Wasn't this pretty recent? Did they buy the company just to lay people off??
AnonTwo
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You're right, people won't care.
But i'm not being sympathetic, i'm being realistic. I just know the end-point is going to be bad and leave everyone disappointed. Google isn't going to try less, and none of the alternative sites popping up are remotely able to keep up. Many existed in youtube's time and either died out or they're still around and nobody cares.
I'm sure one day youtube will go away and take all the videos of 20 years with it, as well as leave people with nowhere to go just rubbing their heads trying to figure out where their content can go.
I will say though: Youtube needs users. Google doesn't need users. They can go to any of their other products if they ever determine youtube isn't worth it.
...That...doesn't bode well when they already have an alternative revenue option. It sounds like the adblock is hurting their revenue, and the alternative options aren't making it up.
Like that doesn't sound like they have a good reason to stop trying.
They're not recycling anything though. They're hosting it. For 90% of therm they're not even charging the person to host it.
That's only possible because of ads, because it's not out of the kindness of their hearts. If there was not just value but negative value in Youtube, they would just shut Youtube down. Yeah, they make a lot more money than they need to maintain youtube. But they'd probably prefer to put that money towards the things actually making them money.
And yeah, it would be nice if some site existed that wasn't corporate driven, but most of them either have no content, or are just siphoning off of Youtube's content anyway.
And yes, you can say Youtube's (users) content, and it virtually makes no difference in the grand scheme of things. Hosting the content is still required to do.
To be fair, he was talking about live streams, as in watching people in real-time.
That can be a fairly different experience, especially since downloaders don't grab the chat at the moment. Also for unarchived streams, they can only be downloaded if you are aware and able to download at the time that the stream is still active.
I don't know the methods myself as I haven't used them, But yeah I have heard something like that can bypass the live account requirement.
And yeah, i disabled onedrive myself because due to how old my stuff is I have a ton of stuff in the documents folder that...basically caused me issues and at one point nearly got all that stuff deleted when onedrive capped out.
But that's another story I guess. I can't say i'm using it to it's maximum ability.
You're just saying how most TOA's are...they're hardly ever enforced that way, just because of the publicity it would give them. And most TOA's aren't even legally binding and this is definitely something that would face litigation.
If your issue with it is the vagueness, you might as well get off the grid now. Most TOA's are written that way.
Sources that don't actually prove anything aren't good sources....
I think it's currently an on/off switch. Some music you can download and some is streaming only
If you have the local MP3 file you can do just about anything you want with it. Use it in just about any device. Transfer it anywhere. And never lose it.
I have Mp3s that are over 20-30 years old and have never needed to get them again.
And yes I go to piracy almost immediately if I can't get a local file. Just because of how many different ways i've used them over the years.
I don't think saying "All memes are political" is exclusively a right thing to dislike.
Especially since a lot of memes grew from people who were absolutely too young to be thinking about politics.
Sure there are memes that are political, but to say all memes are is just kindof...appropriating?
I mean it's entirely possible I don't know the political significance of pepe, but I was also never really shown a reason to ask.
So is this basically saying youtube isn't allowed to detect an adblocker?
I'm not sure I really follow why that specifically is something they're policing.