Dramatic much? Canceling a subscription is ‘the unthinkable’ now? For fuck’s sake.
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable “Do I really need 300 subscriptions?”
Not aiding capitalism by canceling a subscription = suicide
FoRcInG uSeRs To CoNsIdEr ThE uNtHiNkAbLe
Fuck off bootlickers
Lol, piracy, the logical solution.
There isn’t a single device in my home that shows YouTube ads.
I’ll jump through any hoop before I give that shit website money.
Aah, shit website but you still watch it… oh, the irony
Yet you participate in society. Curious.
I don’t think that soviety is shit. I think we have done wonderful things in society. And we keep making it better. Every society has its problems, but there is a way to make them better.
Without society there wouldn’t be literature, medicine, knowlidge, science, etc.
Yes, there are bad things also, but as I said, we can and must make them better. And if you watch in the long run through history there is no better time to be living than now.
Yup.
I think capitalism is shit but I’m still forced to participate in it. Until there is something better to use I’m stuck with YouTube.
Nobody is forcing you to consume content on the internet, this is a laughable defense. You aren’t forced by society or capitalism to watch YouTube.
You’re absolutely right.
However, if I can consume said content without giving money to companies who are going over and above to be anti-consumer? I’ll 100% take advantage of that.
If YouTube wants to go out of their way to make it harder for me to watch legally, I’ll go out of my way to watch illegally. You think I pay for 17 different streaming services for TV shows me or my partner want to watch? Fuck all that we pay for IPTV.
Pirates like me don’t want to have to jump hoops to watch your shit. But all these streaming platforms, Youtube, Twitch, the greed has become so hard to ignore that it’s impossible to rationalize paying them to fuck you anyway. Pay $18 a month for this service to watch this show, but this other show is on another service for another $16 a month. Fuck all that I’ll just open up whichever pirating site I have saved and download the fucking show in a half hour and toss it on my external HDD and watch it anyway.
I have no respect for companies that don’t respect their consumers.
I can respect the honesty that you just want shit for free at least lol
I can’t stand people that try to pretend that they’re taking a moral stand when they just don’t want to pay people for the work they consume.
Lmao
There’s Peertube, Vimeo, and others
Okay. Let me know when the dozens of content creators I follow on YouTube migrate there.
“Content creators” lol. I mean, I guess there could be, but YT stopped being decent about 10 years ago, maybe longer. I haven’t used it but for an occasional video. Surprisingly, I haven’t missed it. There’s not much on YouTube I couldn’t get elsewhere, with less ads, and to the point vs a 10 minute video intro plus sponsor plugs, etc.
And when they try to force online ID bullshit I’ll permanently walk away. We don’t deserve the WWW if its just full of scammers. I’d rather rewatch my favorite anime for the millionth time.
And the unthinkable is as blockers. Wow
Arrrrr
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
… Death???
Prostitution
Woah… Morbid much?
The answer is obvious. Going outside.
Avada Kedavra!
Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn’t solve many of the problems that still exist:
- being shown the same content over and over
- Dislikes hidden
- in-video ads
- Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
- broken search results
- AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
- crypto spam
- Google-connected account using view history to spy on you
etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won’t.
in-video ads
They do actually have an in-built skip for this. It’s not as good as sponsor block though
I have like 8 or 9 plugins for Firefox and just to make YouTube remotely usable. That doesn’t account for the 8 or 9 more on top of that to make the internet remote usable.
You can get rid of the actually relevant issues with premium and giving negative reactions to unwanted content. I barely get shown AI stuff.
You can’t though. That was my entire point.
Well, I can.
Get Revanced and you can also block shorts from the UI completely, on top of no ads
Yes, that was my entire point.
Morphe fixes most of that.
What is Morphe?
So the people making Revanced had an argument…
They split…morphe is a hard fork without a certain reddit mod…
IMO, the real talent has abandoned ship and are now producing Morphe.
It’s just like (re)vanced. It’s designed to patch apps so they work more how you want them to.
Interesting, thanks for the context
Well that’s exactly my point.
Soooo true. What service are you even paying for, they change their business focus and now you get shorts. The best way to viee youtube is with an ad free frontend.
Unsubscribing and installing UBlock Origin is perfectly thinkable. It also gets which side is the “dark side” wrong.
I’d gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.
At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.
But let’s be honest, they’re not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it’s just 5-9’s of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.
at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.
The ‘unthinkable’ of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?
The unthinkable? lmao
How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
“For the first time in three years” is a weird way to phrase regular price increases.
It’s even worse than that. They increase the price right after they increase the ad length. As in “well, now that ads are longer, this subscription has more value. Therefore we should increase the price”.
For me the unthinkable is giving my hard earned money to a multi billion dollar corporation
Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won’t you think of the corpos??
Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it’s absurd and bad and all that.
I must be stupid, because I can never tell.
Are mice stupid for falling into traps designed for them?
You’re not stupid, you just need to learn done telltale signs. Most the time, for me, it’s post history.
There is an assumption these people are making that I am not sure they are aware they are making. They are assuming the cost of running YouTube is increasing so the cost of YouTube premium needs to increase. Every public company is driven by maximizing share holder value, the goal is to extract as much money as possible from the user.
If I’m paying, it will be to nebula. YouTube is toxic.
I like nebula but I kinda miss having comments under the video. The negative comments can be overwhelming but I like seeing if other commenters noticed the same things I did and if the creator has responded to them.
Why is everything being done “quietly” lately?
Announcing price hikes is bad marketing
I’m speaking more of the reporting. It seems like every headline claims something is being done “quietly” now when it was actually announced loud and clear. Take this price hike, for example. I got an email from Google last week telling me the price went up. That wasn’t “quietly”. “Quietly” would be raising the price completely unannounced and hoping no one notices.
The answer is simple: the site that published the article is complete garbage
Because its a covering instead of saying underhanded or sneaky or tricking users.
“I didn’t steal, I was just quietly sneaking money from their wallet!”
