Never given YouTube a dime and never will
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Revanced on mobile uBlock on firefox
I just do ublock on Firefox. do I need revanced?
I just use Firefox mobile with ublock to watch YouTube on mobile
ReVanced just allows you to ad block and sponsor skip via the YouTube app on mobile
if a wanna just use an app, revanced is awesome
Brave browser also works on mobile, including playing when another app is open or the screen is locked.
can donall that with revanced and also block shorts
Every single youtube channel needs to start seeding torrents of their videos, and posting those links to other platforms (here, mastodon, etc).
Youtube / google could be defeated collectively if creators were to consistently do this, and interested people had the ability to help seed videos.
I’m just so tired of the algorhythms. It’s like being in a cage mentally.
I’m gonna pay you $0 to fuck off (with ublock)
“Perpetrators offer a service that will not be put into effect, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket.”
The very definition of racketeering.
They call it a double-sided economy.
I call it “let’s fuck everyone.”
We could just ban advertising.
Like Cuba!
I’m for it.
Any form of advertising aside from maybe a press release to announce a new product/service, and also any form of commissioned sales.
Storing and serving videos is expensive, they have to pay for it somehow. Either you pay directly or someone else pays for you (through an Ad). I don’t see why this is inherently a problem.
I can see arguments on if the specifics are a problem with how they’re going about it, but the fundamentals make sense.
That’s basically google’s main business. Their business is not in web search, video platform, mobile OS, email or AI, it’s ad. People forget Google is an ad company, that uses any tool available to give you ad. If it’s free and not open source, you are the product. Either to sell your attention and availability to companies through ads, or to use your data to do profiling, build a more vicious ad platform and sell your data on the side.
I don’t pay anything. Just use newpipe/ublock/smarttube
Revanced and Tubular, for those who want more flavours.
Why is it a random picture of Will Ferrell though? Why are recent memes like this?
Its much better to pay YouTube so the YouTubers get money based on what the audience wants, and not what the Advertisers want from Youtube.
Sounds like you’re describing Nebula
Nebula sounds great until you use it… At least on Android, it buffers randomly for no reason, doesn’t fallback onto audio-only if your screen is off, crashes, etc… it’s just not very nice to use
Nebula does not bring an audience like YouTube can, so its not a solution yet.
I think YouTube should have a free tier with limited watch minutes of low quality, not an advertising tier.
The perfect crime.
Add to this that companies would prefer showing their ads to paying customers (who have some money to spend), not the free tier plebs
