Sowhatever
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- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
Ditto
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
Lidl is also a big Corp.
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
"appeal to the majority doesn’t help your case"
- guy who used appeal to the majority first
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
Or TVs. Or people who want to sync between devices. Or download for offline. Or compensate creators. Or not bother installing 50 scripts and updating them 3 times a day. Or just do the right thing. You know, 99.99% of people.
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
Not familiar with Group Policies, I see?
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
Ah yes, the #worksonmymachine thinking.
If you watch low effort content you will get low effort content. I watch amazing content that is well worth the few bucks a month. Late night shows, stand up comedy, documentaries, news analysis, tech reviews, car reviews, programming news and tutorials, chess commentary and courses, architecture and interior design tours, sport summaries, popular science…
BTW, Walmart is a huge company, I assume you also don’t pay there? Apparently robbing corporations and farmers it also would be fine, because “the products are so low quality nowadays” …
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
It’s more than triple for a family plan, but you share it with people and you land well under 5 euros per person.
Please tell me how to install chrome or Firefox on a corporate laptop without admin rights, I’ll wait.
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
A Starbucks coffee is around 5 euros.
I don’t want to look into anything, much less if it’s less seamless, I’m satisfied with the default YouTube app on my TV.
You need admin rights to install any software.
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
How do I install it on my TV? How do I sync? Do I install on every device I use? What if I don’t have admin rights? What if it’s out of date and the ads play anyway?
For less than a Starbucks coffee I have a month of premium, and I don’t have to play cat and mouse.
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
What about my TV, where I watch most of my content? What about inter-device sync? What about paying the creators for their work?
I could also shoplift in my local supermarket, but I’m into “that sort of thing” (paying for people’s work).
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
Or maybe they are sharing the family plan with 2 other people and rounding up. Or they have a different plan. Or they live in a country with different prices and converting to usd. Or a handful of other reasons that doesn’t involve conspiracy theories.
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 11 months ago:
Not even close to the experience.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
The only one I know of is Nebula, and I only know of it because of ads.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
In what world Craigslist is honest and Alphabet is circling the drain? They make billions of profit per quarter and they have majority control of the biggest two platforms worldwide (mobile and web). We are not in the wild west years of the early web. It will be decades before Meta or Alphabet collapse, in favor of TikTok or a similar, or even worse, competitor. Mastodon and lemmy are an exception and a niche, not a rule.
Wishing something very hard doesn’t make it true.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
Why would creators leave? They only earn money from users that watch ads or use premium. Ad blocker users leaving doesn’t affect them.
And if you “just leave”, guess what? You just saved them a few bucks in bandwidth. It’s a win-win for them.
It’s YouTube, they don’t need “exposure”. They are out to make a profit.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
It can. But the average impact is still positive.
- Comment on Why and when should I use LVM? 11 months ago:
Very interesting, thanks for the message. I might use it in my next Nas, but my workstation is staying on regular lvm, too much hassle to change probably…
- Comment on Why and when should I use LVM? 11 months ago:
Care to elaborate about these ZFS features?
- Comment on prick 11 months ago:
He can do “science”!
- Comment on CHEESE 1 year ago:
#cheese
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
I appreciate that, but I don’t think the vast majority support alternatives. It’s just “I want it free and I want it now”.
Also, if you don’t support Google you most probably don’t support the creators, very few of them have patreon or similar and just rely on ad revenue/sponsors.
I am not bothered by Google at all, at least in the EU you have pretty good control about the data they collect and I feel it’s used well. I get pretty good recommendations on YouTube and the ads I get on other sites are at least somewhat relevant.
I see the chances of a competitor replacing it and being more privacy-friendly close to none. Maybe TikTok will replace YouTube over as GenZ takes over, and I see that as a solid negative.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
I pay for Youtube, but I’m clearly in the minority. Look at all the pitchforks in this thread not willing to pay one cent or watch one ad but demanding the content…
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
If you watch the news and one movie you also reach 3 hours.
I watch 30 min in the morning while getting ready (usually late night shows from the previous day - mostly listening), 30 minutes to an hour during lunch (LTT, MKBHD, other tech channels or maybe a car review) and a longer session in the evening when the kids are in bed (documentaries or chess tutorials, or programming content, or something longer/more in depth where I can dedicate my full attention).
I don’t find it really unhealthy, works for me.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
That’s what Youtube is trying. Either pay or at least stop using it, so you don’t cost them money.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
And who will pay for those?
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Every time Netflix rises prices it makes it to the news (let alone all the drama on twitter/reddit/etc), I don’t know what frog boiling you’re talking about.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
There is a ton of quality content, I watch 3 hours a day and can’t make a dent on my “watch later” queue.
News, popular science, hobbies, humor, tech…
- Comment on Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library 1 year ago:
I love KDE’s “extract here, autodetect folder” feature for compressed files
- Comment on youtube getting more agressive 1 year ago:
I’m sure using hours of 4k bandwidth while getting nothing in return is a great deal for alphabet… 🙄
Bandwidth is EXPENSIVE. If you are not clicking on the ads and not even watching the ads, every minute you use the site is costing them money. They are just optimizing costs by cutting all “leechers”.
YouTube doesn’t need “exposure” or to “convince investors of an active user base”. They don’t need to keep users that cost them money because they have enough users already. They are well into the “monetization” phase.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
I moved to YouTube premium a few years ago, family subscription, to share with up to 5 people. YouTube is my main source of entertainment and the 15 bucks total (or whatever the conversion rate is) is less than 90 minutes of a movie in a cinema, nit even including transportation and snacks. I get my news, tech news/reviews, tutorials, documentaries, inspiration and laughs on there. I watch it while getting ready in the morning, on my lunch break and for a longer while in the evening. I share it with 2 other people so it works out to around 5 bucks a month. And the creators I like get a big portion of that.
Sure, around 60 bucks a year might sound a lot, but it’s the only service I pay for (except the 2 bucks a month Disney plus trial until December). As a small bonus YouTube music transformed my Google home devices into a multi-room audio Sonos alternative for under 1/3 of the price.
I still use NewPipe on my phone for downloads for offline use and yt-dlp for content I want to hoard.