▲ 458 ▼ Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature (thelemmy.club) submitted 7 months ago by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 120 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ygurin@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (5 children) Yeah Google has been "toll-bridging" features into paid-premium since removal of ability to pause with screen off in YouTube. I wouldnt be surprised if corporate greed forces them to remove pausing videos altogether. Not premium can't pause! permalink fedilink source hideshow 10 child comments replies: [–] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 7 months ago I don't care when my only way to watch YouTube it's either: on Firefox with uBlock Origin on ReVanced on SmartTube (for Android TV) by downloading the video through yt-dlp permalink fedilink source parent [–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago This is why I am just going to pay networks of my favorite youtubers directly when YouTube finally gets too bad to use. I'm never paying for RedTube or whatever the fuck porny ass name their premium service has so that Google gets most of my money and Mr beast gets a cut while the people I actually watch get nothing. I pay for Dropout already and that shit is so much better than Netflix and other services. Sure it's low budget but it's still better than the slop all the big companies are shoveling out of their troughs. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago Don't give them ideas permalink fedilink source parent [–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) Then it'll become a premium feature to choose your videos otherwise you'll have to consult a personalised video guide to see when the videos you want to watch will be playing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ygurin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago Pretty much a traditional tv permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago (1 child) corporate greed There's no way YouTube is even remotely profitable even with the massive amounts of ads on the free version.. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago They're almost certainly one of the more profitable Google services or they'd have been cut loose by now. Google serves ads, YouTube is a great platform for them to serve ads, and they don't even have to pay content creators that much, because they serve their own ads. The biggest expense is probably bandwidth and memory, which Google owns enough of to sell off bits they aren't using. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 7 months ago I don't care when my only way to watch YouTube it's either: on Firefox with uBlock Origin on ReVanced on SmartTube (for Android TV) by downloading the video through yt-dlp permalink fedilink source parent
[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago This is why I am just going to pay networks of my favorite youtubers directly when YouTube finally gets too bad to use. I'm never paying for RedTube or whatever the fuck porny ass name their premium service has so that Google gets most of my money and Mr beast gets a cut while the people I actually watch get nothing. I pay for Dropout already and that shit is so much better than Netflix and other services. Sure it's low budget but it's still better than the slop all the big companies are shoveling out of their troughs. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago Don't give them ideas permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) Then it'll become a premium feature to choose your videos otherwise you'll have to consult a personalised video guide to see when the videos you want to watch will be playing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ygurin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago Pretty much a traditional tv permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ygurin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago Pretty much a traditional tv permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago (1 child) corporate greed There's no way YouTube is even remotely profitable even with the massive amounts of ads on the free version.. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago They're almost certainly one of the more profitable Google services or they'd have been cut loose by now. Google serves ads, YouTube is a great platform for them to serve ads, and they don't even have to pay content creators that much, because they serve their own ads. The biggest expense is probably bandwidth and memory, which Google owns enough of to sell off bits they aren't using. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago They're almost certainly one of the more profitable Google services or they'd have been cut loose by now. Google serves ads, YouTube is a great platform for them to serve ads, and they don't even have to pay content creators that much, because they serve their own ads. The biggest expense is probably bandwidth and memory, which Google owns enough of to sell off bits they aren't using. permalink fedilink source parent
