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*and we block YouTube ads to not show ads

Speak only for yourself. In the meantime, I use uBlock.

Use third party clients

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.

Knowing what people are like, that won’t stop adblockers for long

Speak only for yourself. I just don’t use YouTube. Like, at all. /s but not /s

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.

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.

Doesn’t Grayjay have Nebula support?

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.

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.

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 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.

I’d gladly pay €15 a month if they guaranteed not to track me on the internet.

They would lose money with every user if this was the case, UNLESS they stopped paying creators entirely

Family plan is 5 or 6 google accounts for 22$ a month. That’s what I do

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.

YouTube keeps uBlock functioning to keep me going to their website.

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