@nixCraft
How is this saved? With cookies or do they block the IP afterwards? I hope they block the IP and by that YT from public Wifi etc would be quite funny ;-)
@nixCraft the more they want us to watch their ads, the less we'll use their software. its a good time to flood youtube with peertube advertisements i think.
@nixCraft
They are in for a rude awakening, its going to be an endless whack-a-mole game with them always getting the short end of the stick in the long run.....
Whatever they cook up has to run client side and thus can be meddled with.
(Has anyone seen a working anti-adblock? Havent seen any for quite a while ago.)
I think YT wants to join the gang (Twitter, Reddit, and others) in the Slippery Slope.
Soon it will hurt them in the long run. Content-Creators will upload videos to other free platforms while uploading for YT. It's the same video file you need to do more distribution. The biggest loser will be YT.
People are pissed at them. I was reading comments everywhere. They are going with rocket speed toward the same slope where "Uncle Elon" and "Uncle Steve" are.
@parsa@nixCraft
1- use a PipedYoutube Instance if you need to just watch a video
2- If the video is kind of interesting, give the link to PeerTube for making a copy that can be viewed by anyone for free and without being spyied
@nixCraft Everything now has $15 a month subs or ads every 5 minutes. Some stuff is just unwatchable with how many ads are crammed in there, not to mention creator’s own ads they put in their videos.
@nixCraft This is probably a very unpopular opinion: I don't see much wrong with this. YouTube is expensive to operate and they need to make money somehow to stay afloat and pay their creators. If you're not willing to pay for YouTube Premium then ads are the only way to finance it. 🤷 I like having both a free, ad-supported option, and a way to pay directly to remove ads.
I use YouTube so much that I don't mind paying for premium.
@nixCraft I am almost exclusively consuming YouTube through invidious, but they seem to be going after invidious as well. I recently tried to watch something through YouTube directly because it wouldn't run on invidious and the amount of ads was unbearable. If there are no ad-free options any more, I will avoid YouTube as much as possible.
@nixCraft Yesterday freetube still worked for me, but if it's gonna fail at some point, I will not use youtube anymore. It's just I really dislike ads, because they throw me out of my vibes, especially true for me because I live in a surface level democracy, where our "great" leader has infinite money for the 2-bit demagogic ads, and they just instantly make me angry and just want to close youtube immediately.
@nixCraft At least they admit that it is not possible to provide the service without having the financial source to do it. So it comes to the question of a fair price for the service.
If the price is not worth it, other platforms will come.
Imho its also a society problem. Information should be available for all. Which means, that everyone should pay for it according his capabilities until a fair price for the whole thing is reached.
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