• ygurin@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yeah Google has been “toll-bridging” features into paid-premium since removal of ability to pause with screen off in YouTube.

    I wouldnt be surprised if corporate greed forces them to remove pausing videos altogether. Not premium can’t pause!

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Then it’ll become a premium feature to choose your videos otherwise you’ll have to consult a personalised video guide to see when the videos you want to watch will be playing.

    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      corporate greed

      There’s no way YouTube is even remotely profitable even with the massive amounts of ads on the free version…

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        24 hours ago

        They’re almost certainly one of the more profitable Google services or they’d have been cut loose by now.

        Google serves ads, YouTube is a great platform for them to serve ads, and they don’t even have to pay content creators that much, because they serve their own ads. The biggest expense is probably bandwidth and memory, which Google owns enough of to sell off bits they aren’t using.

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      1 day ago

      This is why I am just going to pay networks of my favorite youtubers directly when YouTube finally gets too bad to use. I’m never paying for RedTube or whatever the fuck porny ass name their premium service has so that Google gets most of my money and Mr beast gets a cut while the people I actually watch get nothing. I pay for Dropout already and that shit is so much better than Netflix and other services. Sure it’s low budget but it’s still better than the slop all the big companies are shoveling out of their troughs.

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      1 day ago

      I don’t care when my only way to watch YouTube it’s either:

      • on Firefox with uBlock Origin
      • on ReVanced
      • on SmartTube (for Android TV)
      • by downloading the video through yt-dlp