Eh fair. I honestly hadn’t even considered downloading from the website cuz that just doesn’t feel like piracy to me. I was picturing somebody torrenting Mr beast
Ah yeah, I get what you mean. But basically anything where people cannot directly download a video but have to resort to some additional software to download the video, that’s basically piracy.
Now some people won’t know about yt-dlp and the sorts, so they maybe even do go for torrents, again, why not? If you are such a fan of Mr. Beast (no judgement here) and that dude has surely hundreds if not thousands of videos by now, a torrent could include all of a series of his videos that you are interested in. So it is actually then more convenient to torrent them instead of downloading them one by one.
Tldr different people have different interests and usecases
I used to with vanced because I wanted background play. Originally I pirated because I didn’t agree with PAYING for a feature that is free on desktop and was free on mobile until Google deliberately disabled it. Then Vanced stopped working because, you know, and revanced just didn’t work for me. Revanced worked for boost for reddit after, well, you know, but not YouTube. So I actually eventually I started paying to have no ads and it turns out the other features like the not-really-sponsorblock and queuing are pretty useful. And I don’t use Netflix or the others (I don’t watch TV) so being a YouTube power user justified paying. I don’t mind paying. But if they do show ads (I read the context) on standard premium I’m not paying.
Oh hell no, not after they started raising prices in other countries. I don’t want to pirate again.
All you have to do is install Ublock…
Who tf pirates YouTube
Why tf not. Videos get deleted at times. Or for offline watching. Lots of reasons really.
Eh fair. I honestly hadn’t even considered downloading from the website cuz that just doesn’t feel like piracy to me. I was picturing somebody torrenting Mr beast
Ah yeah, I get what you mean. But basically anything where people cannot directly download a video but have to resort to some additional software to download the video, that’s basically piracy.
Now some people won’t know about yt-dlp and the sorts, so they maybe even do go for torrents, again, why not? If you are such a fan of Mr. Beast (no judgement here) and that dude has surely hundreds if not thousands of videos by now, a torrent could include all of a series of his videos that you are interested in. So it is actually then more convenient to torrent them instead of downloading them one by one.
Tldr different people have different interests and usecases
You wouldn’t steal a youtube
I used to with vanced because I wanted background play. Originally I pirated because I didn’t agree with PAYING for a feature that is free on desktop and was free on mobile until Google deliberately disabled it. Then Vanced stopped working because, you know, and revanced just didn’t work for me. Revanced worked for boost for reddit after, well, you know, but not YouTube. So I actually eventually I started paying to have no ads and it turns out the other features like the not-really-sponsorblock and queuing are pretty useful. And I don’t use Netflix or the others (I don’t watch TV) so being a YouTube power user justified paying. I don’t mind paying. But if they do show ads (I read the context) on standard premium I’m not paying.
-Lemmy
I’m amazed it still works that well to be honest. Have it on Firefox on my phone as well 👌🏼