That's where things are heading. I wonder what video services will replace it.

Could just make a system to automate the ads like muting(or white noise) them and automatically clicking skip, is not as good but still feels like a small win

The funniest part is they want to watch an ad (trailer) but they aren’t allowed to watch that ad without watching other ads first! Xzibit would be so proud.

Triple penetrated, many YouTube Premium features don't even work properly.

YouTube violates MY terms of service when it abuses my network infrastructure and resources to download data I did not request.

Violate is standard legal language for breaking a contract or agreement

Black screen of death? I got a black monitor earlier while doing some work and listening to YouTube. I thought maybe my device overheated. Is this a thing YouTube is doing?

Interestingly, I am having this problem on Linux. EndeavourOS. It's a rolling release distro, so probably a new "cutting-edge" browser feature broke the ad blockers.

Every Invidious or Piped instance could easily implement IPv6 rotation, the smart-ipv6-rotator is fully FOSS and easy to set up. Invidious and Piped both have official documentation on how to set it up:
https://docs.invidious.io/ipv6-rotator/
https://docs.piped.video/...

Unfortunately, that really doesn't seem to be true. YT is a monopoly, they do what they want. None of my friends use Firefox, despite me telling them that ad blockers still work on it. They could spend 3 minutes switching to Firefox and losing some of the niche features they have on Opera GX or whatever they hell they use, or they could just watch the occasional 5-second ad. They just don't care enough. I imagine most users are more than likely like that.

Google foiled again by the yews!! 😂

I've got a few Patreon shows that host video content on YouTube, but because they're directly linked and not monetized through YouTube they're pretty friendly to visit.

I do need a better way to find streamable music. YouTube Music has been a miserable experience, but it has the largest library short of Spotify, which is also miserable.

...until they block APIs which is also in progress right?

They are now blocking content from playing, on one and loading on the other.

Theres plenty of high quality content on youtube though. You gotta wade through wall to wall youtube cringe to find it, but once you got a list of good subs, that problem disappears. The idea that youtube is solely garbage low effort content is so outdated

Shame about the crypto bs and homophobia though.

Yup. Brave works great on iPhone, too. PiP, no ads, even downloads work fine. And thanks to Airdrop I can watch ad free on TV.

Until yesterday I had a cheap Premium subscription going on but YouTube cancelled it because they found out I don’t live in Asia. Like fuck, it’s not about the money. 5? Maybe 6 or 7? That would have been fine by me. But 20 fucking bucks a month for that? Yeah, nah. Either fix your prices or I will continue to look for workarounds.

I want to pay for the content on youtube and I believe that the creators deserve it as well as I understand that the platform costs money. But the UX is so bad and youtube very obviously does not care at all about their viewers, that I morally just can't justify giving them money for that level of service.

You might want to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q3ZXQZZlcE

I’d pay for it if they didn’t overcharge so much. Their content is provided to them for free, but they charge more than Netflix to distribute it. Fuck that.

I'd pay for it with money, but I am already paying with my data you see.

I'm okay with seeing an acceptable level of advertisement. Content creators have ad reads within their videos which are skippable, and they've resorted to that because YouTube doesn't pay very well. It used to be that you'd get a short ad at the start of every video or two, and maybe another short ad per 7 minutes or so. Now, it's pretty common for every video to have at least 20 seconds of ad before starting and another 10-30 seconds of ad every 3-5 minutes or so. I like watching on my PS5 while doing chores, so I'm subject to all of these ads. I actually have fully abandoned videos halfway in because of ads that were 60 seconds before I would have the option to "skip" the ad.

I pay for enough things in my life that I was okay with the trade-off of the ads on YouTube. Now, it's (no joke) about 5 minutes of ads interrupting a 20 minute video, and there's usually a 2 minute ad read within that 20 minute video, so really 7 minutes of ads per 18 minutes of content. But it's not really 18 minutes of content because there's an intro, an outro, and a "remember to like, comment, subscribe, and smash that bell" bullshit too. It's roughly 2:1 ratio of actual content to ads and fluff. I'm not fucking paying to take it from 2:1 to 3:1 and they can eat my entire asshole for even suggesting such a thing. Maybe instead of trying to hold eyeballs ransom with the choice of either subscription payments or and overabundance of ads, they should charge for uploading videos to their servers. Sound like a terrible idea? Then I'm sure they'll do it within 5 years. Because fuck everybody, that's why.

Use newpipe or freetube and just send the creators you watch most that money. Google can go fuck themselves

Google cornered the video market and killed all competition by mining all of our data and selling it for years.

Now that they are too big to fail they want to turn around and extort us all. The price for premium is NOT reasonable.

This isn't some mom and pop company trying to serve videos. They abused their size and are now abusing it again.

And the fact that there's people like you defending them is a problem. We have to fight the mega corp and the bootlickers in our ranks.

I wouldn't mind paying, if they didn't took away my right to privacy and stopped scraping all of my devices like freaking malware. Even if you don't use any of their services.

As long as they do that, I feel no remorse not paying for their content.

At the same time they are enforcing the ban on adblocks they are creating solutions for sponsor blocks to skip the ads that actually bring some money to youtube creators.

Funny how the paying for media content works, you can pay youtube but not the creator of that content, the creator himself gets next to nothing if the youtube algorithm doesn't favour the content. Not a boring dystopia at all.

You’re minimizing the abuse. Used to be fine with ads when it was 1-2 max but then it got abusive and greedy. Someone who yells at you once or twice may just be angry, upset, or so on. Someone who yells at you constantly is abusive

1. it does not

2. the crypto bro scam browser I will l would now trust less than Chrome after that whole debacle

Edit: oh and the homophobia too, and I think there's one other thing

I was getting a "this video is private, log in to watch it" banner on everything yesterday with Brave. The videos still played but I wonder if it's related to OPs issue.

Streaming data is expensive, but when you’re vertically integrated to the point Google is, it starts to get significantly cheaper. I’ve been paying creators directly through Patreon for literal years now, and I’ve said before I’d be happy to pay for my usage on Google (including a markup), but paying a flat fee and giving a handful of creators a watch a few cents while Google keeps the lion’s share isn’t good enough for me.

It's not my job to fit into a mega corporations business model.

Your words are poopoo