The more Google keeps going down this path as they inevitably always would, the more viscerally I will fight against it.
Do they have a way to cut off FreeTube? I just started using it recently.
Can’t possibly make it worse than shoving ads from hate groups. On my computer, I use Firefox with adblock, but on my phone and tablet I had been using the YouTube app until a few days ago. Google decided to show me a PragerU ad on mobile, so I decided to switch to Firefox mobile to watch YouTube. And the app either moved or removed the ‘don’t show this ad’ selection.
Check out Sponsor Block extension, if you aren’t using it. It’s really cool
Yeah recently starting using this and it’s excellent, no more manually trying to skip over yet another nordvpn sponsor monologue
Same I no longer use the YouTube app in my telphone
Newpipe is pretty good, you can get it through the f droid store
If you’re using android you might want to check out YouTube ReVanced.
If you log in, know that Google knows you’re using MicroG amd has the capacity to ban your account.
Not heard of any bans yet, but I’m probably close to ditching revanced soon because this is my primary email address and Google is getting more and more aggressive
Look in to switching to a privacy respecting email. It’s not for everyone, but i am very happy with the Proton suite of apps.
I might do that, I made this email when I was 13 and didn’t know much about the digital world
I’d advise against Proton - they’re not good at actually respecting privacy and require a premium subscription to access your email over SMTP (making it much harder to switch away and locking you into their client).
Email isn’t private. They don’t scan your email for ads which is about all you can ask for
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They strip all the tracking from the emails. I’ll unsubscribe from ads, or turn off compromised addresses, but them not scanning my emails is a plus.
How is it not private?
Email as a protocol is not private. It wasn’t designed to be.
Please expound on your thoughts. I happen to be a paid subscriber, cause I want to support them and I appriciate the extra features I get. So the issues with the free accounts arent a problem for me, but my friends who use the free account don’t seem to have any complaints.
I’ve been using microg for ages both for voiced before it got shutdown by Google and for revanced
Nothing has happened to my account
Yes, I said that, but there’s still the possibility. It’s explicitly against their terms of service and when you log into an account specifically to break their terms of service, they reserve the right to tell you to go fuck yourself
Just because they haven’t yet doesn’t mean they won’t. We’re entering a new era of enshitification
Even Walmart lets shoplifters return to their stores after like three years. Think about that, if you owned a shop, what would mean to welcome back as a customer someone who previously stole from you?
Not that blocking ads is stealing, that they need us a lot more than we need them. Can build the nicest, fanciest store around with all the best things for sale, doesn’t mean shit if nobody shops there.
If the experience gets any worse, I just won’t watch YouTube videos. I already watch way less than I used to when it was a cool video hosting platform, before it started enshitifying.
I think what you have in mind is YouTube Vanced. ReVanced doesn’t use the MicroG Suite.
Fennec is Firefox for Android and it even supports uBlock, Dark Reader and others.
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What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do? Are they afraid of pushing youtube down the cliff?
I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular
Youtube drove me away when they started autoplaying misogynistic and alt right nonsense.
It’s not the first time I stopped paying for a service that use to be good. If it effects me I’ll drop the service and stop using the platform altogether.
Poor YouTube only brought in 29 billion dollars in revenue for 2022. They are 11% of Googles revenue.
Now granted they are seeing some slowdown in revenue growth, you know shareholders hate that. So maybe they are trying to create some revenue growth again by making more users pay.
Legit curious: How much were their expenses though? 29 billion in revenue is a lot, but if it costs more than that to run, then it’s not profitable.
I wasn’t able to find YouTube expenses or a number for profit, but since they are a public company it should be in their 10-K and Annual Report.
If it costs more than that to run it they are doing something wrong.
Let’s not forget the unmentioned income thanks to gathering all that user data.
The real value of Youtube (and social medias in general) is not the raw revenue they generate.
It’s being able to be able to predict what will trend in advance to sell ads to anyone, anywhere. Which is proven by their 200+ billions in revenue from ads from all services.
It’s extremely likely that in an alternate universe where Google doesn’t own YouTube, their profit today is lower than what they currently have.
But like you said, poor YouTube is not making money explicitly on its own so they’ll use it to justify any cost increase attempt when they already know what the real money maker is.
I’ll just start downloading the YouTube videos I wanna watch. Maybe even have it on my Plex server.
so little people use adblockers already, the few sheckles they’d get form those willing to turn them off, is that really worth it?
Or is it about power? its about power isnt it
@TangledHyphae @technology
Then, use a program that is a different YouTube Front End.On Android phones, you can download NewPipe or LibreTube from the F-Droid store. These will allow you to subscribe to channels and to watch without ads.
You can use Invidious instances or you can setup your own to watch through a website.
Invidious Instances: https://docs.invidious.io/instances
Invidious GitHub Code: https://github.com/iv-org/invidiousBecause YouTube does not pay most creators enough to live on, please support your favorite YouTubers using Patreon, Locals, or wherever.
I’ll just take a piss break when an ad comes on, then
I don’t know about you, but I’m definitely not hydrated enough to take a piss break every five minutes!
Well, it’ll also make my viewing experience worse if I do so…
it’s all fun and games until youtube builds a wall for unregistered users… ggwp
