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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is watching this video considered piracy if there are no ads to skip over?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This comment is where LTT started going down for me.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I listened to an episode of the wan show once and I was out. He showed such disdain for his own audience.

Someone gave like $100 or something insane for a super chat question and he was rude to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Someone gave like $100 or something insane for a super chat question and he was rude to them.

Should've bought a backpack instead. /s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bro, the simple fact that Linus failed to recognize that ads are most of the time forced on you, with no paid opt-out alternative, had me cursing at him.

It's not piracy if I can't pay to get the product unaltered. PERIOD.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

YouTube premium is exactly that though, isn't it? Not that I agree with either side, just trying to comprehend

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You still get their obnoxious "screwdriver, lttstore, waterbottle" reminders in every single video. Their 10sec in-video ads aren't that bad, but other channels have 2min ads within 8min videos. Which mean's paying users still get more ads than someone with browser extensions/modified apps.

The whole thing is a race to the bottom. People use adblock because there are just too many Youtube ads. Creators get less money from Youtube, so they resort to more and more in-video ads, and eventually SponsorBlock gets more appealing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've generally liked LTT's approach to ads since it means I can hit the right arrow key twice to skip the ad entirely but I hear you for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

YouTube premium is supposed to be this, but it is apparently glitching enough that you get plenty of results for "YouTube premium still showing ads" web searches, and it does nothing against sponsor spots.

I would shut up if Google implemented a sponsor block feature for premium users, and fixed their ads showing to (too many) premium subscribers. Buy they don't. As it stands, paying for premium to get rid of ads is as efficient as using DoNotTrack (which is effectively just added data for fingerprinting).

[–] UhBell 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never once seen an ad on YT premium wtf?

[–] big_slap 1 points 1 year ago

yeah me neither. have the family plan since the program started

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh. I've had Premium for years and never once had it show me ads anyway. Crazy that other people have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] pachrist 2 points 1 year ago

It's also that so many ads are malicious and present in incredibly bad faith. Maybe that ad from Welches is fine, even if I had to watch it 3 times back to back, but that mobile game ad that hits my block list for malware isn't. Treating them the same is what the website does, even though some are malicious, so I treat them the same and block them all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And linus' response to it is the same smug doublespeak as he's using now. God I hate this dude.