Looks like its over for me and youtube. Being told I cant watch because of an ad blocker.

Where is everyone moving to and using instead of youtube? I will just move to the same place.

  • subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world
    2344·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t go anywhere. I spend a lot of time on YouTube and enjoy the service immensely. Also, YouTube Music is my main streaming source. And yeah, I pay for both, every month. It’s worth it to me. YMMV.

    • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      I’m happy it works for you but unless no tracking/privacy violations is included in their subscription model this will not work for a lot of people here.

      • nopersonalspace@lemmy.world
        51·
        1 year ago

        Same, privacy concerns are huge for me. Also, there’s no way I’m paying $18.99 a month for it, that’s comically expensive. It’s the same as Netflix’s top tier plan, and at least Netflix has the expense of producing their own content to (attempt) to justify that cost.

        • ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.oneOP
          2715·
          1 year ago

          I run a lemmy server and nobody pays anything to use it. It a public service by me for anyone.

          Just because some company hasnt figured out how to do it doesnt mean something cannot exist for the good of the public run by members of the public.

          Im not interested in conforming to imposed problems personally. Im interested in building resilient systems. That was why we invented technology as humans to begin with. Otherwise whats the point.

          • algorithmae@lemmy.one
            132·
            1 year ago

            Are you really trying to compare a text/link service with ~10k users to a HD video service with millions of users?

          • patient_tech@lemmy.world
            122·
            1 year ago

            Video bandwidth is expensive. Plus YouTube pays the creators too for producing the content. I subscribe to YouTube, and haven’t had a real TV subscription in years. Totally still saving money. In terms of hours per dollar per month, it’s gotta be pennies for me. Plus YouTube music and downloading to my phone to save data is kinda nice too.

        • shootwhatsmyname@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Hopefully most of us understand that. I think for a lot of us it’s privacy/ethical issues with Google