• Mark@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I was paying for a whole family (premium). But I will not pay and send money to a fascist state. We’ve cancelled all our us based services.

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    Only thing I’m getring at the moment is waiting up to like 30s until the video starts, I’il take that over an ad that long any day.

  • Robbity@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    Nebula’s getting better and I spend more time there now than on YouTube. Happy that YouTube is working hard to encourage this transition.

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    meh, its still not inconvenient enough to pay 10+ dollars a month. The state of adverts online is so egregious that I would probably sooner stop watching Youtube than pay or put up with ads.

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    4 hours ago

    Dang, thanks. I read the post, thought it wasn’t happening to me, and I just realized that the start of some videos is being throttled. The more ya know 🌈

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    10 hours ago

    Don’t care, still better than the ads.

    I’ll sit for 2 minutes in front of a black screen and it’ll still be better than 45 seconds of ads.

  • oyo@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    They will never be happy with how much money they squeeze out of it. When people are watching videos that are 99% ads and the content is limited to two alternating pixels they will still find a way to further optimize their profit-taking. Nothing is ever good enough for the hyper-capitalist; product managers are a disease.

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    11 hours ago

    Not only that but the bit-rate as of late seems horrendous, 1080 looks more like 720 or lower with artifacts all over the place.

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      10 hours ago

      Yes, some video have a 1080p Premium high nitrate quality option that you need to pay for. It’s just the standard quality, but the free 1080p is now shitty.

      It’s very sad there isn’t anything that can even remotely compare to YouTube at this time. All the content is there, can’t get it elsewhere. At least with Firefox, ublock and SponsorBlock, it’s bearable.

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      10 hours ago

      Oh, did you not pay for YouTube Extra Premium Plus for the enhanced bit rate?

      Bloody peasant…

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        10 hours ago

        And really you’re just paying extra for the original 1080 bitrate. What a fucking scam, like I’d pay for that crap.

  • aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    That’s great! I spend too much time on yt, it’ll break me of my addiction and I’ll do something else besides passive consumption.

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      15 hours ago

      If you press on the “learn more” button, it brings you to a page that ends with “try disabling extensions, such as adblockers”.