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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Sorry Google.
I'm gonna use YouTube ad free or I won't use it.
And I ain't gonna pay for it.
Asking genuinely, if you were in charge of YouTube, and you don't think anyone should pay for YouTube, and you don't think you should run ads, how exactly would you go about paying for the massive amount of engineers and infrastructure needed to keep the lights on?
For me personally, I would rather pay for a service than with my time via ads.
That said, the services provided these days are unreliable, gatekept, metered and not enjoyable. Why should I pay for shitty service?
Therefore I’m only left with one option and my wellies are strapped tight! 🫡
But YouTube Premium is incredibly reliable, unlimited, and full of enjoyable content? (i.e., all of YouTube)
I think you just don't want to pay.
I don't want to pay what they're asking no.
if people can get things for free
they’re going to get things for free
Mmm not the whole truth, and that is why they get away with it:
https://youtu.be/4Q3ZXQZZlcE?si=bZLNupgMEnn_uWDS
Netflix does similar things it would seem
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/4Q3ZXQZZlcE?si=bZLNupgMEnn_uWDS
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
What other video platforms does Louis Rossmann upload his stuff to, by the way?
He does, you know. But I notice you aren't watching him there.
Not sure I use a proxy application to watch YouTube videos
So you could be using and supporting alternate platforms, but YouTube is so valuable to you that you don't bother.
Who said I don’t? Why can’t I use both?
You’re trying to fabricate a point here, and I just don’t think it fits me
I don't believe you do because you would've linked to it instead of YouTube. You claim to hate that business, yet you direct people to engage on it.
You're getting on a moral high horse about how it's fair and right to pirate from YouTube because of their bad behavior, yet when given a free alternative platform to view the videos from a creator you respect enough to link, you don't. You go to YouTube.
Let's give an example:
Apparently not very hard at all, since there was a totally Google-free way to get the content you want that supports the creator even better and is free and yet here you are not using it.
I Square peg doesn’t fit the round hole.
I linked the video out of my application, which links google. Further, less people would reach his content if I posted an invidious, piped, etc link if they aren’t familiar (and my target audience isn’t people using these services, so obviously I would choose the option that would get my target audiences attention best)
I don’t represent that entire community, as much as you’d like to repaint me into a group. I’m an individual who shares some things in common with masses, and other things are unique to me.
Moral high ground? It’s fucking simple. Give me quality service for what I pay, or I go elsewhere.
I’m done arguing with you about MY OWN viewpoint which I think everyone else very clearly understands.
Talk about being on a high horse LMAO the irony.
You legitimately do not understand that there are alternatives to YouTube. It's fucking embarrassing.
And that's no small part of why Google has such market control. Because people like you give it to them enthusiastically.
PS: it's Rumble. That's the actual alternative (with a HEAVY emphasis on the "alt" in "alternative") you could use to watch Rossmann if you really are so passionate about how bad Google is. Plus Rossmann also is one of the cofounders of GrayJay.