Looks like its over for me and youtube. Being told I cant watch because of an ad blocker.

Where is everyone moving to and using instead of youtube? I will just move to the same place.

  • subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world
    1936·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t go anywhere. I spend a lot of time on YouTube and enjoy the service immensely. Also, YouTube Music is my main streaming source. And yeah, I pay for both, every month. It’s worth it to me. YMMV.

        • ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.oneOP
          1811·
          1 year ago

          I run a lemmy server and nobody pays anything to use it. It a public service by me for anyone.

          Just because some company hasnt figured out how to do it doesnt mean something cannot exist for the good of the public run by members of the public.

          Im not interested in conforming to imposed problems personally. Im interested in building resilient systems. That was why we invented technology as humans to begin with. Otherwise whats the point.

          • algorithmae@lemmy.one
            132·
            1 year ago

            Are you really trying to compare a text/link service with ~10k users to a HD video service with millions of users?

          • patient_tech@lemmy.world
            82·
            1 year ago

            Video bandwidth is expensive. Plus YouTube pays the creators too for producing the content. I subscribe to YouTube, and haven’t had a real TV subscription in years. Totally still saving money. In terms of hours per dollar per month, it’s gotta be pennies for me. Plus YouTube music and downloading to my phone to save data is kinda nice too.

        • shootwhatsmyname@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Hopefully most of us understand that. I think for a lot of us it’s privacy/ethical issues with Google

      • Jajcus@kbin.social
        74·
        1 year ago

        You say content creators should not be paid for their work? And Google should provide all those servers and bandwidth for free?

    • arcrust@lemmy.ml
      33·
      1 year ago

      I started paying for Google music when it started because I didn’t like Spotify. Now I’ve been paying for so long it doesn’t make sense to move away. When they implementet YT premium, I was hooked. I haven’t seen an ad in years.

      Also, streaming music and video is also way more data intensive, I wouldn’t expect the random good Samaritan to pay the server costs for me. Yeah ads suck, but I don’t see it as such a crazy thing to pay for not to have. Two decades ago you’d pay for cable and still get ads.

      I don’t approve of Google blocking adblockers because I’m sure it doesn’t hurt their bottom line that much, but I also don’t blame them.