• hellishharlot@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    ublock origin on my PC works amazing. I forget yt has ads most of the time. If web drm becomes a thing I’ll hopefully have a pinhole in front of my traffic by then

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      Not sure if you meant pihole or not, but if you did, I thought I’d just mention that a pihole doesn’t remove ads on YouTube due to the fact that the ads and the videos are served from the same server. You block the ads, you block the videos. Made me quite sad after I set my one up.

      Unless you didn’t mean pihole, in which case do enlighten me as to what a pinhole is :))

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    If money could stop things from enshitifying, there would be very few shitty things on the planet.

    If everybody on the planet subscribed to YouTube premium they would still become enshittified.

    Even with 8 billion monthly subscriptions at $10 a month or more, Google would raise the prices and provide less service.

    They would do whatever they have to do whatever they can do to extract the most amount of money they possibly can out of the product.

    This is not just because Google is a shit company, this is because greed knows no bounds. The only way for a company to stop being enshitified is for the company from the top down to be radically opposed to enshittification.

    Only a good King can stop enshittification.

    There are no good Kings in Google.

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    No, you love the creators you watch. Youtube, as a google company, created a businessmodel out of stealing data/private information and selling it to the highest bidder. I use newpipe, i never see ads but if i have a creator i want to support i send them money as direct as possible without middlemen (direct donations during livestreams for example). i pay the creator for their work. If google wouldn’t violate my human dignity by shoving a camera up my ass 24/7 i might consider giving them money to run their servers but as long as they try to make me a product they won’t see money nor data from me

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      That’s a fair point, maybe I should look into using newpipe and use what was my monthly payment as a direct donation to my favorite creators instead. Thanks for the informative reply!

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    I’m still annoyed at the removal of google play music. I want to just buy tracks or albums, instead of a subscription, and just own a flac/mp3/music file I can do anything with.

    I rip cds now, and feel 0 guilt for that even though its illegal here because quite frankly the artists are getting more money this way.

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    Sorry, but I’ll pay for it when they stop spying on everything I do. And worse, is that they make it intentionally bad when you turn off suggestions.

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    Got a new phone and number.

    Wanted to log into YouTube.

    Had to wait a month to get the verification email because google is a shitshow when it comes to security.

    Ended up never using google products since then ever again.

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    Installing ublock origins and sponsorblock is not jumping through hoops

    And Google.with its basically infinite money should name it worthwhile to be paid for. But YouTube premium is garbage

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        Ads are but a few sheckles nowadays or we wouldnt have sponors merch and every other cash revenues for even the most mildly “successfull” creators

        Perhaps you are also forgetting YouTube puts ads on videos now regardless if the creator has the abiity to do that

        10 years ago, ads may have been the main source for creators

        Edit: cant forget em3 ads back to back or some.people haveeven seen 10 back to back, no creator is good enough to deserve that kind of torture to sift through as a viewer