and then they wonder why the general public works so hard to get around ads. I had no problem when it was a short 5ish second ad at the beginning. Servers and video hosting are expensive, I get it.
Now? Now it’s pure unadulterated greed. We passed the “keep the lights on” moment a long time ago, this is just a cash cow for them.
The Quest for More Money™ always means that deal you made for paying for no ads is only valid until that graph needs to go up even higher.
Theyre darth Vader, but there is no praying they dont alter the deal any further - it will be altered, its just a matter of when.
Also, the ads on Youtube are just so so so fucking terrible. Like ally streaming services have ads, and they are the same old TV style ads, little 20-30 second bits of nonsense trying to be memorable about a profuct.
Meanwhile, Youtube is trying to push these weird scammy sales pitches prrtending to be ads, often like 10+ minutes long unless you skip them when the timer hits. Its terrible.
God I hate that, if you lost the remote and can’t click skip yet. Don’t worry! They’re going to suddenly give you multiple minutes of slop ads while you search for it! Up to 10 minutes I’ve seen!
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Of course they would. They just showed that people by far watch YouTube more than any other individual streaming service, and that they make more in ad revenue than most other streaming services.
Other streaming services have long, annoying, unskippable ads too. If YouTube has a lot of marketshare, and knows a lot of people aren’t gonna get the content from, say, their favorite YouTuber, on something like Disney+, they can add all the unskippable ads they want as long as it’s close enough to the other streaming services to make people not decide to watch different content entirely.
NewPipe, Tubular, FreeTube, Grayjay, …
I’ll never watch ads; that’s an unbreakable rule. If at some point third-party apps can no longer serve video, then I won’t watch it (and I’ll be finally liberated from their monopoly).
Can I ask any content creators to consider Peertube first? Youtube can be set up to pull your videos from Peertube via RSS. That way you can use Youtube as a platform where folks can find and watch you, but you can also keep your content and build your community on YOUR own platform?
Never going to happen. Could you imagine if a video went viral.
You’re thinking like a YouTube. We can he something completely different. We can’t replace YouTube, we can help serve under represented communities.
And even then, viral will mean something different. Also once your video is transcoded, the only work to do is deliver the content. There’s S3 and CDN’s , but even a lot of direct ISPs will allow you terabytes of bandwidth before they start caring.
Peertube doesn’t scale
It might not scale vertically, but it scales horizontally.
Not really as video content uses a significant amount of hardware resources. It also is really janky and official app sucks.
laughs in SmartTube
Ya there’s a multitude of options across various platforms, if someone is still using vanilla YouTube it’s their own fault.
For android tv just sideload smarttube.
*install
That is true, just as easy as enter a downloader key and your are done.
Can you use Morphe on Android TV?
I really don’t know.
Found a Chromecast Ultra in an op shop for $5, cast to it with Grayjay, no ads.
One of the very first things I installed on my Fire cube was SmartTube the YouTube ads were so ridiculous already I found it unwatchable.
I wish it had a real rival but realistically nobody’s in a position to pay content creators really except them.
Nebula?
Nebula’s cool, but it’s not a potential competitor to YouTube, and as far as I know, is has no intention to be. It’s far more niche.
