“the unthinkable”
Hyperbole much?
Unthinkable is signing up in the first place
…why? The music platform is solid, and far better designed than Spotify. I’ve been a member since it was called ‘Play Music’. And yeah, I’ve also had no ads but I signed up for the music service.
Was about to say the same. Unthinkable, I never even thought of subscribing in the first place!
They’re ’Muricans. You gotta give them some slack. Thinking doesn’t come naturally to them.
Sorry to interrupt the circlejerk, but the author is a Brit
I’ve made up my mind. Don’t confuse me with facts!
Dramatic much? Canceling a subscription is ‘the unthinkable’ now? For fuck’s sake.
Haha yeah. It’s unthinkable that YouTube doesn’t make ANOTHER billion dollars.
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
… Death???
Woah… Morbid much?
The answer is obvious. Going outside.
Avada Kedavra!
The ‘unthinkable’ of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?
The unthinkable? lmao
me: can we have ad free videos with uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock?
google: we have ad free videos at home.
at home: YouTube Premium
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Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won’t you think of the corpos??
Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it’s absurd and bad and all that.
I must be stupid, because I can never tell.
You’re not stupid, you just need to learn done telltale signs. Most the time, for me, it’s post history.
If I’m paying, it will be to nebula. YouTube is toxic.
I like nebula but I kinda miss having comments under the video. The negative comments can be overwhelming but I like seeing if other commenters noticed the same things I did and if the creator has responded to them.
laughs in:
NewPipe
Tubular
PipePipe
FreeTube
SkyTube
You have to frequently do some shenanigans to get things working because shit keeps breaking. I still do it, but it’s honestly annoying AF that i need to tinker with my apps like that all the time.
Shenanigans like, downloading an update? 😱
No, like fiddling with proxies to find a working one…if only it was just updating then I wouldn’t mind.
I’ve never had to do that on all three devices I watch YouTube on.
YouTube wasn’t loading videos on my phone Today so I opened Revanced. It said there was an update available to I clicked the update button. It installed the update and YouTube plays again.
Not exactly rocket science.
I’ve been using freetube for a little over a year, and I have to change something all the time (like every third time i open the app or something) otherwise videos just throw an error and won’t load. Same goes for my laptop (also freetube). Newpipe and revanced are even worse for me and some I never got working.
My PC is just Firefox with uBlock. I don’t remember the last time I had an issue. Maybe last summer?
My phone is Revanced. As I said videos weren’t loading. I went into the manager and it said there was an update available. I clicked Download. It asked if I wanted to install it. I clicked Install. Videos now load perfectly fine on my phone.
I use SmartTube on my Firestick for my TV. I’ve had one issue since I downloaded it last fall. A quick google/reddit search brought up an update a day or two before. Someone had the Downloader number. Open firestick, open Downloader app, put in number, download updated Smarttube, youtube worked perfectly.
Nothing I’ve done has taken more than a couple minutes at most to update if anything went awry. I think in the little over 8 months I’ve been using these I’ve maybe had a grand total of 4 times I had to update something. I’d have spent more time watching an unskippable ad than it took to update my phone’s Revanced this morning.
Revanced took me a little bit to get working on my phone the first time I was trying to get it set up. I watched a youtube tutorial (Ironic I know) how to get it set up and once it was working all I’ve had to do was update the manager from time to time, which I can do in-app.
Ok so we just have starkly dissimilar experiences, unfortunately for me it has been way more hassle than what you have experienced.
FreeTube has been going strong for me.
Now is the time for peertube to shine
Why is everything being done “quietly” lately?
Because its a covering instead of saying underhanded or sneaky or tricking users.
“I didn’t steal, I was just quietly sneaking money from their wallet!”
Announcing price hikes is bad marketing
I’m speaking more of the reporting. It seems like every headline claims something is being done “quietly” now when it was actually announced loud and clear. Take this price hike, for example. I got an email from Google last week telling me the price went up. That wasn’t “quietly”. “Quietly” would be raising the price completely unannounced and hoping no one notices.
The answer is simple: the site that published the article is complete garbage
Unsubscribing and installing UBlock Origin is perfectly thinkable. It also gets which side is the “dark side” wrong.
tell me about it; I’m paying double for revanced now
