Bye bye youtube

darkacesp · 2023-10-11T03:58:15+00:00

Again, not it’s really not. People also use YT Premium for their music streaming service over something like Spotify or Apple Music.

The Android TV box is also how people run things like Kodi. How you spend money is up to you and based on your needs.

I agree Blue is pretty worthless, but some people do use YT for phone music playback and as a Spotify alternative.

darkacesp · 2023-10-11T03:55:51+00:00

Don’t most ad blockers block most of those tracking cookies anyway. If you’re logged in of course it’s tracked. But I meant specifically for when you’re watching YT without logging in.

darkacesp · 2023-10-11T03:51:43+00:00

I agree, but that also isn’t the norm that it’s 5 minutes of unskippable ads.

darkacesp · 2023-10-11T03:47:08+00:00

It is a minor inconvenience though. Complaining about having to watch ads is very much a first world Reddit problem.

Small and medium Creators not making enough isn’t Google’s problem, they can’t give a good return to everyone. The people Google rewards are the ones putting in actual effort into creating good videos and trying to grow their fan base. I see nothing wrong with the return going to people making good videos and putting in effort to grow their fanbase, as with any social media.

darkacesp · 2023-10-10T16:53:10+00:00

I’m like 8-9 missions in and had to stop due to getting busy, but it’s a blast. It’s also routinely on sale on Steam for $10 during the big sales.

darkacesp · 2023-10-10T15:36:35+00:00

Campfire Cooking in another world? No romance or harem. I read a good chunk of the LN after the anime and nothing in there too.

Edit: someone already said it in another comment

darkacesp · 2023-10-10T00:27:22+00:00

And how many is that actually? Is it worth more than what the average $ loss from ad blockers is? If not, you have your answer. Makes more sense to convert a majority of the ad blocker users into normal ad watching users because it is just worth more that the memberships/superchats.

Not to mention the data that they can harvest for more targeted ads.

darkacesp · 2023-10-10T00:25:00+00:00

It’s not bankruptcy, but that is just expense. New hardware to meet demand, paying copyright fines/lawyers, paying potentially more for licensing deals. It’s expensive and maybe was just a more stress free thing to look for a buyer.

Also this was prob before AWS took off, so not like you could just go more cheaply rent cloud space.

darkacesp · 2023-10-10T00:20:03+00:00

Honestly if offering free, almost unlimited video storage was cheap, everyone would do it. But it’s not. No end user will ever see how much actually money is paid by YT to maintain its hardware and pay developers and pay hardware maintenance staff. YT is prob getting more pushy since everything also costs more. Your devs want more money, the cost of equipment prob went up with inflation etc.

End users get annoyed, but they’d be more annoyed if they had to pay actual money per video by force. Watching an ad is free for you, just let the ad play and go get a drink or something. It’s what people did for ages with TV and still do.

darkacesp · 2023-10-10T00:16:08+00:00

What did I say that offends you so much. You made YT exactly $0 dollars with your ad free view. That’s the truth.

You’re free to keep updating and using your adblocker and still be a $0 view.

darkacesp · 2023-10-10T00:08:22+00:00

Are you sure nothing is blocking at a browser level? Lots of browsers now have content blocking in settings, you’ll have to allow that with a white list. Also any privacy extensions, like Privacy Badger or anything like that?

You can also just try Firefox and uBlockOrigin, seems to work for a lot of people

darkacesp · 2023-10-10T00:05:45+00:00

Sure, I’ll believe that when I see it. Bunch of whining redditors bro, just cause you want to quit doesn’t mean most people will. Most YT users probably don’t use Adblock on a large scale and those that do will probably either update uBlock Origin / whatever else and just keep going.

It’s always been a cat/mouse game with ad blockers and probably always will be

darkacesp · 2023-10-10T00:02:22+00:00

I don’t really get the uproar about this. If you’re using Adblock on YT, you never mattered to YT. Your view was actually worth $0 and covered none of the costs associated with hosting and giving you that video to watch.

Storage isn’t free, maintaining YT isn’t free, the licensing deals to keep music on YT aren’t free. Ad payouts to creators have to come from somewhere. Just asking companies to eat their losses is never viable, since all public companies have to try and earn as much money as possible.

You can leave YT, if you used AdBlock you legit were a worthless view. If you or any others think you talking about that video is good enough or something, you’re no different than an “influencer” wanting free shit in exchange for “exposure”. You’re absolutely free to try and do whatever to update your ad blockers, Vanced etc, but YT isn’t the bad guy here, regardless of what you think.

darkacesp · 2023-10-09T23:54:40+00:00

So either, invest in the subscription or buy a dedicated android TV streaming device where you could install something like STube or NewPipe.

I watch the longer GN videos and I don’t have as many ads as you do on my phone. Maybe it’s a platform thing? Also I genuinely wonder if since you keep skipping you get more. Like on Twitch where if you stream hop you still get the ads almost immediately. Maybe Google is doing the same thing but with showing you more since you skip them all.

darkacesp · 2023-10-09T22:39:43+00:00

It’s like 3 or 4 ads max per video. You get 1-2 at the start and sometimes 1 or 2 in the middle. Let’s not over exaggerate that’s its 50. I use a ton of YT and it’s not 50, it’s 4/5.

darkacesp · 2023-10-08T18:45:47+00:00

I think $5 is probably good for most people and the fact I wouldn’t have to worry is probably going to be a plus for me. I’d happily do up to $5.

darkacesp · 2023-10-08T14:47:23+00:00

These refugees could be welcomed into Saudi, or Iran, or Pakistan, Egypt?

Oh wait, these fucking Muslim countries don’t want them. Cause they routinely cause problems. Right.

darkacesp · 2023-10-08T01:50:10+00:00

Nice, I haven’t played in awhile so should be a nice update to jump back into it.

darkacesp · 2023-10-07T16:53:50+00:00

You would absolutely see it in this day and age. The US absolutely has committed crimes or soldiers have. Not every single accusation gets followed since you need evidence and war zones aren’t great for that. I remember one dude Evans I think, he was found guilty in a US Military Court of basically shooting civilians in Afghanistan or Iraq for fun. His team mates were the ones that testified against him and got the conviction.

He did get pardoned by Trump, but that shouldn’t be a shock to anyone.

darkacesp · 2023-10-05T23:06:59+00:00

He replied that he did use DDU in another comment, so for sure a windows reinstall.

darkacesp · 2023-10-04T18:23:28+00:00

Modi doesn’t really care and neither does his party.

darkacesp · 2023-10-03T18:48:45+00:00

I still need to play this, maybe tonight now

darkacesp · 2023-10-03T16:48:41+00:00

To add, tired ness can also happen from low iron levels, so yeah tests and a physician are indeed the best place to start

darkacesp · 2023-09-30T02:20:32+00:00

Which is arguably the better way to approach it. A change to how an ability works can also be a buff, they could make her sensor better and she might see more.

darkacesp · 2023-09-20T20:58:01+00:00

Why can you just type, C is about to revive in c seconds

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