"Experiencing interruptions? Find out why" - Naah I'm fine dude, just take your time.
Oh no! The video is black for a few seconds instead of showing several ads for a minute! Whatever am I going to do???
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.
If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I’ll just leave the platform.
Yep. Then it will be time to finally start exploring peertube or something...
i wish peertube had more/better discovery tools
The problem isnt discovery its content. There isnt much good content on there. You'll find the good stuff pretty quickly.
Oh that's why it says this? Guess I'll block this message too.
I'm watching a 4h video. I can wait 5 seconds for it to load 😂
I’m fine with waiting 10 seconds at the beginning of a video. I wonder how much YouTube would save (by reducing bandwidth, smaller caches, choosing slower storage) if they didn’t have the goal to start the video virtually immediately.
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.
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.
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
Google reported an annual gross profit of $240.3 billion last year.
They can fucking pay for YouTube
I would pay if it was a quality service and not ran by clowns
Also not run by oligarchs
All oligarchs are clowns, but all clowns are not oligarchs
My favourite unexpected bonus from switching to Linux has been a completely ad free youtube experience. Not entirely sure why this magic is happening but I love it.
On windows Firefox + ublock origin is an ad free experience for YouTube. Any chance you picked a browser that has ublock origin added hy default?
They're eventually gonna start banning accounts for this and then requiring login to view YouTube.
I doubt they’ll ever actually do it, just threaten it constantly.
They’d rather have people without accounts, and/or using adblockers keep using the site. If they started actually cracking down, then it would create a significant pool of users who would use some other platform. They’d rather eat the losses of some people not viewing ads then push a significant amount of users to a potential competitor.
Much like how Microsoft hasn’t cracked down on unlicensed windows installs because it would push a significant amount of people to look for an alternative OS.
Dafuq is a scarescreen?
you know those FBI Warnings in front of a LEGALLY (they are removed by pirates on pirated movies) procured Movie? Those are scare screens.
Unlock origin always always always free
hmmm? Sorry I was busy enjoying my favorite creators on invidious with sponsorskip. Not sure what you all guys are talking about. Youtube is so good when you remove Youtube from the equation.
You do you. I like my YT Premium. Many of the creators I watch there simply don't publish anywhere else, and I don't have time for ads, especially if I'm watching on my smart TV.
This used to be the case, but it's a different equation now. Ads used to be one or two per video. Fine, I get there are bills to pay.
Now it's pure greed and pushing us to a subscription for a service they purposely made shitty so we would think exactly what you are. 4-5 ads, with forced ads interrupting the videos, and auto redirects to more ads after the video fonishes. Unskippable multi-minute ads.
And if you're thinking "well then just pay for it", tell that to Netflix, Hulu, and all of the streaming services that were "ad-free" until they decided that actually, pay twice as much or watch ads (even though your paying).
So while I understand you're saying, you're assuming Google will play fair. They won't. They will up the price, they will still force ads, and it will get worse. I'm taking a stand now saying enough is enough. I'm not rewarding them for enshittifying the service.
Check out Nebula, it is paid but there are no ads and they have a decent amount of YouTubers and are adding more regularly.
Also your feed is based on subscriptions not an algorithm.
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