• @Tenthrow
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    951 year ago

    Google can be counted on to make everything worse at all opportunities.

    • @[email protected]
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      351 year ago

      Corporations in general. Reddit with their API prices, Adobe with their montly subscription for rotating pages in the Adobe Reader, Netflix with their lockdown on account sharing… Capitalism yay!

      • @Tenthrow
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        They got rid of that motto years ago, and it’s been quite a ride ever since.

          • @Tenthrow
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            Really? I just remembering that it was a big deal with they dropped it. Maybe it’s still there but no longer the motto?

    • Em Adespoton
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      41 year ago

      Well, at least we can count on them to cancel this initiative in short order.

    • @[email protected]
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      For Android:

      Newpipe or Tubular (Newpipe X Sponsorblock fork)

      VueTube (still under development, the team is working slow because it’s pretty small, they have a few time to spend on it and they need devs, it’s a complete FOSS alternative to Vanced, and will have most of its features including optional Google log in with interactions)

      If you need to login and have a full YouTube experience: Revancedapp

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          I tried it and I still prefer Newpipe, but it’s cool to have a lot of alternatives for everyone!

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Newpipe is perfect for me, been using it for months, now when I want to watch a video, I don’t wind up watching whatever, I have a more purposeful experience.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Yes, Newpipe works great, I use both because I want to interact with my favorite creators and share my history and lists with the PC so I’m forced to log in, so the best option for that is a patched YouTube app like revanced (I used to use vanced until a few months ago when they definitely killed it).

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      No revanced? I’ve been using it since vanced broke with an older update and it’s been working great for me

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Thank you! Is Invidious going anywhere? I saw something about a DMCA takedown from YouTube.

      • Hellfire103
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        31 year ago

        I’d be surprised if Google completely stamped it out. They’re on Codeberg now, so that’ll make takedowns trickier. It’s also distributed, so taking down the Invidious websites is virtually impossible.

        Also, while Google probably has pretty good lawyers, I’m not sure how well they’ll stand up if they go to court.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          The official reason they gave for the takedown is also false. They claimed that invidious is using the youtube api without permission, which it isn’t.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        This is something I wanted since I have discovered Newpipe. Thank you, it’s very nice to have something like this on desktop

  • archomrade [he/him]
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    701 year ago

    The one thing the Reddit exodus has taught me, is that I’m almost eager for a reason to ditch my social media and either find something new or simply take back that time and do something more fulfilling anyway.

    I’m so much happier not being constantly blasted with advertisements, that now when I have to go back on insta or FB for whatever reason, I can’t stand more than 30 seconds before I nope back off.

    Looking forward to axing YouTube from my life next.

    • @[email protected]
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      I left FB and Instagram about 3 years ago. At first I felt sad because I was “disconnected” from my large network of hundreds of people I know or have met. The truth was the majority of these “friends” weren’t actually participating in my life at all. Those networks for most part were just allowing for some sort of passive consumption of our lives and when I had finally left, it was great. The hour or so I would spend trying to “keep up” with everyone was given back to me and it was refreshing to catch up with friends because we actually get to catch up.

      Recently though, I spun up an instance of a private social network just for my family using a web app called HumHub. There’s about 20 members and we use it just for our small family. No outsiders, no ads, no spam, just us. It takes me back to a time where social media was simple.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      I just watched Wendover’s video on how they built Nebula. Most of the content I watch is on that platform, so I’d be happy to just ditch YouTube if they move forward with this.

    • @[email protected]
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      I just watched Wendover’s video on how they built Nebula. Most of the content I watch is on that platform, so I’d be happy to just ditch YouTube if they move forward with this.

    • @maniajack
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      401 year ago

      And also, are people who are determined not to watch advertising going to be the ones that cave and buy some crap if you can force them to watch it?

      • McBinary
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        Exactly - If anything ever happens to permanently disable my ability to block advertisements, I’ll drop that service cold and never look back.

      • @Tentaclius
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        111 year ago

        I don’t think google cares if you buy stuff or not. They are just selling ads.

        But I agree with overall idea: if the ads become unavoidable, I’ll just stop watching youtube.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          What if… We all got YouTube Premium, is Google then earning more or breakeven, when they cannot sell or display ads? I mean, there are companies paying Google to display there ads, that revenue would be gone.

