The way you say no is by not visiting the site.
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You don't get to say "No" to YouTube, Microsoft, or the thousands of websites that ask to you to give them your email. There's only a "Maybe later".
I fuuuhuhuhucking hate this condescending, pestering dark pattern that apparently every single designer on the planet is required to use
$5 a month and you can share with 5 other users. That’s 90c per person. Why would anyone not have YouTube premium?
Because it’s £15 in the uk ?
They speak of sharing with others, so they're talking about the family plan, so it's actually £20 in the UK.
Because I’m not giving Alphabet any information about me. It’s also why I don’t create a YouTube account and use browsers with common fingerprints.
Trying to avoid fingerprinting often results in easier fingerprinting.
Your browser might have a common fingerprint, but other points of configuration (screen size, window size, webrtc, etc) belie those.
Usually it just gets you put in the "People who don't like ads" advertising bin. They have specific ways to try to target us.
Relevant Bill Hicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXi-9kA4ERM&t=75s
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now, too.
"Oh you know what Bill's doing? He's going for that 'anti-marketing dollar.' That's a good market, he's very smart."
ther points of configuration (screen size, window size, webrtc, etc) belie those.
Those are also part of the fingerprinting that I’m talking about, and browsers like Tor and Mullvad take some or all of them into account.
Because I can get the same results + more for free
By not paying the content creators for the content you consume.
Yeah, that's how YouTube works: you don't pay for individual videos
If someone wants to go that route for their content then there are sites for that
When did I say you pay for individual videos? You pay for access to those videos by watching ads or paying for premium.
If someone wants to watch videos without dealing with ads or payments, there are sites for that, too. Why aren't you going to those sites, instead?
It is not about money. Google created a problem and then asked money to solve it. If I were a billionaire I still wouldn't paid a single penny.
They created the problem of creators needing to be paid without using ads?
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first and foremost you're paying for a worse experience than just installing an adblocker.
Paying for convenience isn't the same as paying to not be inconvenienced.
I pay for Premium for a few different reasons:
- I don't need to even think about fighting with ad block blockers.
- I also get YouTube Music, so I no longer need to pay for Spotify.
- Premium views pay creators more than regular views.
For me it’s a way to help support content creators, along with donations/merch, although admittedly not having to even try to block the ads is a nice bonus.
I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a YouTube fan, and it will be something I continue to evaluate.
There is clearly a value proposition or no one would pay for it. I personally don't like to reward any company using the pay to not be inconvenienced model
A lot of people would rather fight adblockers (idk, literally never been an issue for me), use xManager (oh right spotify is free) , Pay creators you like through patreon (or buy their shitty amazon links or merch or whatever)
Premium is just rewarding youtube for making their platform worse in order to sell premium and fuck that noise.
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Youtube premium gives you a higher bitrate option as well.
I think it's only for lower resolutions (other than 4k) but if the video was uploaded with an absurdly high bitrate you can see a slightly less destroyed version.
Where are you at where it's $5 a month for the family plan? In the US it's $15 for the single user, or $23 for the family plan.
South Africa
I pay ₴150 (Ukrainian hryvnia) for a family plan of 6, which is currently roughly $3.60 (after the currency tanked due to war). *hide the pain dab*
That's interesting, here in Poland you pay ~$12 for the family plan.
I didn't know it was that expensive in US. That sucks, man.
Because it’s $15 in the us? lol
It's £20 ($26.33) per month here. You are either lying or are in an exceptionally cheap country.
I can think only for one legitimate reason:
- Google bought out YouTube and operated it at loss for most of its life, effectively making it a monopoly in the process, and only started to earn money on it when there was no way any other alternative would come up and endanger it.
If you ignore this, YouTube Premium is a pretty good offer. And I personally like the fact that I support content creators, without the need of watching ads that are nothing more than cancer for society.
That said, I would still prefer YouTube to return to its roots and separate from Google, since it's pretty much possible for it to stand on its own right now, I guess.
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Uhm, that' s just capitalism in a nutshell.
Everything is just routing around people telling you "no."
Government regulation is literally the epitome of being told "no" and they spend all the money in the fucking world to force it into a "yes."
I mean, these people are so far up their own asses, I've seen ad industry people say seriously that people avoiding ads is breaking a contract. The genuine attitude that if they paid for the ad, in real life or online, that we owe them our eyes on it because they spent money on it. They're so far out of touch that they can't even face small risk.
Is it really a shock that a lot of people in corporate America are actual fucking rapists?
Gates, Musk, Trump, McMahon, I could go on... Plenty of these guys are well documented as not being able to take "no" for an answer, even if there's no evidence they raped anyone (Gates, for example).
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Unlock origin + Firefox! The harassment stops. I'd rather donate to the unlock team monthly instead of paying google for a solution to a problem they created.
Pi-Hole + VPN and you can stop mobile ads as well. (You connect your phone to your VPN, whose traffic passed through your Pi-Hole)
Ublock Origin also works on Firefox mobile for Android, but that only works inside the browser.
You need the Pi-Hole network-level blocking to block ads in apps.
You also need to add SponsorBlock to skip in-video advertisements.
I don't know, most creators I watch put a creative spin on those, and it's fun to watch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FYI, SponsorBlock isn't just for skipping sponsored segments. SB gives you granular control over the sorts of sections you can skip, and it only auto-skips sponsors by default. However:
- There are several categories of section, including intro animation/intermission ("an interval without actual content"), preview (i.e. where the information already exists later in the video), sponsor (a segment made in return for payment from a third party), unpaid/self-promotion (e.g. "buy my merch"), interaction reminder (e.g. "remember to like and subscribe"), and endcards/credits. (There's also "filler tangent/jokes", but I haven't tried this one.)
- For each of these categories, you can choose to disable altogether, show in the seek bar, prompt to manually skip, or auto skip.
So even if you would never want to skip a sponsored segment in your life, the extension still saves a ton of time if you have no/limited interest in watching even just one of the above-listed categories.
I see, thanks for a thorough explanation! Didn't know it was this advanced.
Absolutely! And what I ran down is just the extent of the features I personally interact with; there are a fair few more, including one that aims to combat clickbait by changing clickbaity titles.
yeah, surprised me too when i first got it. it's pretty much a must for me now
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I got me some new devices recently. Researching and adding privacy/security add ons to Firefox was surprisingly enjoyable.
The idea that I have some measure of control over what I experience - and what I give in return - is novel to me.
The -10 or so extensions work well enough. It's still the internet, but it's an earlier version. Better than what currently exists.
Actually YouTube kinda built in the feature lol. It detects sections of the video most people skip and gives you a button to skip it as well. All right inside the YouTube app.
Yes they are. But no one who can do anything about it is doing anything about it.
No means no but ask me later means ask me later. You never said no. Source: the option doesn't exist
Use inspect element to change the button from "ask me later" to "no" and then click it
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Very few, if any tech companies care about consent.
As Louis Rossman says, they have a rapist mentality.
Sorry man I don't make the rules
Would you like to review our app?: Yes or Not Now.
If an open source app asks me to do so, I usually give it a five star review. It's the least I can do to support them and make them visible on Google Play.
Maybe Later
I always say yes then give one star and complain about being asked to review it
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Their full screen popups when I first open the app have started to load the subscribe button a second before anything else on screen. I keep catching myself about tap it out of pure reflex and I think they doing it on purpose.
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