• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Ngl, I run Firefox and the usual suite of adblockers and haven’t experienced any issues. I do the same on my phone (Firefox in “desktop mode”).

  • SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 hours ago

    I didn’t use adblockers when they had occasional normal ad breaks. Now when I have to watch on a TV app its just a garbage experience.

  • N.E.P.T.REnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    YouTube is a monopoly. The reason no one really uses multiple platforms to upload videos at the same level as YouTube is because it was run for a long time at a lose to push out all competition. I have no simpthy.

  • Rin@lemm.ee
    35·
    13 hours ago

    I will not use youtube and use ads. The sooner they break my adblocker, the sooner i won’t be on their platform

  • Soup@lemmy.world
    7·
    12 hours ago

    I ended up paying for it because, frankly, expecting Youtube to be completely free and fighting how it could be paid for is kinda crazy. We’re just used to it being free but running Youtube is expensive. I watch hours of Youtube nearly every day and don’t use Crunchyroll nearly as much so why am I ok paying for that but not Youtube?

    Yes, if they do actually start pushing ads then I’m going to wonder what the hell I’m paying for but for the time being I’m ok with paying for a service. I only started paying for it recently, to be fair, but I get it.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Give an inch, they take a mile

      Instead of trying to make money, they should be looking at how to operate without it

      Peertube is an example of figuring this out

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 hours ago

        How to operate without money? Hosting countless hours of high-quality video on demand and streaming it to your computer at highspeed? Are you high?

        I had never heard of Peertube before your comment and it sounds great! It also puts a lot on the content creator, though, and regardless of whether Youtube should follow that model or not how would you expect them to make that change? Just suddenly tell every creator that they must start self-hosting? Genius, that’ll go over so well!

        Peertube themselves are saying that they don’t want to replace Youtube, simply to offer alternatives and choice(which I’m cool with).

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          2·
          8 hours ago

          The transition would be saving videos users watch on their devices not just creators

          However it’s just one path, if Google’s engineers find a better solution then they can do that.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
      6·
      12 hours ago

      It depends how many hours per month you use it I guess.

      I am fine paying for Netflix (it is quite cheap here as well) which I watch probably at least 20-30 hours per month but not for youtube which I use for the music maybe an hour per week or less.

      YouTube frequency of commercials is unacceptable. If they were to play a commercial every half an hour or so, I would say it is too often but I would understand it.

      They don’t, they try to play a commercial every other song start, so every 7-10 minutes. They are taking a piss.

      • no banana@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 hour ago

        edit: for context, I have 7000 hours of uninterrupted streaming on YouTube. It’s been well worth the cost to me. But this is with the model being ad-free. If that ever changed I would need to re-evaluate my position, but I do like that my subscription can give support to creators (support which is larger per view than that of an ad user) at the same time.

      • ZorsithEnglish
        9·
        11 hours ago

        At the end of the day, Google is just going to double dip and take your money, and still sell your data.

        They are, first and foremost, an ad company. Their money maker is the data they get from you; your viewing habits and whatever they can scrape from your computer.

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I don’t get any commercials now and I use it for all kinds of stuff from educational videos to hours and hours of things like D&D streams. It’s all worth it.

        You pay nothing for it and complain about commercials. I don’t want to go shilling for corporations but whining about Youtube paying the bills is just sad, bud.