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Randalor posted:So basically, the poo poo that Google already knows because I already told them a lot of that stuff when I signed up (or they just check where my IP is from)? It goes a lot further than what you explicitly tell them, but yeah.
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Oct 27, 2023 21:21
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An unironic "Who cares if they get all my data, why should I care?" in 2023 is certainly something to see.
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Oct 27, 2023 21:22
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I view Youtube Premium the exact same way I view all of the rent seeking that Elon is trying to do on Twitter: an idiot (or group of idiots, as the case may be) who suck at business trying to force us to pay for their bad decisions and incompetence. I refuse. I am not an executive at Youtube. Their ability to raise revenue to pay for their infrastructure is 100% not my problem. These oligarchs need to take the advice they're always smugly giving to us: pick themselves up by the bootstraps and F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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Oct 27, 2023 21:29
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I view Youtube Premium the exact same way I view all of the rent seeking that Elon is trying to do on Twitter: an idiot (or group of idiots, as the case may be) who suck at business trying to force us to pay for their bad decisions and incompetence. I refuse. I am not an executive at Youtube. Their ability to raise revenue to pay for their infrastructure is 100% not my problem. These oligarchs need to take the advice they're always smugly giving to us: pick themselves up by the bootstraps and Really it's the culmination of them crushing all competition (not that there was much on streaming video) and becoming the absolute dominant player that now they feel they can start charging a captive audience as there's no where else to go. They're pretty much correct.
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Oct 27, 2023 21:39
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slidebite posted:I know to each their own, but buying premium gives them the best of both worlds.You're paying them a steady stream of cash PLUS they are still leveraging your data. I have ublock but YouTube gave me the “three vids left” message. I tried another ad blocker and that worked for a time but eventually stopped. I have no interest in playing ad whack a mole. I know google sucks but whatcha gonna do. And if it was just a short skippable ad before the video started it would be fine but ads mid video are the worst.
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Oct 27, 2023 21:39
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my main issue with premium is that i hate this crap with an "everything account" across both e-mail and watching cat videos and livestreams, and the system for just logging in separately is too much of a hassle that's what i like about twitch, even though the connection with amazon accounts also causes issues from tiem to time
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Oct 27, 2023 21:49
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kliras posted:my main issue with premium is that i hate this crap with an "everything account" across both e-mail and watching cat videos and livestreams, and the system for just logging in separately is too much of a hassle On that note, is there a way to convince Google to stop making me two-way authenticate with the YouTube app on my phone? I didn’t sign up for that at all, and to my lack of surprise I haven’t found a way to do it through any of Google’s resources.
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Oct 27, 2023 21:50
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:An unironic "Who cares if they get all my data, why should I care?" in 2023 is certainly something to see. Correctly assessing that there is no alternative* is a different thing than "who cares". *if you want to buy me an iphone and a bunch of subscription services that I'd need to fully de-google my life, be my guest!
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Oct 27, 2023 22:04
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Klyith posted:Correctly assessing that there is no alternative* is a different thing than "who cares". You can degoogle a number of phones (even Pixels, ironically) and there are a lot of different service replacements for things like Photos, Calendar, etc. You're not going to replace Youtube obviously but you could use something like Invidious as an alternative frontend to it. It would probably cost more per month and you lose out some big conveniences, but you're not putting all your eggs in one basket in case of being hacked or something like your account being disabled for breaking a TOS.
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Oct 27, 2023 22:25
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Degoogling an android phone sounds extremely limiting. Might as well buy an iPhone
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Oct 27, 2023 22:31
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De-Googled in the Comatorium
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Oct 27, 2023 22:33
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Use Firefox container tabs to make staying logged into multiple Google accounts less poo poo. YouTube (and YT Music) also let you create a channel under your main account which will have a separate view/listen history and keep the benefits of paying for premium. I was wondering what the gently caress happened to my recommendations and playlists when I found that one out.
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Oct 27, 2023 23:01
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Yeah I don't remotely give a gently caress about corporations harving my data to serve me ads or whatever. It makes my life a lot easier.
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Oct 27, 2023 23:12
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Tiny Timbs posted:Yeah I don't remotely give a gently caress about corporations harving my data to serve me ads or whatever. It makes my life a lot easier. lots of people do and are talking about how to stop it. if you don't care then you don't have to do anything. congrats
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Oct 27, 2023 23:51
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I think it's funny that i can block ads.
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Oct 28, 2023 02:05
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I ponied up for Premium because probably 80% of my watch time is on my iPad or iPhone. I don't want to janitor my phone, so sideloading apps or playing cat-and-mouse with Google does not appeal. And I actually find the UX of the official app to be just fine, and they have improved it a few times. I also justify it by from what some YouTubers have said: me watching their videos as a premium subscriber contributes to the monetisation so much more than as an ad-supported watcher.
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Oct 28, 2023 10:46
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Randalor posted:So basically, the poo poo that Google already knows because I already told them a lot of that stuff when I signed up (or they just check where my IP is from)? Google already know what google know, but blocking 3rd party advertising at least prevents supersavetokens4u from profiling and storing all your information in a text file on a Windows XP box.
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Oct 28, 2023 10:54
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I'm just doing what I can to frustrate megacorps and cost them as much money as possible, even if that's peanuts Plus advertising is the worst industry arguably on the scale in terms of human harm as the military industrial complex and I will choose to participate in it as little as possible where I have the personal ability
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Oct 28, 2023 11:08
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Volte posted:I've been using YouTube Premium for a while because I watch it a lot on iPad and I gave up trying to block ads there a long time ago. I get far more value out of it than any other streaming service like Netflix so whatever, I'll cancel those before I cancel YouTube. I wish it had private sessions like Spotify does though for watching videos without affecting my recommendations. That's actually a feature. On iOS go to: "you" (bottom right icon of your account) -->then at the top under your account profile pic, it should be the third bubble "incognito mode" https://imgur.com/a/HfwyS76
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Oct 28, 2023 11:33
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Khablam posted:If you allow ads, you also allow the tracking elements with them that'll follow you around the web and build a profile on you (with a handy google-sanctioned ID verification). Are youtube ads able to do that as well, or just the typical web page ads?