    • ColonelSanders
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      Companies are going out of their way to ignore the fact that “the easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.” - Gabe Newell

      I consider adblocking to be in the same boat. Piracy/Adblocking only exists because it’s not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. By making the free version even more intrusive ON PURPOSE, they’re not pushing as many people to buy a subscription as they are pushing people to install adblockers. If YouTube only ever showed a quick 10-15 sec ad at the very beginning of a video, I’d be less inclined to go out of my way to find and install an adblocker (and maybe even eventually just buy a subscription) than if they force feed me back to back, 30-second, unskippable ads.

      It’s the same with those stupid fucking commercials that run ALL the time and try and be as annoying as possible. If I find your ad to be annoying and frequent and shoved down my throat all the time, I will vehemently and actively go out of my way to AVOID that product, not be more inclined to buy it.

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      Decreasing the convenience of ad blocking, makes the subscription more convenient in comparison.

      A percentage of people will genuinely sub from this, they don’t exactly lose any bandwidth from those who don’t.

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      It’s been years since I saw an ad on YouTube.

      It’s really annoying and I was even surprised when I got to know they have implemented multiple ads on a single video.

      Last time I saw an ad was when it was a single ad in the beginning of the video.

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      youtube.com##+js(set,yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
      youtube.com##+js(set,Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
      youtube.com##+js(set,ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
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      Here it is in text format so ya’ll don’t have to type it out. I haven’t verified that it works but by the looks of it it just makes the Adblock sensor report a false negative. [edit, fixed some spacings that sneaked it’s way into the filter upon copying it earlier.]

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        The first line has a few extra spaces, here’s it fixed:

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      • @ilex
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        31 year ago

        The realer MVP

  • @KooMSlayer69
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    661 year ago

    Can youtube not try to fuck people over for 5 minutes?

      • Nytelock
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        261 year ago

        Welcome to capitalism

      • Stefen Auris
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        71 year ago

        I agree, the internet needs to go back to its roots. Putting your eggs in one basket is just a bad idea.

        • @[email protected]
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          At some point the ratio of convenience to quality got all out of whack. Most people I know use maybe three different platforms at most and get angered by all of them. My internet experience peaked when I was checking 20 extremely specific forums regularly and using in-game chat 90% of the time (vent/teamspeak were reserved for raid night).

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      As much as I dislike ads, “Company wants to make revenue from its product” is not a prime example of why monopolies are bad.

      • ArchmageAzor
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        221 year ago

        Youtube has done a lot more bad shit than push ads everywhere

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      • ArchmageAzor
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        If a company has no competition, being a monopoly, it’s basically free to do whatever it wants. Youtube controls the video streaming market of the internet. If they choose to not pay content creators, to run 10 ads in a row every 3 minutes, or to ban content creators for saying something their automods think is a bad word, what will you do? Where else will you turn? Odds are there’s nothing for you on Vimeo. So you either make do with how Youtube operates, or you don’t get to watch cat videos, or video essays on WW2, or playthroughs of Super Mario Sunshine, or what have you.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I had as context in mind that they won’t allow you to watch videos without paying for it via subscription or advertisment

          • @[email protected]
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            Bring able to skip 5 seconds into a 14-30 second ad isn’t a huge inconvenience. When doing something AFK the ad ends in a reasonable amount of time so you’re right back to your background music or whatever. I’ve never taken issue with that. I’m not a huge fan of the newer strategy that run two ads in a row, but it’s still tolerable. What I deplore is the occasional infomercial ad that’ll run for anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 hours without intervention. Those are the reason I run an ad blocker on the desktop.

            On mobile there’s fewer options. Running adblock on Firefox works for now, but if that gets neutered I won’t cry. Another option is to install an app that works with the YouTube app to automatically skip ads after five seconds. If youtube takes action against those apps I’ll spend a lot less time on YouTube.

            This harkens to the current reddit situation. I’m only here because I got tired of their incessant “get our app” prompts on mobile and just started looking into getting an app right when the shit hit the fan. Forcing intrusive advertising on users is a great way to alienate them.

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              maybe you missed the part where they are not only trying to get rid of adblockers, but also are trying to change over to at least 30 seconds of unskippable ads

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s definitely not ideal, but since YT has become my primary video media content, and it’s also my music streaming services. The cost has value for my family.

      I am technical enough to get things like revanced installed, or others. Even for our set top boxes.

      The amount of energy truly prevent tracking is endless. For me premium does pay the content creators more for my views and I don’t see/hear any platform ads.

      It’s not ideal, but every other streaming service you sign into is profiling you too.

      Inside my house/Network I do run pihole, and I use brave browser and it’s shield, as well as unlock origin.

      Ideal? No, I’d rather everything be free but that’s not reality

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      Won’t they also be affected? Also I never used one, can you name a few good ones?

