Unpopular opinion: sub to a plex/emby server. All your favorite shows on one platform, probably in 4k too, works on all devices, you never need to think ahead about torrenting something. Mine is 10$/month.

Signal just somehow forgets to store your IP address. So, their response will be “here are our logs, that phone number last time logged in yesterday, that’s all we got”

https://signal.org/bigbrother/northern-california-order/

Opposite in the EU. Most banks won’t even give you an option for a dispute. Or it will be awfully convoluted.

PayPal? Best dispute system ever. Saved me from online purchase scams countless times.

Same. Not GDPR compliant, that’s for sure.

Victims?! You’re using someone’s infrastructure, very expensive programmer talent, countless content creators dedication; you’re using all of it for free, and you’re the victim when the other party tries to enforce a payment?

People like you is why communism will never become a reality.

YouTube has a transparent 70/30 revenue share model for creators.

Your entire premium subscription fee is split into 70 to creators and 30 to google.

The 70 are forwarded to the creators in proportion to the watch time.

in fact it’s incorrect that “the more you watch, the more they earn”. You can only watch two videos in one month and each of the creators will earn the respective 4$

Then delete the YouTube app and go to the nebula. It’s a free country.

They’ll have to be taught a hard lesson. But realistically family was overly generous with a lot of folks essentially paying 2$/m for premium. You can definitely double this amount without many of them bothering to pirate.

Or people actually earn enough not to give two flying fucks about 10$ a month and want to support their content creators and the platform that enables them.

unpopular opinion: you can pay for premium and use Vanced/ReVanced because you value hosting infrastructure provided, and you understand that most of your money goes to the creators not google. And yet you still want control over the UI.

And you know what. If everyone actually did that instead of using Vanced for adblocking, it maybe still would’ve been alive.

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Well, I for once, never understood why is lemmy so willing to literally die in the trenches for that illegal immigrant lady who’s trying to fraud her way to friggin US presidency. I mean, all she’ll do is bring more fuckin illegals and give em fake papers.

When through our damn broken democracy she inevitably gets elected, I’ll put it as my Twitter status “not my president”.

Because I will never concede to an illegal running/ruining our country.

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The f are you on about? YouTube has a fairly affordable ad-free tier with a transparent revenue-share model that multiple top content creators have openly endorsed.

This ad infested hell only exists because most of the internet users think it’s outrageous to pay 10$/month for an all-you-can-eat VoD service. Some top creators did branch out to create their own streaming services, and spoiler alert, it’s more expensive, or just as expensive but with muuuuch less content.

I do care if all that YT content is gone. It’s a fuckin goldmine.

I’d really wish they actually had the audacity to just paywall the entire platform. Pay or fuck off, no ads.

And then people like you can go back to the good old days of some other random free video hosting service where a 360p video with a cat meme was buffering for a minute on a good day, or was completely unavailable on a bad one.

Lemmy in a nutshell. In like one post. Print it out, hang it on the wall, you never need to log in again.

CIA bots will downvote this, because it’s true: Harris is not a legal US national, her birth certificate was forged. Be careful who you vote for!

I hate that this is even a feature in the web standard. A result of some massive corporate corruption for sure.

You’re too far up your own ass.

Vanced got nuked, revanced constantly needs to be patched, otherwise it slips to the low quality settings. Free YT days are numbered.

And no, it’s not easy. Unless they want to encode ads into videos, and re-render the whole thing. Which is ludicrously expensive. For as long as they don’t there will be a way to not play the ad chunks.

What’s there to disagree with? you prove my point.

it stood on the shoulders of volunteers

Yeah. A classic story. A sysadmin took the old server from his work after they upgraded and now runs <insert video game guild imageboard/wiki/chat> on it.

With the amount of traffic modern web pipes through Google’s and Cloudflare’s servers, all of you homebrewers wouldn’t be enough to take over even 5% of that.

You can’t go back to the good old days because you’ll break your back trying to, and the collective lemmy anon can’t, because they’re too used to freeload while getting big tech quality service.