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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers

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YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers

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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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YouTube's cat-and-mouse game against third-party apps only ensures more people will dislike the company
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    -9•1 year ago

    You can fix the problem by just…. Not using YouTube.

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      Name another platform that has anyway near the similar popularity or usability (usability on third party apps)

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        Irrelevant. If I don’t like something, I don’t use it. If I do like it, I don’t complain about it.

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          You can like something and want it to be better. In the lack of actual alternatives the vitriol against YouTube’s anti-user decisions makes a lot of sense. I think you’re just being contrarian.

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            I think the issue is that video content is expensive to make and host

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          You claim to hate society yet you participate in it? Owned /s

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            YouTube isn’t society kiddo.

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              Ooooooo

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              https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-we-should-improve-society-somewhat-comic-the-popular-panel-explained

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          2•1 year ago

          Youtube is one of those things you can’t avoid in practice. So if you don’t like it what do you do? do you just miss out on most existing video content?

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            Yes. If you don’t like it.

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      I’m so addicted to YouTube it’s gonna be a very rough time when I can no longer watch without ads, because I’m sure as hell not watching ads.

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        Simply pay, and you won’t see ads.

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          I stopped paying when they increased the price, for less functionality.

          Still paying membership for a couple of youtubers I wanted to support (that don’t have patreon, or ko-fi, or stuff like that), but gonna keep using adblocker for as long as I can, since YouTube adds are awful.

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          Simply pay, and you won’t see ads.

          Loads of videos have embedded ads.

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