  • @[email protected]
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    I am 43 and I remember growing up, people in the early days of the internet were calling people in my age group (late genx/early millenial) a generation that will be “impossible to advertise to.” For me, it’s rang very true. I can’t think of a single time I ever saw an ad for anything and it made me want to spend money on a product or service. But I guess that hasn’t been the norm, or ads would be dead.

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        There are apps like NewPipe that pretend to be a regular browser but show the user an optimized video interface. And no ads of course.

        They’re in a constant arms race with YouTube to figure out where the actual video and the other stuff (comments, video info, related videos etc.) are on the page, and YouTube keeps moving them around on purpose too.

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          I have used new pipe for a while now. I can’t recommend it enough!

      • @[email protected]
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        The other reply encompassed it really well, but essentially scraping is very very difficult to stop while also keeping YouTube videos publicly accessible (If the video and audio are playing on your computer, there isn’t really a foolproof way to stop that from being captured). Whereas using the YouTube API to get videos can be easily stopped by Google.

  • @MonitorZero
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    431 year ago

    YouTube is seriously forgetting it’s role. I liked it better when it was dbz videos to Linkin Park and looney tunes. We use YouTube to not have a premium service then maybe contribute to the creators we like. We do NOT need yet another “streaming service” bill. They’re getting out of hand.

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    401 year ago

    A prediction…

    YouTube: Show them this ad. Browser: Sure. OK they watched it. YouTube: Really? That was too fast. It was a three minute ad! Browser: Oh, right. Well they’ve definitely watched it now. YouTube: You sure? Browser: Totally.

    • @notExactlyI20
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      Something that youtube can do is open the ad on a background tab, muted and with width and lenght as minimum as possible. People don’t want to see that shit, but want the ad revenue, so I guess it’s a win/win situation?

  • @[email protected]
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    371 year ago

    I am constantly on YouTube. I have a stable of creators I follow and watching them has replaced the time I would have spent on other streaming services. It’s how I chill.

    So I signed up for YouTube Premium and watch it on my TV with no ads. I have no complaints. I get full HD videos, streamers get paid, YouTube gets paid, and everyone is happy.

    • skztr
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      If one of your reasons for using YouTube premium is “streamers get paid”, you should probably look into things a bit further.

      The vast majority of YouTube premium revenue goes towards music publishers who, statistically, don’t have any relation to the content you watch, and contribute nothing towards it.

      The content you watch likely still has embedded advertising because YouTube has some of the worst, if not the worst, rates paid to people who actually create the videos on their platform (this means there’s no such thing as “ad free YouTube” without using an ad blocker, even if you pay for premium)

      • @[email protected]
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        I also use YouTube music instead of Spotify or Apple so I am fine with music rights holders getting paid. I haven’t seen any ads on my premium and I have had it for years and use it on my laptop, tvs, and tablets. The only ads I see are the sponsored segments in videos that not even an ad blocker can block because it’s part of the video done by the creator themselves.

        • mochi
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          101 year ago

          check out a Firefox extension called SponsorBlock. It’s updated by users but is pretty current and can be set to skip past self promotion and in video advertising.

        • @[email protected]
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          Sponsor block is pretty good for those. But yeah I’m also a YouTube premium member for similar reasons, also had a Google music sub back in the day that converted over.

        • @givesomefucks
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          Yeah, when Google music shutdown, YouTube Music cost as much as Spotify, and includes YouTube premium. Pretty sure it still does.

          The people who complain about how much premium costs, are probably already paying for another music streaming service.

          In which case, yeah, you’re only using half of what you pay for.

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          Just hate that some browsers in app can’t find my login on android and play the ad rather then running the YouTube app.

      • @[email protected]
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        I mean, is this surprising? Long-form video is actually decently expensive to serve and other platforms have a subscription model.

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        1. That happens whether you’re subscribed or not.
        2. Sort of agreed, not really relevant to the parent comment though. 3+4. You can’t have both “no ads allowed in-video” and “creators are paid a majority share of the money we make serving the video”. YouTube was (and still is if I understand it correctly) barely profitable, and if it is profitable right now I’m sure it is because of the worst kind of data-mining.

        It is way harder to provide an effective platform for content than it is to deliver actual content, especially as effort/content has close to zero effect on vitality/attention/profitability, while the aspects we want in a platform (especially in regards to privacy) are entirely unprofitable. As someone who uses adblock and generally dislikes the corporate aspect of YouTube I at least has to acknowledge that YouTube has to make money somehow, and that in-video sponsors seems like a win-win for everyone involved, especially when you can skip them pretty much effortlessly.

