Hey, I was browsing youtube in private mode, and out of nowhere it started looking like this, I really hope this doesn’t go through lolol…

(the black square bottom right is probably an ad being blocked.

  • @recklessengagementEnglish
    40•2 months ago

    I’ve been getting very close to ditching YouTube. This change showed up a few weeks ago for me and pushed me a bit further.

    If they succeed in inserting ads into the video stream I’ll bail alltogether. I can fit a subscription to Brilliant, Dropout, and several creator Patreons into the cost of a YouTube Red subscription, and I won’t have to deal with these attention-optimizing UI changes.

    • melroy
      11•2 months ago

      I’m also very close in ditching all Google products. Including search.

      • @pyreEnglish
        3•2 months ago

        i haven’t used their search in ages. ddg is good enough and doesn’t flood you with ads instead of actual results. still not as good as Google used to be once upon a time, but I’ll take 80-90% quality over the garbage that is Google search.

        but I’m also considering switching to kagi

        • melroy
          1•1 month ago

          DuckDuckGo is a meta-search engine and is mainly depended on results from Bing and Yahoo! actually.

          • melroy
            1•1 month ago

            In fact, not that long ago Bing was down, causing ddg also being unavailable, so that says enough.

          • @pyreEnglish
            1•1 month ago

            i know. what i said stands.

    • @OrfeluhEnglish
      7•2 months ago

      You can use some of the alternatives like Piped in web browser or desktop app called FreeTube

      • melroy
        1•1 month ago

        That is true, but not solving the problem with other searches like the normal web search.

    • Mystic FionnaEnglish
      -12•2 months ago

      You can get YouTube premium for like three bucks if you VPN into certain countries. Ukraine worked for me.

      • CALIGVLAEnglish
        19•2 months ago

        Yes, let’s abuse a country’s poor economy so the service providers eventually raise the price in the region as a direct countermeasure and fuck over the real citizens that needed that cheaper regional pricing.

        • Mystic FionnaEnglish
          3•2 months ago

          That’s a good point but you don’t have to be an asshole about it

          • CALIGVLAEnglish
            8•2 months ago

            I’m sorry for my previous tone, it’s just that this subject makes me irrationally angry and I acted without forethought. In retrospect I shouldn’t have written what I did, I apologize, have a nice day.

            • Mystic FionnaEnglish
              1•1 month ago

              Thank you. The Ukraine server seems to have been removed from service for my vpn anyway