Hey, I was browsing youtube in private mode, and out of nowhere it started looking like this, I really hope this doesn't go through lolol...
(the black square bottom right is probably an ad being blocked.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024
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I've been getting very close to ditching YouTube. This change showed up a few weeks ago for me and pushed me a bit further.
If they succeed in inserting ads into the video stream I'll bail alltogether. I can fit a subscription to Brilliant, Dropout, and several creator Patreons into the cost of a YouTube Red subscription, and I won't have to deal with these attention-optimizing UI changes.
You can use some of the alternatives like Piped in web browser or desktop app called FreeTube
I'm also very close in ditching all Google products. Including search.
i haven't used their search in ages. ddg is good enough and doesn't flood you with ads instead of actual results. still not as good as Google used to be once upon a time, but I'll take 80-90% quality over the garbage that is Google search.
but I'm also considering switching to kagi
DuckDuckGo is a meta-search engine and is mainly depended on results from Bing and Yahoo! actually.
You can get YouTube premium for like three bucks if you VPN into certain countries. Ukraine worked for me.
Yes, let's abuse a country's poor economy so the service providers eventually raise the price in the region as a direct countermeasure and fuck over the real citizens that needed that cheaper regional pricing.
That's a good point but you don't have to be an asshole about it
I think he was very polite, considering.
I'm sorry for my previous tone, it's just that this subject makes me irrationally angry and I acted without forethought. In retrospect I shouldn't have written what I did, I apologize, have a nice day.