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Ads mostly - it is getting close to impossible to enjoy content on there any more without either blocking them which I dislike doing or paying for premium - which I won't do in principle as they seem to be using manipulative processes i.e. intentionally irritating program of ads followed by promoting premium to get people to pay for it rather than building in features and value for money which might entice people to pay for it... I mean even the filters and search are a half-arsed implementation at best...
Why don't you like blocking them? I uBlock Origin youtube. Your view counts on a video will still generate revenue for the creator anyway as well liking and subscribing grow their reach. sop you are still doing the part, just not having to put up with the super annoying ads and also not having to give YouTube any money directly for removal of said ads.
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You are overpaying, £0.81 for me.
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Because I watch it on the TV. It's replaced my regular TV programming habit.
It also comes with music, so no need for Spotify.
It also comes with music, so no need for Spotify.
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81p... which country is this? I might have to leave India to find this magical deal.
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Argentina.
Works universally across TV, PC, laptop, tablet and mobile without a need to update or mess with anything - TV is an utter PITA to get ublock working and it can be a bit flakey on the tablet. It's a single 5 minute VPN setup and you don't ever need a VPN again.
For £1.40 a month, utterly worth it as a fire and forget option. It's also allowed me to ditch spotify for youtube music and the saving there more than covers the cost of the sub.
Need to find out this 81p country though
EDIT: Just saw post before mine.
Plus it works on locked down work machines as nothing is installed.Works universally across TV, PC, laptop, tablet and mobile without a need to update or mess with anything - TV is an utter PITA to get ublock working and it can be a bit flakey on the tablet. It's a single 5 minute VPN setup and you don't ever need a VPN again.
For £1.40 a month, utterly worth it as a fire and forget option. It's also allowed me to ditch spotify for youtube music and the saving there more than covers the cost of the sub.
Need to find out this 81p country though
EDIT: Just saw post before mine.
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You just point your VPN to Argentina when you sign up.
No. If YT can't play an ad, the creator doesn't get a cut of the revenue.
Linus of LTT got into a Reddit war in January about people pirating ("privateering") his videos, by not paying the "social contract" of running (not necessarily watching) ads. Some tried to claim the moral high ground by buying merch. Lots of less successful channels will show you that they're making nothing, to push their Patreons and other revenues. Few creators with tens of millions of subscribers are as open with their channel metrics.
I'm trying to cut down on content black holes and infinite-scrollers like Youtube. Maybe get into reading more, or tackle the Steam backlog.
Every Monday, I'll tune in to Digital Foundry for a gaming/tech roundup and Weekly Planet for movie/comic book news. The odd WAN show too. No need for breaking news anymore.
I hope you use Invidious, FreeTube and VPNs because Youtube can track your IP and log your viewing habits. Throw in some nail and beauty channels, because they can work out your age, sex, race, etc. from your viewing habits.
Also, your less tech-inclined friends may have shared their contacts with Google for some assistance or calendar app. So they probably have your identity, or a shadow account like Facebook uses for non-members. The good news is they probably don't share that info with other data brokers, as it's more valuable in their hands. But you can be sure apps are slurping up data, wrapping them up them with everything they've got on you, and auctioning those profiles off to the highest bidders.
It's funny. Besides news, I watch a lot of channels that are anti-Youtube, either from a privacy or anti-corporate perspective. Even protests can be commodified, sold and monetised on the platform it's designed to fight.
Even when they advertise Lbry, Odysee and other Youtube competitors, it's just more content feeding the beast.
Works universally across TV, PC, laptop, tablet and mobile without a need to update or mess with anything - TV is an utter PITA to get ublock working and it can be a bit flakey on the tablet. It's a single 5 minute VPN setup and you don't ever need a VPN again.
For £1.40 a month, utterly worth it as a fire and forget option. It's also allowed me to ditch spotify for youtube music and the saving there more than covers the cost of the sub.
Need to find out this 81p country though
EDIT: Just saw post before mine.
THIS, Family version spreads the love to 6 from memory, being old-ish I had discounted YT till about a year ago, now it is the best value thing I pay for by a country mile (using the methods described). Loads of superb content.
Youtube probably doesn't track my viewing habits between sessions because there isn't a simple connection between them. No history, no cookies, no consistent IP, no DOM storage, no consistent location. They probably don't bother because almost all of their targets provide lots of information freely either through ignorance or not caring how much they're spied on and manipulated. If Youtube are spying on me to their usual extent, they're keeping it a secret and not using it at me. Which is possible, I suppose, but I think it's unlikely because the main point of Google's spying is to use that information at an individual level for power and profit.
All true, but it's not enough for me to jack it in completely and accept any and all spying and manipulation of me completely passively without any attempt to mitigate the worst of it.
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True, but there's so much content that "mostly junk" still means "a very large amount of stuff that isn't junk".