The US Postal Service should get in on this action.
not the first time capitalism asks you for money to solve problems capitalism created…
It’s one or the other. If you pay YouTube for Premium and don’t get any ads, advertisers don’t pay for your ad impression.
wish there was an option for “pay the platform the few cents the ads make” instead of me paying the platform a wild and ever increasing amount of money
Tbh I feel like they should take a ~30% cut from the creator tips feature and add that to a “ad balance” which would remove ads and subtract the few cents they would’ve got from the ad. That way YouTube gets paid, the consumer doesn’t get ads, and the creator gets encouraged to make good content.
Finally a non-braindead comment.
Speak only for yourself. In the meantime, I use uBlock.
Inb4 they lock youtube behind DRMs with hardware authentication.
(Some apps don’t run on third-party OS like Graphene OS anymore, that could be the future of technology)
If they make it too hard I’ll stop watching. I have no intention of watching their ads (ads are psychological abuse), and they charge way-yyy too much for premium.
If they make it too hard I’ll stop watching.
Exactly. There is practically an infinite supply of entertainment with a wide variety these days. There are too many alternatives to care about any single source.
Yeah, at some point it will become just like cable TV, which I don’t watch, so… There’s plenty of other stuff out there.
The point you’re talking about was 2016.
Knowing what people are like, that won’t stop adblockers for long
Use third party clients
Freetube baybeeeeee
Speak only for yourself. I just don’t use YouTube. Like, at all. /s but not /s
This can’t seriously be surprising for anybody, youtube with its on-demand unlimited video storage and streaming has to be one of the biggest money sinks on the internet.
We all bought a free subscription to it for life with our data that they stole before we even had a sense of it being a problem.
I scrape videos off of YouTube using Pinchflat which dumps them into a folder, predownloaded for me, which I then have connected to a Jellyfin server that splits each channel up as an individual series, ads and bumpers stripped entirely, and it automatically downloads videos as they release.
Paying sounded too involved. Make a google account, etc…
Who has the time?
Bro I think you just created a reason for me to build my next server. Thank you for this!
Honest? Wallet was on the other side of the room.
It was legit easier to run docker commands on my phone.
lol, np
Lmao nice
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Ever heard of Elsevier? You pay them for the privilege of posting your article, and then they charge other people for the privilege of accessing it.
And they don’t pay the people actually proofreading/peer reviewing the stuff
Now that’s just comically evil. Who designed this system, Spez?
I’d pay YouTube if it were $5/month instead of $15.
In fact, a couple of my favorite YouTube creators are on nebula.tv and I pay them $30/year.
Family plan is 5 or 6 google accounts for 22$ a month. That’s what I do
Nebula rules I always make a point to check there first. Great for treadmill shows and stuff
Is a treadmill show just something you watch while you’re on the treadmill?
honestly i’m not sure lol. I prefer shows I don’t have to pay too much attention to but i always end up watching real life lore/geopolitic/news videos and get really wrapped up in them. I’ll probably classify them as shows that i watch in my own and not with my fiance.
Right I meant more the expression itself, first time I see it I think.
I’d pay YouTube if it were $5/month instead of $15.
It’s less than 5/month on the family plan IF you have 4 other people you’d like to share with
The family plan is the only reason I pay for premium lol.
I’d gladly pay €15 a month if they guaranteed not to track me on the internet.
I pay $14CAD for Crunchyroll and I don’t even use it that much. I use hours and hours of Youtube content pretty much every day. I also had Nebula but need to get that sorted again now that they aren’t with Curiosity Stream.
People will pay for a lot of stuff but ask them to pay for Youtube and they will lose their damn minds.
YouTube doesn’t even produce their own content. I’d rather get it somewhere else, if creators offer that option.
Sure, but considering just how much they need to store and serve to viewers at the highest speed I kinda get it. Look if it was $20CAD a month I’d definitely reconsider, and if they start putting ads in anyway I’ll cancel because I’m not paying to still see that shit, but for now it’s fine.
Netflix serves more.
I wish Nebula had official support for third party clients.
What I really want is a more decentralized approach. Hosting video is expensive so it would be idea if it could be offloaded to smaller community devices instead of huge server farms.
There’s Peertube but it’s a model that requires a lot more people to work well. I tried to watch a video but nobody was seeding. That was my first experience with it.
Doesn’t Grayjay have Nebula support?
No official support
Official support from Nebula or from Grayjay? I reinstalled and it’s definitely in there.
Support from Nebula
They would lose money with every user if this was the case, UNLESS they stopped paying creators entirely
Nebula confuses me, to the point I wonder if I use the app completely differently or the owners post online everywhere how great they are.
I tried it several years ago and it seemed like there wasn’t much content. Figured it was too new. I tried it again a couple months ago and there was still the same lack of content.
A lot of topics have no videos at all. The ones that do have maybe one of two creators who make all the videos on that subject.
I could not figure out a way to unsubscribe, the only option was to delete account. Checking every option and setting in both the app and online. Customer service didn’t respond until two months later.
No worries they eventually got me unsubscribed. For whatever reason, that option never showed up. It just said what plan I was on under manage plan.
Could just be that they’ve fixed their interface since then.
*and we block YouTube ads to not show ads
The bourgeoisie (parasites) pay the bourgeoisie (parasites) to make their service worse in an attempt to extract more capital from you. You give the bourgeoisie capital… to stop them from making their service worse in order to take your capital?
This is a lose lose for you and a win win for corpo scum. Use an Adblock, take to the seven seas, use platforms that are decentralized. Then it’s a win win for you and, added bonus, it’s typically parasite free.
You forgot the part where they pay the video creator 50% of the money and use the other 50% to run one of the most computationally expensive and complex services on the internet.
I had three adverts slapped on one of my videos on my crummy 4 subscriber channel and I don’t get a single penny from it.
It doesn’t make any cents.
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I don’t know about computationaly expensive. Once video is processed, it’s mostly just a fancy CDN.
I was sort of lumping storage and compute costs together as “compute” but compute itself is probably astronomical too.
Even if it was just a CDN, a cdn at that scale streaming that much content simultaneously would require a huge amount of compute just to handle the streaming request traffic.
There’s also the recommendation algorithm which is powered by ai and takes a shit ton of parameters, at that scale that would be a massive computational task in and of itself.
Even video processing they probably send it through a couple Ai pipelines to add subtitles, make sure it’s not porn, check if your discussing topics with high misinformation so it can put that Wikipedia link below the video, etc.
All that plus probably another million other little problems that comes with running a service at that scale.
Wouldn’t serving video and bandwidth concerns count as complexity?
Youtube sends me data, I simply do not accept it. Simple as. No higher argument is needed
Meanwhile YouTubers don’t get paid enough so they still show you their ads.
Sponsorblock.
The thing with advertising is that the advertisers make more money in product sales from people who watched ads than they spend telling YT to push their ads. That’s just how the advertising business works.
In other words, either the viewers pay youtube not to show ads, or the viewers pay the advertisers to pay youtube (in a roundabout way).
So it’s just you paying in both cases, unless you use an adblocker :)
PSA: firefox + ublock origin blocks youtube ads even on mobile (on android at least)
People on iPhone can use “Firefox Focus” it’s a browser with no tabs, just a single window with Adblock.
So you’re saying the audience for the ads have the people who are willing to pay for stuff, the very people the advertisers are paying to reach, removed from it.
I wonder how much longer this will go before the advertisers catch on to that.
