTube, but much less than before. I also enjoy Odysee and PeerTube. Grayjay is an amazing Android app to manage all these streaming platforms in one central place.

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    • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I will probably put my money where my mouth is, and get a nebula subscription

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      • EpicVision@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s definitely worth it. And it’s better to help independent creators instead of giving money to Google or other shady big tech companies.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m interested. It’s a real shame they just paywall the entire app and don’t give you a chance to explore what’s there a little.

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you for being this way.

    I think platform greed is awful, but I think consumer greed is something that largely goes unacknowledged.

    Even though I’ve been ‘over’ the genre for more than a decade, I still buy Japanese shmups when they appear on Steam - at one time they could only be found on obscure JP Warez sites, forget legally here. I do it out of a sense of something owed for past joy, and never play the Steam ver.

    I’m also hypocritical to a degree. I can only afford to support so much and I don’t pay for everything, just what I would have paid for anyways. Perhaps there is some self-satisfying logic built in there lol

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• EpicVision@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  	Chrome Web Store	Firefox Add-ons	Microsoft Edge Add-ons	Opera add-ons	Total
  uBlock Origin	36,000,000	7,780,587	10,000,000	12,686,907	66,467,494
  uBlock Origin Lite	70,000	3,145	3,000	N/A	73,145
  uBlock	700,000	N/A	‪10,000	N/A	710,000
  AdNauseam	N/A	74,478	10,000	210,616	295,094
  AdBlock Plus	46,000,000	4,064,146	10,000,000	50,844,211	110,908,357
  AdBlock	67,000,000	1,206,627	N/A	N/A	68,206,627
  AdGuard	13,000,000	1,053,029	8,000,000	10,872,145	32,925,174
  Total	162,770,000	14,182,012	28,023,000	74,613,879	279,588,891

  Source: Official data from extension stores

  This table does not include Safari extensions, browser extensions installed through Linux package managers like the firefox-ublock-origin package on Arch Linux, browsers with built in adblockers like LibreWolf or Brave, modded YouTube mobile apps like Vanced/Revanced on Android, uYou for iOS, alternative frontends like Invidious or Piped, desktop clients like FreeTube, other mobile apps like Newpipe, Libretube or Yattee or other adblocking solutions.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now deduplicate the numbers because I have it installed on 7 browser profiles.

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  • EpicVision@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If we also count other (less popular) adblockers, the Microsoft Edge addon store, browsers that come with pre-installed adblockers like Librewolf and Brave, people who use the package manager on their Linux distro to install browser extensions, alternative YouTube clients like Vanced/Revanced, Newpipe and Libretube as well as alternative frontends like Invidious and FreeTube, I’m pretty sure we still come out at over 100 million.

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