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- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I’m sure they are working on a youtube messaging app behind the scenes.
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finally
This article is just a youtube premium ad 🤢
As far as what you get when you go Premium, you won’t see any more ads within the app or the videos that you’re watching. Plus, you’ll gain access to background play, along with being able to download videos on the go. And perhaps what makes this plan even more worthwhile is that you get access to YouTube Music, which features over 100 million commercial free songs. Now, the one drawback is that these features don’t come for free, with a subscription costing $13.99 per month in the US.
But premium doesn’t have sponsorblock
I have premium and SponsorBlock. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
How does that work, do you still need revanced to modify the apk?
I use uYouEnhanced on iOS. Also the actual SponsorBlock extension on Safari.
I would gladly pay for Premium if it actually gave you a decent user experience but it doesn’t.
I use 3rd party apps because they don’t fill my feed with garbage content. They just show me what I ask for.
Not to mention apps like GrayJay that integrate content from other sources in the same app.
Or that it YouTube does nothing about creators filling content with their own ads.
I was really interested in Nebula before I glanced at their privacy policy and realized that it has all the same data-mining and selling as every other modern web service.
We need better alternatives
Also YT premium is not a good solution as it does nothing for privacy
Video is nearly impossible to host in a sustainable way. The bandwidth usage is among the most expensive things you can host. The only way you’re getting something better than YouTube is if it’s tax funded somehow.
Nebula is very sustainable.
The 20mbit bandwidth of a 4k video might have been a lot 10 years ago, but it’s child’s play now.
I also pay for Nebula.
I’m fine paying for a service, but I’m not going to pretend that it is a YouTube equivalent.
20 mbps may be child’s play, not often for download only, not upload, and then don’t forget that just a hundred viewers will generate 2 gbps of traffic. And hundred viewers are nothing.
Sure, most videos are not 4k. The bandwidth usage still goes up pretty quick.
I think PeerTube’s idea that viewers of the same video can serve each other is an interesting concept. Problem is, afaik most are not using dekstop computers anymore, and most of the time people are living off batteries and their traffic limited cellular data subscription, where this is probably a very costly operation for the user.
I get what you’re saying, but honestly 2gbps of traffic is also nothing in 2024.
I think a ~$100k server can push something like 1-2tbps. That’d be enough bandwidth for 100k users.
I’m not in the streaming industry, but that’s at least what I’ve seen from Netflix’s presentations. The main bottleneck for streaming servers these days isn’t even the network cards, it’s the bandwidth on your 16-24 channel DDR5 server RAM interfaces.
Netflix presentation from 2021 about their 1tbps servers:
And what ISP will give you a connection with terabits in upload speed?
Probably you’re thinking about placing the machine in a data center, I’m not familiar with that.However with that price I wouldn’t say that “it’s nothing”. Even just the hardware, where I live it’s the price of a house, and people barely afford it even with a loan.
It’s probably not much to well running companies, but here we are speaking about individuals and relatively smaller groups, ran by donations and not for profit.And the main bottleneck there is, is it really the RAM? How? Are they not touching storage and keeping everything in a ramdisk?
Yeah, video streaming can’t really be run on donations like Lemmy, that’s true.
I think the presentation discusses it, but basically, if you have 20+ ssds in your server, trying to read them all and process the file system will mean you’re copying around too much data at once in your ram. A 1gb file might require like 5-10gb of data traffic in ram while the CPU is processing it due to copies and checks, etc. Ram can’t handle the resulting 10tbps of ram bandwidth needed. The optimization that Netflix is doing is to use pcie to send files directly over the pcie bus from the ssd to the network cards, skipping the cpu and ram altogether.
Interesting service but still bad for privacy
That’s probably true, but economic sustainability is what makes privacy sustainability possible.
Youtube is such a mess because it has to fight so hard to make ads work, which is unsustainable.
Nebula makes its money through monthly fees and thus has no incentives to track users beyond providing a better service.
Nebula being essentially a creators’ co-operative organization also helps with the sustainable governence side, too.
Well I sure hope it isn’t getting Tax funded
Why not? Nationalize it and treat it like the infrastructure it is. Take the ISPs, too, while you’re at it.
God no
Will that end up with countries or territories ring-fencing things they fund for their own taxpayers?
I have YouTube Premium but I have to use ReVanced to block shorts because it’s terrible for my ADHD. My mental health has improved ever since I ripped that fucker out of my life.
I want to control what I see, and this isn’t even about them being paid anymore, it’s just about forcing me to see what I don’t want to see.
Good luck YouTube
The official YouTube app will provide one of the better experiences…
Ha ha ha ha… the author must be dreaming or hasn’t tried many other apps. NewPipe lets you run videos at custom speed, and optionally pitch-shift videos. And you can save videos to watch on any app capable of playing video files stored on disk.
Agreed… The second half of this “article” reads like an ad/puff piece.
A better researched article would go into the difference between API access, scrapers, and modifying the YouTube app, and question which of those YouTube will be able to detect. Maybe even discuss using region-pricing with a VPN to get YouTube premium for cheaper.
And don’t have to drag the seekbar, simply tap wherever you want to play
If they manage to break third-party applications, and they cannot be repaired, then I am totally just leaving YouTube entirely. It’s not worth it at that point.
I agree. I refuse to watch ads or to pay for an experience that offers less than a fraction of what Newpipe offers. When Newpipe is no longer viable I’ll repurpose that time to chipping away at my reading list.
I quit when they took away the dislike counter, so many said they would but didn’t. All I ever see about Youtube is people complaining about their new shitty tactics… just leave, it’'s the ONLY way to get any changes. They will never change if people keep using the platform.
Suck it up, leave, you won’t regret it.
But where do I go instead for my aquarium hobbyist videos? 😥
How did you quit? Is there any other video platform?
Interesting, I guess we will have to see how quickly and widely this is enforced. I haven’t used the official YouTube app for a very long time and have relied heavily on third party alternatives (Vanced/ReVanced, NewPipe, LibreTube, Grayjay). There is absolutely no way I am paying $17 a month for YouTube so I think a family plan would probably be the best option, though at this point I think I’d be more likely to just abandon the platform altogether.
I use the official YouTube app with premium. But, it glitches and reloads on its own after a while. Not to mention the UI frame rate getting capped to the video frame rate when playing a video.
3rd party apps let me download and browse the videos in a better way and I can also download them in 4k resolution in HDR format.
@Wahots guess they’ll do just like they did with ublock origin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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