I've been using you daily since before you were bought by Google. I have watched undoubted millions of youtube videos over the last 17 years.
The mother fucking nanosecond you start blocking me from watching your content because I have an ad blocker is the moment I sit here and just rip every each and every single mother fucking video I want to watch to view entirely offline. Given you've tried and failed for a decade now to stop us from doing that I trust it'll solve both our needs, you won't have me blocking your ads, and I won't need to ever see em. Savvy? Savvy!
With a level of spite indescribable,
Me.
Edit: For those whining about my entitlement: QQ more idc.
Edit 2: Ya'll still commenting and downvoting a week later while I haven't thought about any of you at all lmao. Rent free!
Oh trust me my 30TB of HDD's and ADHD already got started on the data hoarding front many a year ago. Haven't had a paid subscription to anything since Netflix in 2014 lmao.
Then they logically wouldn't have cared about the adblock in the first place...? Although I'm intending to go back to doing the same and it's not about whether I make them sad or not. It's a quality of life thing.
How can you feel this level of entitlement - surely you should just be grateful for the 17 years and millions of videos you have been able to watch for free?!?!
There are also discussions and (small) flame wars ☺️
Feels like ‘back in the day’ where everything was a bit wonky but people could actually help eachother (and not being nudge nudge nudged all the time to be distracted by something else).
Yeah for real. Enshittification has gotten me permanently off Facebook for like 4 years and Twitter for like 10. Reddit now for a few months. Getting ready to leave YouTube.
Are you me? I have been off of Twitter and Facebook for years now. Reddit is dead to me. YouTube seems like it’s heading in the shitter. I’ve also been playing more guitar lately too! I’m still early on, I think I’m progressing nicely but I’m firmly in the “novice” stage. Take it from someone who didn’t exercise at all before, you’ll do yourself great even taking a nice walk for 20-30 minutes every day possible. It gets easier everyday, and they become enjoyable.
Haha pretty close! I’m more of a veteran guitar player. Just very rusty. Used to be 4-6 hrs a day. Now is more like 4-6 hrs a month. Last month was more like 4-6 hrs a week though!!
I hiked a lot during the pandemic! New job has had me sitting at my desk and ordering delivery though. Too much pot and beer, and I’m starting to feel winded doing things that are setting off some early alarm bells lol
I decided to get offline more and get more exercise. I found a personal trainer who runs his own gym. He has a media center set up to play music. It plays youtube videos. Without an adblock.
I’ve seen more youtube ads at the gym than I’ve seen when I’m doomscrolling at home.
It’s a mess that at the moment there are no real competitors with the amount of Videos of YouTube. The only possibility at the moment is to use a Frond-end, like JewTube, CloudTube, Piped, a Desktop client like FreeTube, or if you need to share a YT vidieo, to watch it sandboxed in the search results of Andisearch and copy the link from there. https://file.coffee/u/wmPYw9AiaEBf3nu-DyCBo.png
No one here considers that we might not need a “competitor” for YouTube at all. Videos have been a disaster for the web. Information that can easily be relayed and digested in a 1000-word article is instead stretched into a 30-40 minute video with ad breaks. The less aid about TikTok, Instagram, and other bullshit video platforms the best. We don’t need this shit. We need to go back to Web 1.0. Web as a means to share information and talk to people. There’s no room for ShitTube there.
I quit YouTube (you can delete your YouTube data without deleting the Google account btw) and I feel better. I couldn’t find anything interesting there for the love of me. I intend to binge cozy Minecraft letsplays on Odysee once I have Internet again. I really hate videos as a format. They have use, but they’re by far overused. I strongly encourage everyone to reject what companies want us to use, look inside and reflect on what you need and what brings you happiness, then abandon corporate, delete your data and thrive.
Youtube is also now forcing you to turn on watch history for recommendations. Needless to say, I‘ve been on YouTube a lot less lately. (And that‘s probably a good thing.)
Quick! Let’s move all Youtube channels to the fediverse (PeerTube), before people are getting conditioned to another sick behavior created by rich people.
Mastodon exploded when Elon took over Twitter. Lemmy exploded when Reddit changed it’s api rules. I think the problem is not that YouTube doesn’t fuck things up, because they often do. Perhaps the alternatives are not good enough for early majority to migrate. We need more early adopters to migrate ASAP. (I’m thinking of PeerTube, but perhaps Odyssee has beter changes at the moment)
Odyssee I tried them ages ago and stopped, because of the crypto stuff and lack of content interesting to me. I quit YouTube a while ago so I’ll give them another try. :)
I switched to Nebula its affordable and has lots of interesting content from YouTubers I most often watched. Their business is sustainable, pays the creators fairly and has no ads or recommendation algorithm.
I’ve also tried out Odyssey and had the same issues with it. There was one or two channels I would actually watch, but I think the crypto stuff attracts a certain libertarian type. I don’t think it’s sustainable long term.
This really only happens when youtube becomes a worse option. The more YouTube becomes a junk site, the more reason to switch and other sites just become the better option. I’m only here because this is now the best option, Reddit has gunked itself full of adverts and has removed the features I used to enjoy in third party apps.
Actually, I think I like the old YouTube where people didn’t really make money from the videos posted. That way there’s more people posting and it doesn’t become a sickening view of the same asshole pouring vinegar into soda or whatever that’s all about. Makes me wanna puke 🤮🤢🤮.
yeah, i fear that this is only going to become even remotely viable if, and only if, the user base at large can figure out how to coordinate communal hosting. Perhaps it’ll be rather slow, too, and/or difficult to use with a mobile device due to datacaps, low availability of storage space, and limited bandwidth…
if we enter a future where most people have a dedicated spare computer rig in their homes or a subscription to a private webserver farm that exists JUST to host peer to peer encrypted blackbox user-driven-content, maybe it might someday become viable.
imagine if purchasing an allotment of webspace became an essential part of one’s online identity every bit as much as having a primary email address for identity verification (as it ALREADY IS, which is crazy enough in itself)
Like, imagine carrying a dedicated mobile device with a 5g data plan, basically just a glorified multi-terabye wireless mobile SSD with a dedicated battery, whose sole purpose is to be part of the cloudhost swarm. It’s just part of your extended personal datasphere now. And hell, you can rent out part of its space to companies or people, even. Bytes of Storage become a secondary currency… I’m not saying I look forward to this, but … I could almost see it happening.
You are literally describing cryptocurrencies in the last paragraph.
Why would it need to be wireless? You can just place it connected to the wall. That’s literally a mining rig. You let companies and people use your processing power (or storage in some cases) for a fee (the mined coin).
I think this may be the perfect description for Web3 tbh.
It also takes much less time and effort to create content for a foum compared to a video platform, that might interfere when trying to build a community from the ground up
Unpopular take: If you’re into YouTube but can’t afford the premium, watching some ads ain’t so bad. I mean, YouTube’s like this treasure trove of awesome stuff, tons of valuable info for free. So catching like 30 seconds of ads here and there seems like a pretty fair trade-off
You know it’s just a matter of time till they gut premium, corporations always peddle real value till they strip mine the fuck out of it for increased profits.
Also I’m not giving google any money because they would literally destroy the internet if given the chance.
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