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[-] i_am_a_cardboard_box@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Fuck that scale bar though. The decimal separator makes it look like the human hair is 10cm thick.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

It's literally the only subscription I think is worth having. But I get it, you do you!

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 46 minutes ago

I know it’s irrational but at this point if I bought premium I would feel like I’ve been bullied into it.

It would feel less sour if they didn’t lock other features like background play into premium, for me that’s too much of a dark pattern to support.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 21 minutes ago

Honestly, I couldn't give tuppenny fuck about background play, or any of the other shit they bundle in. I literally just want to be able to watch YT on my Apple TV without having to suffer through unending adverts, but I'm not prepared to those ratfucking shit heads £20+ for the family plan just to be able to do that.

I was happy as shit using my Ukrainian YT Premium account, paying £4 a month to watch videos. It was great. Never used YT Music because I didn't fucking want to, never had videos playing in the background because I didn't fucking need to. Then they were all like "Errr, we don't think you're in Ukraine so you have to pay us more". And fuck that noise.

So now I watch the odd video on my laptop on Freetube and have been researching how to run the thing that automatically downloads my subs and adds them to Plex. I'm a dumb shit though, so can't figure it out.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

Well I've seen how people have shared the way YouTube have changed their tactics over time and I don't feel like I can blame you for feeling that way.

I got my subscription back when it was named YouTube Red. Like, as soon as it became available in my country. I just always saw it as a good deal, and I haven't really had to see any of that shit personally. I do think the way they're marketing it these days seems to be very annoying though.

[-] moonburster@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

What are the features that brought you over? I had it before, but YouTube music was too lackluster for me (polish, sound quality, ease of searching) and for the YouTube part I use van Ed on mobile and ublock

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

I like that creators still get some compensation while I get to not think about ads.

[-] msage@programming.dev 2 points 23 minutes ago
[-] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 3 points 18 minutes ago

Quite a bit. For your subscription YouTube will take 45%. The other 55% are split among other creators by watch time of the subscriber. For what it’s worth, the creators I watch love that system and benefit from it quite a bit. It’s more consistent and safer than ad revenue.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but I remember recently listening to a podcast or something where they mentioned that premium users' views are worth a little bit more than ad watchers on average. I'm assuming that's because there's no third party advertiser that needs a cut.

[-] moonburster@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

That's a good reason.

[-] lohky@lemmy.world 39 points 6 hours ago

"So you're saying there's a chance?" - YouTube execs

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 25 points 6 hours ago

What's that from? I'm legitimately curious, it looks like some very cool technology.

[-] Teddy@programming.dev 14 points 4 hours ago

Manufactured by Castem Co. in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220407/p2a/00m/0na/010000c

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

Some science nerd did it. With science.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 13 points 6 hours ago

I'm legitimately upset this isn't a benchy

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