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Lol good luck Google. No way im watching YouTube with ads.
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Submitted 10 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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BoTheBun@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ElmerFudd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah let me fork over my rapidly disappearing regular people money for a service which used to be free, whose price will only keep going up, and whose features will only keep disappearing to be locked behind a higher tier of paid subscription, thus giving me less and less, for more and more payment. You meet me over there. Let me just grab my little red wig and honk my nose a few times first and I’ll be right over.
Manmoth@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Youtube Premium offers a fraction of the benefits of something like Newpipe.
APassenger@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s multiple issues with this but a lot of them come down to: it’s Google.
They will charge. They have heaps of money, they will enzhittify. They will kill and recommend a new less capable app.
They’re Google and I’m moving away from them hard.
I do use YT a lot, and for now I pay. But give me a little time and that won’t be as true.
Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
If it was fairly priced then maybe, but as of now yt premium just isn’t a good opntion
baru@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But that doesn’t get rid of the ads, it just get rid of some. Sponsorblock would still be needed. Why pay a huge amount for something ineffective?
MagikMistur@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Did you really come in here with a mini youtube premium go back to reddit.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 months ago
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 10 months ago
By now just paying for adblocking alone wouldn’t cut it, I have also grown accustomed to YouTube sponsorblock in my client.
baru@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Indeed, paying for YouTube would still result in loads of advertisements. So it’s pretty crazy that Google (and various people) are saying you need to pay because you’d just pay and still see loads of ads.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 10 months ago
It’s not just the ads either. Automatically skipping interaction reminders, zelf promotion and non-music parts is such an improved experience that it’s just too painful to go back.
mp3@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I said the same thing for Reddit before the third-party apps crackdown; instead of cracking down on users who just want a better experience, to allow third-party apps to be officially used if you have a paid subscription?
That way Google gets paid, and the users who enjoy their third-party apps can keep using them without worrying about them suddenly breaking.
Lesrid@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It would only work if it was still a massive privacy invasion. They either feed you ads or sell your data, they’re not going to offer a service that can’t at least do one of those.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s ok google, we have just as many engineers across the world that hate you and your ads and want to watch videos without your predatory pricing.
Plopp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Indeed. However, they have that web DRM thing in their back pocket. The more we resist (as we should) their efforts to shut ad circumvention down, the more they’ll look at web DRM I’m sure. And they’ll have all large media outlets with them when they load that ball into the cannon.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 10 months ago
Go ahead, as the only Google service I regularly interact with, I am looking for a reason to finally ditch it, so that I can say that I no longer use any Google services at all for any reason.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even if my client couldn’t block ads, I’d still keep it for the downvote button count and sponsor block.
Fuck Google and their price gouging.
0Xero0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Google lost the battle even in their own browser so now they’re trying to save face by attacking third party apps, dumbass just don’t know how to take the L.
AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Aren’t they implementing manifest v3 for addons soon, which will cripple adblockers on chrome?
SteakRipums@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When they do it’s only a matter of time for users to search how to block ads and move to a new browser
Sgn@programming.dev 10 months ago
Chrome is still the most used browser
kokesh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No. No fucking ads, or lack of swipe controls.
Daiken@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I uninstalled the YouTube app on my phone a long time ago. I only visit the site in an ad blocking browser.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Had no idea you could do that. I just went and did it, thanks for the tip. I use Newpipe anyway
jaschen@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Does anyone know how to add my subscriptions and channels from regular YouTube to newpipe? There isn’t a login feature.
Nickert239@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You have to export your youtube data at “google takeout manager” and import it in new pipe. Also you can read about it at newpipe FAQs
jaschen@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Thanks to my internet friend. Got it working!
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You know, they’d probably get a tenfold increase of Premium subscribers if they just, I don’t know, dropped the prices a smidge and had better regional pricing. Not everyone can or will subscribe, but Google is only making this more difficult for themselves by making it such an expensive service.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was a happy subscriber when I was paying $15/mo for a family plan for 6 people. I was grandfathered into a low rate for being an early adopter of Google Play Music All Access.
Then they decided that grandfathered plans no longer applied and wanted me to start paying $23/mo, a more than 50% increase, so I canceled. I switched to Spotify for the music, where I pay less, and just watch less YouTube since the ads are ridiculous.
If they kept it at $15/mo, I’d still be a subscriber. If they sold just ad-free YouTube for like $3/mo, I’d consider subscribing to that and keeping my Spotify subscription.
Meltrax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It costs $23/no for fucking YouTube? And to get the same experience you get with a free browser add-on? Fuck all of that. Absolutely not.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was about to pay for it when they doubled the cost. No joke I told my wife I was going to start paying since we watch it all the time. The next week they doubled the cost. It irritated me. Not because I couldn’t afford it but because they added no value with the increase. Nothing changed.
ElmerFudd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I believe there’s a sort of death-loop phenom taking place here. The enshitification, you know.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
How much you think the salaries of the pencil pushers are, the ones who get paid for little else but squeezing every single possible cent out of the supply/demand curve? The corporate greedsters, err the “revenue maximizers”.
Startup founders are told: