Dramatic much? Canceling a subscription is ‘the unthinkable’ now? For fuck’s sake.
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable “Do I really need 300 subscriptions?”
Not aiding capitalism by canceling a subscription = suicide
“the unthinkable”
Hyperbole much?
Unthinkable is signing up in the first place
They though the titanic unthinkable until they hit an itheburg.
Incontheivable!
Here I am using firefox and ublock or newpipe, I haven’t seen a youtube ad in years. 🤷
They think delay before every video and “'experiencing interruptions? Find out why” banners are going to make me turn off my ubo. Good luck with that.
I only see ads when I go to a friends house and they have that on the tv app blasting 1min ads every 5minutes.
I was going to comment this. Having super tech illiterate friends is painnnnnnn . they’re so bad with tech.
And revanced for my phone
Revanced has been abandoned by a majority of maintainers who have all moved to Morphe. Would highly recommend
whoa wait what? what happened?
Allegedly, the “developers” of the app behave poorly towards “code contributors” who did large amounts of work for free, leading to those contributors leaving to start Morphe.
Later, ReVanced allegedly copied a lot of Morphe code without attribution, when the Morphe open source licence required attribution, with an alleged screenshot of the ReVanced discord channel showing a developer wanting to use AI to automatically copy Morphe code. The ReVanced subreddit also allegedly bans people who bring up Morphe.
FoRcInG uSeRs To CoNsIdEr ThE uNtHiNkAbLe
Fuck off bootlickers
Lol, piracy, the logical solution.
There isn’t a single device in my home that shows YouTube ads.
I’ll jump through any hoop before I give that shit website money.
Aah, shit website but you still watch it… oh, the irony
Yet you participate in society. Curious.
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“For the first time in three years” is a weird way to phrase regular price increases.
I have a reminder to cancel before the increase. It was, imo, a good deal for no ads, bolstered creator support in YT (Premium views were worth more than free, iirc), and to get YT Music, which I liked more than Spotify.
For $16/mo, I’ll set up ad-free options for YT and I’ll figure something out for music.
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Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn’t solve many of the problems that still exist:
- being shown the same content over and over
- Dislikes hidden
- in-video ads
- Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
- broken search results
- AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
- crypto spam
- Google-connected account using view history to spy on you
etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won’t.
in-video ads
They do actually have an in-built skip for this. It’s not as good as sponsor block though
You can get rid of the actually relevant issues with premium and giving negative reactions to unwanted content. I barely get shown AI stuff.
You can’t though. That was my entire point.
Unsubscribing and installing UBlock Origin is perfectly thinkable. It also gets which side is the “dark side” wrong.
I’d gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.
At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.
But let’s be honest, they’re not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it’s just 5-9’s of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.
at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.
“unthinkable”???
