• kamen@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Ads aside, what’s been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the “1080p Enhanced Bitrate”; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don’t have Premium, but I’m fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would’ve been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      I’m guessing they’re going to use the classic method of increasing the subscription price and then later creating a new lite subscription that does have some ads.

  • Powerbomb@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    I was so happy to find this post, and was saddened again to see that I didn’t have this button available when I needed it hahahaha

  • Epzillon@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    Can anyone tell me why my “purge cache” button is missing? I thought i was crazy

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    YouTube Premium is the only media subscription I pay for because it’s the only one I consider worth it. I watch an unhealthy amount of YT, listen to tons of music, and even use YT as a kind of cloud storage for thousands of hours of recorded video.

    • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Sorry for the down votes, you’re 100% valid. YouTube Premium benefits me and the content creators I watch. Sure, it’s more complicated than that, but everything is, and sometimes you just have to make choices that make your life a little easier.

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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        8 hours ago

        Doesn’t bother me, I know that it’s an insanely hot take on Lemmy and reddit. I appreciate the vocal backup though.

    • DogWater@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Yup.

      Family plan is 22$ for ad free yt and music subscription for 5 or 6 people

      I get that Google bad an all that, but it’s a good deal

      • comfy@lemmy.ml
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        22 hours ago

        Personally, considering I can get it for free, and that Google bad, $22 is a bad deal for me. I’d rather donate $20 to the groups helping us get around it, and spend the other $2 on jawbreakers!

    • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I used to pay for it, for the same reasons. They stopped taking my money, i don’t know why, and I noticed zero change in the quality of the service.

      I’m paying for other google services, so I don’t know why youtube specifically stopped. Oh well.

    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I’d probably be paying for YouTube, if it were run by a normal media company instead of the world’s largest spy network and personal data broker. There’s no way in hell I’m giving them my credit card information.

      • BigDiction@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Data gathering/brokering and payment information security are not really connected. PCI compliance standards are well standardized and fairly strict.

        I would trust Google to handle payment information securely over any ‘media’ company.

        If personal data was regulated at even the fraction of what payment data goes through we would all be better off.

      • Grapho@lemmy.ml
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        1 day ago

        Yeah I don’t really care about value when it comes to giving money to the guys who work with the NSA and CIA to find ways to more thoroughly spy on every user 24/7, and turned every search into “You asked for x, here’s a dozen pages of what the State Department thinks you should have searched for instead”