• MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    My favourite unexpected bonus from switching to Linux has been a completely ad free youtube experience. Not entirely sure why this magic is happening but I love it.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Oh no! The video is black for a few seconds instead of showing several ads for a minute! Whatever am I going to do???

      • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Even if they keep the screen black for 30 second to a minute, I’d still gladly wait in silence than be subjected to advertisements.

        If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I’ll just leave the platform. I have no loyalty to YouTube and I’ll sooner dump the platform and move on to other video sites than deal with enshittification and ads.

  • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I actually find the value to be worth YouTube premium. YouTube music works crazy good on my cars wifi and infotainment, and i get 4 users that i can add to my family plan so now me and my wife and kids gets all ad free on any device. And i watch now YouTube that i do Netflix, and netflix cost almost the same for only 1 login.

    Personally i support any company that provides me an option for AD free service. I can’t stand companies that charge me, and show ads.

  • b0ber@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    A big chunk of ad revenue goes to content creators, so you at least support them.

  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Brave Browser and Ublock Origin and I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube in forever. I get some people have a bug up their arse about Brave for whatever reason, but I’m just sayin’ … no ads.

  • OR3X@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The people saying “just pay for premium” don’t seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads. When google purchased it they promised to keep it that way. Then they slowly started with ads. At first they were pretty unobtrusive banners, then a short skippable preroll then multiple preroll then unskippable preroll. The reason I refuse to pay for premium is because Google created this issue and is now selling the solution. I refuse to be a part of that. It has nothing to do with the creators.