meh, its still not inconvenient enough to pay 10+ dollars a month. The state of adverts online is so egregious that I would probably sooner stop watching Youtube than pay or put up with ads.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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Don't care, still better than the ads.
I'll sit for 2 minutes in front of a black screen and it'll still be better than 45 seconds of ads.
Did exactly that early days of hulu.
They will never be happy with how much money they squeeze out of it. When people are watching videos that are 99% ads and the content is limited to two alternating pixels they will still find a way to further optimize their profit-taking. Nothing is ever good enough for the hyper-capitalist; product managers are a disease.
Eventually they'll start demanding you run their crypto-miners in order to watch a video.
Not only that but the bit-rate as of late seems horrendous, 1080 looks more like 720 or lower with artifacts all over the place.
Yes, some video have a 1080p Premium high nitrate quality option that you need to pay for. It's just the standard quality, but the free 1080p is now shitty.
It's very sad there isn't anything that can even remotely compare to YouTube at this time. All the content is there, can't get it elsewhere. At least with Firefox, ublock and SponsorBlock, it's bearable.
Oh, did you not pay for YouTube Extra Premium Plus for the enhanced bit rate?
Bloody peasant...
And really you're just paying extra for the original 1080 bitrate. What a fucking scam, like I'd pay for that crap.
Artificial scarcity so you'll pay their dumb subscription fee
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and i might just stop using youtube. does youtube think there aren't other options?
That’s great! I spend too much time on yt, it’ll break me of my addiction and I’ll do something else besides passive consumption.
Jokes on you, I already watch them at 0.5x speed
"Might"... it's introducing an artificial delay when loading videos.
That explains the "are you experiencing interruptions" message I keep getting these days, though I kinda expected this.
If you press on the "learn more" button, it brings you to a page that ends with "try disabling extensions, such as adblockers".
Oh no! You are going to make your platform work like ass? And you expect us to do mental gymnastics in such a way that instead of blaming you (you know the one that has control over the platform) we blame uBlock? The same uBlock that has made using your platform bearable for many years, to the point that I will sit in silence with the screen off instead of watch with ads?
I think even if you make us wait a min before playing the video most would take that over an ad.
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Please support peertube sites - here's a list of instances to find something matching your interests: https://joinpeertube.org/instances
Relevant as well:
They've added two more days to the current donation request https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
Stop feeding me dog shit AI videos about a condom delivery boy who has to deliver some to a hotel only to find his girlfriend cheating on him and maybe I’ll stop blocking ads you fuck sticks
Condom delivery service you say? 🤔
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Ads on youtube are getting even more stupid. Does anyone get those ads about "procastinations" and "ADHD"? It starts off with some songs like "Procastination isnt your fault....." and some dolls dancing? So annoying
Haven't seen ads in 10 years, people actually use the internet without ublock?
So annoying
Those two words describe about every ad on youtube.
YouTube was lagging to play vids the other day now i wonder if it was A B testing. screw off YouTube. 10 ads for a 20 minute video isn't normal and never will be. also the ads pause if you aren't watching them. wtf? as always I expect uBlock Origin to get around this
they also slow down videos if I use Firefox.
YouTube can eat my ass.
Youtube works a lot better for me after switching from Firefox to Librewolf.
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If it takes too long to load I just use yt-dlp to download the video or whole playlist and watch it later. Do I care that it's putting additional strain on YouTube's servers? Indeed, I'm devastated and overtaken with guilt 😂 These are tears of regret, I swear 😂
yt-dlp is fucking awesome and it will be a sad day if it ever gets taken down or blocked.
we live in a neoliberal gorgon dystopia
You said it hombre😅
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