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Oct 28, 2023 12:42
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Randalor posted:Are youtube ads able to do that as well, or just the typical web page ads?   
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Oct 28, 2023 14:20
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the panacea posted:That's actually a feature. On iOS go to: "you" (bottom right icon of your account) -->then at the top under your account profile pic, it should be the third bubble "incognito mode"
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Oct 28, 2023 14:22
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hifi posted:I think it's funny that i can block ads. It is weird when you think about it that you can use the google-owned chrome browser to download an adblocker from the chrome store to block ads on YouTube.
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Oct 28, 2023 14:52
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Is anyone following William osman? Is he OK? His shift from goofy, but ostensibly science/engineering based content to just straight up goofy content has been weird to watch. Nowadays he’s collecting old construction equipment to smash cars in a field, it seems?
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Oct 28, 2023 15:07
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On iOS the “vinegar” safari extension works great so far for YouTube ad blocking. I just use the web instead of their app. Also supports pip!
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Is anyone following William osman? Is he OK? He seemed to have a big break down after he made that video saying that instead of getting an x-ray at a doctors you should just get an x-ray emitter from a junk yard, hook it up to a high voltage power supply, and take pictures using an old camera. A lot of people said how dumb and dangerous that was and he didn't take it very well to the point where he tracked down some commenter and phoned him and had his real name in the video and it was all very odd.
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Oct 28, 2023 18:24
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Beve Stuscemi posted:It is weird when you think about it that you can use the google-owned chrome browser to download an adblocker from the chrome store to block ads on YouTube. Which is why google is planning to make all adblockers in chrome lovely, by getting rid of the ability to block resources and network calls with arbitrary dynamic filters. Whenever they stop delaying the Manifest V2 sunset. I've been kinda speculating that this youtube stuff might be related to that. Like, they're laying a defense against whatever EU regulator comes after them for abusing their Chrome monopoly by saying "No it's not about ads at all, see we already got rid of adblocking on youtube! This is totally for user safety!" Boxturret posted:He seemed to have a big break down after he made that video saying that instead of getting an x-ray at a doctors you should just get an x-ray emitter from a junk yard, hook it up to a high voltage power supply, and take pictures using an old camera. A lot of people said how dumb and dangerous that was and he didn't take it very well to the point where he tracked down some commenter and phoned him and had his real name in the video and it was all very odd. hahahahaha lmao
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Oct 28, 2023 19:38
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priznat posted:On iOS the “vinegar” safari extension works great so far for YouTube ad blocking. I just use the web instead of their app. Also supports pip! Also, you can set it to audio only and have it play outside the app or when the screen is off. It's amazing for saving battery and data. It would be great if it had sponsorblock too.
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Oct 28, 2023 20:51
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Boxturret posted:He seemed to have a big break down after he made that video saying that instead of getting an x-ray at a doctors you should just get an x-ray emitter from a junk yard, hook it up to a high voltage power supply, and take pictures using an old camera. A lot of people said how dumb and dangerous that was and he didn't take it very well to the point where he tracked down some commenter and phoned him and had his real name in the video and it was all very odd. God, YouTube is just the best.
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Oct 28, 2023 20:57
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watching that DIY x-ray video and I'm not even halfway through and 
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Oct 28, 2023 21:08
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Boxturret posted:He seemed to have a big break down after he made that video saying that instead of getting an x-ray at a doctors you should just get an x-ray emitter from a junk yard, hook it up to a high voltage power supply, and take pictures using an old camera. A lot of people said how dumb and dangerous that was and he didn't take it very well to the point where he tracked down some commenter and phoned him and had his real name in the video and it was all very odd. what in the absolute gently caress
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Oct 28, 2023 21:21
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That sounds like it should require a takedown except for the fact that there’s probably a vanishingly small number of people who would actually go through with a diy X-ray machine.
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Oct 28, 2023 21:23
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That huge convention he put on also seemed to push his mental health deep into the red. I don't often watch his content but a few videos about that popped up and it looked like the stress was getting to him.
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Oct 28, 2023 21:27
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Aaronicon posted:That huge convention he put on also seemed to push his mental health deep into the red. I don't often watch his content but a few videos about that popped up and it looked like the stress was getting to him. Sounds like him and reality aren't talking to each other any more.
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Oct 28, 2023 21:32
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He and his wife also just had a baby so yikes
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Oct 28, 2023 21:36
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I checked his channel, and he barely made anything the last year. Is there another place on teh interwebs where he melted down? --edit: Oh, he has a secondary channel. nvm.
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Oct 28, 2023 21:37
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Combat Pretzel posted:I checked his channel, and he barely made anything the last year. Is there another place on teh interwebs where he melted down? He made the X-ray video, made a video attacking people saying how dangerous it was, then made a big crying video about how everyone is so mean to him, them basically went silent for about a year outside of a video about him making some barely functional squibs for that awful mr beast squid game video.
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Oct 28, 2023 21:43
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it's 15 bucks a month for premium why are people acting like it's some human rights violation lol everyone just expected that everything would be "free" (paid for by the fed's infinite free money printer) until inflation started kicking up and they had to shut it off
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wow only $15 a month to be constantly recommended mr beast and linus videos thank you google what a bargain
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