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

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cypherpunks@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨aboringdystopia@lemmy.world⁩

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cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40372957

fyi:

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp lets you download videos (from youtube and also hundreds of other sites)

for desktop, mpv.io is free and lets you watch youtube (or any other video) at even more and faster speeds than youtube premium does, among many other features

for android, newpipe.net lets you play youtube in the background (and download videos, and block ads, …)

ublockorigin.com blocks ads everywhere (and yes it does still work on youtube, at least in firefox anyway)

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MoreZombies@quokk.au ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I am not against paying for services to unlock extra features, but I utterly despise the way YouTube premium is entirely composed of features we had but they took away.

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- Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  How would you suggest they get people to pay?
  
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  - hendu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Come up with new features that people would be willing to pay for.
    
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PenguinMage@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Got a 3 month free trial of it, honestly love the things I used to have. But it still stutters like shit and is a garbage feed of shit I don’t watch. I will not be paying when it’s used up.

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scytale@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s why there’s like a second or two of a delay before the video plays when I watch on a browser with uBO. The connection isn’t slow, they’re just purposely slowing it down.

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- MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  When they say ‘faster playback speeds’ they don’t mean faster connection speeds, they mean watching at 1.5x normal speed (or faster).
  
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  - himitsu@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Up to 4x
    
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- lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sometimes they even show an “Experiencing interruptions?” popup just to be extra dickheads. I am patient, I can wait.
  
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- saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  In case anyone’s wondering, scytale’s ad blocker.
  
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Play video in background

Was such a shamelessly sleazy was to try and twist arms into using their service. Nevermind that it just spawned a thousand different 3rd party tools for getting around this annoying limiter. It just felt like a huge red flag, indicating they were going to use their native app to be fucking annoying to their clients going forward.

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- joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The lite version does not include this. It also still shows ads on music and shorts.
  
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- EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t understand. I play videos in the background all the time.
  
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CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Because where would we be if we couldn‘t CONSUME ENDLESS SLOP AT FOUR TIMES SPEED?! Seriously who needs this? This is sickening.

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- PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If you’re watching lectures from someone who talks really slow.
  
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- dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Slop comment aside, a lot of people with ADHD listen to videos at 1.5x or more speed because that’s how their brain works.
  
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  - HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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  - AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That makes faster playback a disability affordance, for legal reasons
    
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- Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Try watching videos by “explaining computers”. Actually pretty good content (mostly on single board computers like raspberry pi), but he talks glacially. Normally I watch at 1.5x, this channel is one of just a few where I need to up it to 2x.
  
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  - PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I usually just skip to the part where he reveals the price of the amazingly cheap sbc, then click off when it’s definitely not cheap.
    
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  - samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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- MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  When you think about it, it’s not really that different from learning to read faster, which is a valued skill.
  
  (There’s an argument to be made that for many things you’d be better off reading rather than watching YouTube vids at 4x but let’s not focus on that.)
  
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- Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Have you seen people who complain about written jnfo his video info? Its because they can read thr info faster than listening to it be said. But if you speed it up to 2x or 3x then it becomes the same as reading in terms of time. You get used to it over time. I can’t listen to anything at 1x speed anymore.
  
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  - Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’ve thought about dipping my toes into this but I don’t want to start getting antsy when people talk IRL
    
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muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
PipePipe still works

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