YouTube Premium
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Yeah - rather than make a compelling product [for premium] at an attractive price they instead try and frustrate people into subscribing with purposely obnoxious ad patterns - which is why I won't ever pay for YT (unless there is a massive shift at the company).
There was an article about it recently where they admitted to such behaviour (involving bumper ads, etc.) and having to make a change in the end due to some people ending up with like 13 ads in a 2 minute video or something...
While they can't even make a decent search filtering facility screw paying for premium as well.
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Honesty?
Good one.
You feel free to continue to pay your full price, through honesty, to a multi billion company.
I'll stick with my dishonest, but sensible, course.
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Is that when you take a holiday to get Turkey Teeth.
Soldato
If YouTube is profitable in India for £1.44 per month, why is it not the same price in the UK? It seems like they are just gouging people because they can.
Man of Honour
Of course they are. That's what having a monopoly is for in business. Google is not your friend. The core purpose of Google is to gather as much information as possible on as many people as possible in order to manipulate them for power and profit (or sell the data to other organisations to use for those purposes), but gouging people for as much profit as possible comes a close second (and is part of the reason for their core purpose).
I'd probably pay for Youtube if I didn't have to be logged into a Google account to do so and if it stopped Google spying on me. I'll pay for a product rather than being a product. But in this case it has the opposite effect - it makes you an easier target and even more of a product. I don't have a Google account and I wouldn't use one if I did. Sure, they'll spy on me and manipulate me anyway. But it grates on me to make it so very easy for them to do so to an even greater extent. Also, I'm not willing to give a massive spyware company my phone number and a copy of my passport, which Google now requires from its products.
Caporegime
Population of India 1 billion?
UK 70 million?
Economy of scale
data isn't gonna harvest itself..
I also pay 129 rupees per month.
UK 70 million?
Economy of scale
data isn't gonna harvest itself..I also pay 129 rupees per month.
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can't you either run another browser, or use one with a sand-box, so that google will only see what music you access as opposed to what happens in other tabs.
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youtube premium music quality - do you genuinely get better quality for most videos ? stats for nerds, apparently reports audio code
(eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVe-9VWIcCo shows 251 = 160Kbs for me)
Code | Container | Audio Codec | Audio Bitrate | Channels | Still offered? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
139 | MP4 | AAC (HE v1) | 48 Kbps | Stereo (2) | Rarely, YT Music |
140 | MP4 | AAC (LC) | 128 Kbps | Stereo (2) | Yes, YT Music |
(141) | MP4 | AAC (LC) | 256 Kbps | Stereo (2) | No, YT Music* |
249 | WebM | Opus | (VBR) ~50 Kbps | Stereo (2) | Yes |
250 | WebM | Opus | (VBR) ~70 Kbps | Stereo (2) | Yes |
251 | WebM | Opus | (VBR) <=160 Kbps | Stereo (2) | Yes |
256 | MP4 | AAC (HE v1) | 192 Kbps | Surround (5.1) | Rarely |
258 | MP4 | AAC (LC) | 384 Kbps | Surround (5.1) | Rarely |
327 | MP4 | AAC (LC) | 256 Kbps | Surround (5.1) | ?* |
338 | WebM | Opus | (VBR) ~480 Kbps (?) | Quadraphonic (4) | ?* |
- Surround audio can be found on some demo videos
- YT Music: These formats are offered on Youtube Music. Format 141 is only available to Premium users with High Quality option
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Soldato
So you pay for premium to get rid of ads but then the content creators put in their own ads, such a con.
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Population of India 1 billion?
UK 70 million?
Economy of scale
I also pay 129 rupees per month.
Legend of Zelda, rupees
Caporegime
I have no issue with the creators I follow having in-content paid activity, my premium (even if paying true UK price) makes them nothing compared to what actual ads would have, and I want them to continue to make content.
There is also access to YouTube music. Which some prefer over Spotify.
But yes, some do their sneeky ads but can easily fast forward. Not stopped by an count down timer.
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This is what you need:
It's open source (GPL), community driven, and covers the majority of popular (and not so popular) videos. It can be configured to silently skip/jump the ad/sponsor/drivel sections, and will also work on Invidious instances if you toggle that setting. Easy peasy, and it makes certain channels much more watchable!
Firefox
Chrome(ium)
Soldato
Any guides for this or is it that simple?
yes but will that work on peoples smart tv's, which are the platforms where you can'r run ublockO, and block the basic utube adverts (unlike my PC), it's those tv/OTT(roku..) platforms which drive market for premium.
guess you can get 4K&hdr with premium, but the amount of material is probably limited, and for other videos the quality does not improve,
for audio, similarly, is all of the content available with better bitrates.
True, many videos have chapters that show you the sponsorship segment as well.
Soldato
It instantly skips the sponsor section for you irrespective of length, so you don't have to FF or jump yourself, making it far easier to use when segments can last 2-3 minutes or more or be multiple smaller segments dotted through-out a video.