        Normally I wouldn’t even comment this shit, but as we are (hopefully) part of a shift to actual community driven platforms (fediverse in general), I think we have to aggressively discuss how to monetize these platforms enough so that they don’t actively drain the wallets of the people maintaining them, and this is a very relevant aspect of that discussion.

        Hopefully not too ranty, extremely inebriated.

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        1. That happens whether you’re subscribed or not.
        2. Sort of agreed, not really relevant to the parent comment though. 3+4. You can’t have both “no ads allowed in-video” and “creators are paid a majority share of the money we make serving the video”. YouTube was (and still is if I understand it correctly) barely profitable, and if it is profitable right now I’m sure it is because of the worst kind of data-mining.

        It is way harder to provide an effective platform for content than it is to deliver actual content, especially as effort/content has close to zero effect on vitality/attention/profitability, while the aspects we want in a platform (especially in regards to privacy) are entirely unprofitable. As someone who uses adblock and generally dislikes the corporate aspect of YouTube I at least has to acknowledge that YouTube has to make money somehow, and that in-video sponsors seems like a win-win for everyone involved, especially when you can skip them pretty much effortlessly.

        Normally I wouldn’t even comment this shit, but as we are (hopefully) part of a shift to actual community driven platforms (fediverse in general), I think we have to aggressively discuss how to monetize these platforms enough that they don’t actively drain the wallets of the people maintaining them, and this is a very relevant aspect of that discussion.

        Hopefully not too ranty, extremely inebriated.

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        1. That happens whether you’re subscribed or not.
        2. Sort of agreed, not really relevant to the parent comment though. 3+4. You can’t have both “no ads allowed in-video” and “creators are paid a majority share of the money we make serving the video”. YouTube was (and still is if I understand it correctly) barely profitable, and if it is profitable right now I’m sure it is because of the worst kind of data-mining.

        It is way harder to provide an effective platform for content than it is to deliver actual content, especially as effort/content has close to zero effect on vitality/attention/profitability, while the aspects we want in a platform (especially in regards to privacy) are entirely unprofitable. As someone who uses adblock and generally dislikes the corporate aspect of YouTube I at least has to acknowledge that YouTube has to make money somehow, and that in-video sponsors seems like a win-win for everyone involved, especially when you can skip them pretty much effortlessly.

        Normally I wouldn’t even comment this shit, but as we are (hopefully) part of a shift to actual community driven platforms (fediverse in general), I think we have to aggressively discuss how to monetize these platforms enough that they don’t actively drain the wallets of the people maintaining them, and this is a very relevant aspect of that discussion.

        Hopefully not too ranty, extremely inebriated.

      • @[email protected]
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        1. That happens whether you’re subscribed or not.
        2. Sort of agreed, not really relevant to the parent comment though. 3+4. You can’t have both “no ads allowed in-video” and “creators are paid a majority share of the money we make serving the video”. YouTube was (and still is if I understand it correctly) barely profitable, and if it is profitable right now I’m sure it is because of the worst kind of data-mining.

        It is way harder to provide an effective platform for content than it is to deliver actual content, especially as effort/content has close to zero effect on vitality/attention/profitability, while the aspects we want in a platform (especially in regards to privacy) are entirely unprofitable. As someone who uses adblock and generally dislikes the corporate aspect of YouTube I at least has to acknowledge that YouTube has to make money somehow, and that in-video sponsors seems like a win-win for everyone involved, especially when you can skip them pretty much effortlessly.

        Normally I wouldn’t even comment this shit, but as we are (hopefully) part of a shift to actual community driven platforms (fediverse in general), I think we have to aggressively discuss how to monetize these platforms enough that they don’t actively drain the wallets of the people maintaining them, and this is a very relevant aspect of that discussion.

        Hopefully not too ranty, extremely inebriated.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ve blocked their ads for years. I support content creators by buying merchandise and with Patreon.

      After hearing about this, I’ve decided to give YouTube Premium a try. It seems like an easier and more consistent way for me to support creators. I watch YT almost daily, and get a lot of value from it. I hate ads and refuse to watch them, but Premium users don’t see them.

      I wouldn’t blame anyone for walking away from YouTube over this. But for me at least, this was kind of a no-brainer.

      I know Google tracks users and targets us with ads. I’m deep in their ecosystem anyway, and rely on their services for work, hobbies, and managing my data. I am stuck with them, unfortunately.

      I do block what I can (Meta, Microsoft, Amazon) with Pi Hole and browser extensions. But there’s no total escape from an internet footprint, short of dropping off the grid. I’m dependent on Alphabet to live my lifestyle, for better or worse.

