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Gotta give it to them. They are extremely innovative in coming up with ways of enshitifying stuff.
Ahh classic, punishing paying costumers while pirates don't have to deal with any of this shit. I guess the beatings will continue until profits increase!
punishing paying costumers
Time to dress up as a pirate I guess.
I have to hand it to them, they are really good at finding new, innovative ways to make the platform worse.
Go on vacation? Believe it or not, banned.
Living in a dormitory? Belive it or not, also banned.
Google really seems to want to disincentivize people paying for YouTube Premium rather than just downloading an ad blocker.
Meanwhile on Steam my "family" consists of 3 adults with different addresses, last names, and credit cards, who have had accounts for decades and never lived at the same place.
We have full access to each other's library.
Gabe Newell is 62 years old. Gonna enjoy this gravy train while we can...
My understanding is that gaben has already put an action plan in place for when the company moves on from his leadership.
From what I've heard of it, the people in line behind Gabe will be upholding the same values.
We should have at least another ~40 years or more of this before sometimes entitled brat inherits the company and sells it off to a foreign interest.
With all that being said: long live gaben.
I absolutely hate this stuff. My family doesn't live in the same house, but it doesn't mean we are not a family. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law just message us for the passwords when they want to stream something. None of us pay for youtube premium and it looks like I won't be.
"There aren't enough seeds for these AI training data torrents we've been downloading. Anybody got any ideas?"
Youtube can suck a peener. I will pirate whole channels if they keep fuckin' up.
I'm on my brother's premium. I told myself if my brother stopped wanting to pay for it I'd pay for it myself because I hate ads that much.
On the other hand, if Youtube itself takes it away from me I'm going to just stop watching Youtube.
Revance if you're on android man. I mean I pay for premium but I still use it to patch the app at least.
On desktop, check out VacuumTube which is app that acts as a wrapper for YouTube Leanback (tv/console version) and has ad blocking built in.
For those select few that have an iPhone
You have a few options:
I know iPhones are hated here, but I saw the android will stop sideloading coming from a mile away. At least here in the eu apple can suck one and I can still sideload whatever I want
I just use Brave on iOS. It works fine for YouTube.
Firefox + ublock origin still works to block all YouTube ads
Invidious is a frontend for YouTube that blocks all their trackers and ads
PeerTube is an alternative community ran platform to replace YouTube in the future
I guess we going back to blocking ads
i never stopped, fuck these vultures - idc how many fake ass american dream-pilled carrots they wave in our faces. always fuck them.
Fuck GOOG for normalizing surveillance capitalism
Fuck YouTube in particular for making it basically impossible to usefully host an Invidious proxy any more and for their algorithmic manipulation
PeerTube is the Way
As someone with divorced parents this invalidates what I call a "family". Same to you... Netflix
God forbid you have a parent who's living away from home for work purposes who's using that subscription
Yeah and you are also already paying for a set number of people that can use the account so why would it make a difference where they live? My brother is still my family even if we don't live in the same state. They didn't call it a household plan
