• AcidOctopus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Two days ago I noticed when watching through the app on my phone that I could no longer just skip ads, and the trick of reporting them to skip didn’t work anymore either. I effectively had to just sit and wait.

    That same day I got NewPipe, imported my subscriptions, and honestly even if this is just a phased trial or something, I won’t be going back to the standard YT app.

    Creators make pennies from ad revenue. If I want to support them, I’ll make a donation or subscribe to their Patreon or something.

    I won’t just sit and suffer a slew of ads while my data is harvested under the false pretense that it’s all to support the creators.

    • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The problem is that YouTube infrastructure is ridiculously expensive. Streaming 4K videos is not a joke. Creators won’t create crap without YouTube. Sadly all other platforms have died. Again, because running such service is ridicolously expensive.

  • Privacy Advocate@monero.townBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    That’s did news. Perhaps after mastodon grow massive thanks to Elon, and Lemmy grow thanks to reddit, we see peertube get his time to shine thanks to Google… #fuckupyourcompanyFAST

    • valveman@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’d love to see PeerTube grow just like these platforms, but I think it’s a lot more complicated to get people to use it than mastodon/lemmy.

      Twitter/Reddit weren’t used as a major income source like YouTube and Instagram (I am saying this based on famous people in my country, I don’t know how it goes on other places), and so are easier to replace. The people posting and discussing topics don’t do that for the money, they do because they like it.

      YT and its monetization system made possible for people to make a living from the content they produce, and many wouldn’t like or simply couldn’t sacrifice this income source just to go to a more ethical and private platform like PeerTube.

      • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Another thing to add to that, computer text is amazingly dense. An audio file of me saying just the first word takes up more bytes than this whole comment. Each english ascii charicter is a byte, each non-english char is 1 to 3 4 bytes.

        “another” as wav file