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      The biggest pain with premium is how prevalent in video ads are. Not fun to pay and still see ads anyway.

      I wouldn’t mind if they were right at the start or at the end. But they’re always either 30 - 60 seconds in or in the middle of the video and so many of them are over a minute.

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        If we’re lucky, in time (and with enough YouTube premium subscribers) the need for YouTubers to have 3rd party sponsorships will decrease.

      • @[email protected]
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        If we’re lucky, in time (and with enough YouTube premium subscribers) the need for YouTubers to have 3rd party sponsorships will decrease.

        • @K3zi4
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          I know this is really bad. And I know they need to make money somehow. But on precedent I just refuse to pay for YouTube premium, having been there since the beginning. Before adverts started showing, and everyone predicted they’d plague us with ads until charging you to get rid of them.

          Also a part of me refuses to believe Google can’t afford to run YouTube without adverts.

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        If we’re lucky, in time (and with enough YouTube premium subscribers) the need for YouTubers to have 3rd party sponsorships will decrease.

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            Because ad spots don’t fit in well to videos. And they are a pain to negotiate and often (depending on the partner) limit what can be in the videos.

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              Yeah, but come on man, at the end of the day video makers won’t care and why should they. They aren’t exactly making art over there.

              I get that people have to get payed somehow. But without public funding, it is always going to devolve into some kind of shitshow.

              • @[email protected]
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                … that’s why YouTube premium is a thing. Over 50% of the monthly subscription is distributed among the creators you view in a month.

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                  Okay, but I dont want to pay any of them.

                  I realize that this is a catch22, but this is where we are at. I really only want to view footage from creators that are willing to give it to me for free without ads. Youtube provided a technical infrastructure for that for about two decades, and it looks like they can’t anymore. Fine, but it has clearly been proven that we as a society can make this happen, and I will patiently wait for it to be a thing again. Or I will find something else. But I am not paying a monthly subscription.

                  Honestly, if I could pay 800 dollars for lifetime access to YouTube, I probably would. Weird right? Thats like 8 years of YouTube premium all at once. YouTube might even shut down in 8 years. But whatever, its not my job to figure these things out and honestly I’m unbothered by it. At the end of the day, I am confident that intwrnet based media will emerge stronger from this.

                  At the end of the day it is about honesty - are you a small creator reading an ad because that is how you support your business, or are you a large faceless corporation giving me free shit so that I will unknowingly be bound by a EULA that is designed to be impossible to understand, all for the purpose of trying to extract money from me later? Ill take the former, every time.

    • @JeanMiaouss
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      I’m in the same situation, and I agree. I even got the premium lite plan for 7€ which I find really reasonable with the quality of the content and the amount I watch. I’d rather pay YouTube and content creators than Netflix or Disney anyway.

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    If they will actually do that, I’ll pay for a subscription. To Nebula.

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      I actually pay for Nebula already and it has been great so far for me. I use it a lot more than Youtube and you don’t need to sift through a bunch of garbage to find something decent to watch. They just need to add more content creators.

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        What percentage of yt creators are over there? I pay for premium, but yt is literally my primary video media consumption so I get value out of it. I also use yt music as my streaming service.

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          121 year ago

          What percentage of yt creators are over there?

          Of all creators on YT? A tiny fraction. Less than one hundredth of one percent.

          Of the creators that I personally watch? Probably about a quarter to a half. Most of my favourite urbanist channels, excellent history and news channels, lots of amazing media criticism from a variety of angles. And some very fun game shows.

          Nebula isn’t actually trying to be a general competitor to YouTube. It’s curated to be high quality content creators. To a pretty good extent, you can guarantee that if they’re on Nebula, they’re a good creator—maybe not to your personal taste (there are plenty on there that I have no interest in), but at least good in their niche. All their creators are part owners of it (in a meaningful way, not in a “one share out of a company with millions of shares” kind of way), so they only let in creators that they think they can trust.

          And all that, for a price that’s less per year than YouTube Premium is for just 2 months. For me, it’s a no brainer.

        • MouseWithBeer
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          81 year ago

          Not that many sadly and from my understanding you need to be invited by them to join. There is 240 currently if it loaded and counted them correctly for me. They have a list of them here. It works for me because a lot of them make exactly the content I am interested into, but might not work or you or anyone else depending on taste.

          • Square Singer
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            21 year ago

            It would be the same for me. Most of the channels I watch advertise Nebula, unless they advertise Floatplane. With these two I would have >90% of my Youtube watch time covered.