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[–] OR3X@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

The people saying "just pay for premium" don't seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads. When google purchased it they promised to keep it that way. Then they slowly started with ads. At first they were pretty unobtrusive banners, then a short skippable preroll then multiple preroll then unskippable preroll. The reason I refuse to pay for premium is because Google created this issue and is now selling the solution. I refuse to be a part of that. It has nothing to do with the creators.

[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The cost of hosting YouTube itself doesn't pay for itself unfortunately. They could get away with it back then because the internet itself wasn't that big. Therefore, we need to KICK THE NORMIES OUT OF OUR INTERNET. WE WERE HERE FIRST, REEEEEE

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Google reported an annual gross profit of $240.3 billion last year.

They can fucking pay for YouTube

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's even worse, their net was $132 billion

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOGL/alphabet/net-income

So even after expenses, the profit of alphabet group was obscene.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's even worse, they laid off approximately 12,000 employees in 2024 alone.

So even after everything, the profit of alphabet group was obscene.

[–] Pman@lemmy.org 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

ReVanced and Grayjay do the same thing but for free and are open source so long as Google keeps trying to engineer enshitification the proud people of the open source community will engineer a solution.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

I would totally pay for youtube if it was even remotely decently priced.

You can get multiple concurrents on disney+, Hulu or Netflix with blockbuster content for the same price as youtube's slop filled premium family.

Seriously, the service is worth maybe $9 a month. I don't want their music, i won't use it, the quality is crap.

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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

With the glorious return of Tom Scott, I finally signed up to Nebula yesterday, and am pleasantly surprised at how many of my YT regulars are already on there. £30 for a year, no ads, and an Apple TV app.

Which is £30 more than I paid YouTube, because the family plan is a ridiculous amount of money.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 197 points 3 days ago (9 children)

"Experiencing interruptions? Find out why" - Naah I'm fine dude, just take your time.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 146 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh no! The video is black for a few seconds instead of showing several ads for a minute! Whatever am I going to do???

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 100 points 3 days ago (23 children)

Even if they keep the screen black for 30 second to a minute, I'd still gladly wait in silence than be subjected to advertisements.

If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I'll just leave the platform. I have no loyalty to YouTube and I'll sooner dump the platform and move on to other video sites than deal with enshittification and ads.

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[–] arcine@jlai.lu 14 points 2 days ago

I'm watching a 4h video. I can wait 5 seconds for it to load 😂

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 3 days ago

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 68 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I’ll never pay for YouTube ever.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

I was happy to pay for YT Premium when there was a loophole so you could sign up from a far cheaper country. I paid about £6 a month for the family plan, purely so I could watch on Apple TV without having to tolerate adverts.

Then they closed the loophole, shitcanned our premium, and demanded £20 for the same experience. We had Netflix at the time, which was cheaper. So I made a little app as a frontend for yt-dlp, and downloaded what I wanted to watch into my Jellyfin server.

Fuck Google.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 26 points 3 days ago

The best part is that Youtube ad revenue is low enough that everyone who can is doing their own sponsor segments, so paying for Youtube to remove their ads doesn't remove a lot of the ads. The only way to an ad-free experience is adblock+sponsorblock.

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[–] pewpew@feddit.it 45 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I would pay if it was a quality service and not ran by clowns

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[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

ahem VPN Albania. Sorted.

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[–] FreeAlchemist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I pay for it, and get YouTube Music with it. I think it's worth it, and in the country I'm currently living, it's inexpensive (~US$5 a month) 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Love how you get downvoted for your own personal preference. This place is wild.

[–] FreeAlchemist@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Just like Reddit 🤮

[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dissenting opinions aren't allowed here, obvs

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Have all the opinions you want just fucking voice them and don’t downvote shit just because it’s not your preference. Or do I’m not your mum.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

So is the scare screen when the UI flicker's and I get a pop up saying "why you experiencing interruptions"?. I use brave browser

I found that logging out solves it

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