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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker
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this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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Have you tried paying for it?
No, steal from them as much as possible. Stealing from corporations is morally good.
You are stealing from creators, collateral damage I guess ๐คทโโ๏ธ
If you're worried about creators, support them via their patreons or what means they determine. They aren't making much directly from YouTube, and their support streams are more certain that way.
I think the YouTube copyright and claim system will take care of that more than a couple thousand viewers can.
I will never ever pay for youtube and I'll never stop blocking ads. Theres always a way, and if the day comes where ad blockers actually become iniffective then thats it for me, I'll find somewhere else. I'm already a reddit refugee since they blocked 3rd party aps and charge a subscription fee, I can't figure out a workaround yet so I dropped reddit altogether.
Sure, just throw money at the corpos, but please don't act surprised when they suddenly double the premium fee, or when they start sneaking in ads for premium users. That's the problem with corpo greed, it just never ends, and the moment you give in to it, you lose.
What if I want to pay, but also don't want to be tracked?
So I pay for a YouTube premium account, but I still use an ad blocker and logged out YouTube and a VPN so I'm not tracked.
The problem there is that you're giving more money to Alphabet but not giving your YouTube Premium views to the content creators. I understand not wanting to be tracked, but I feel like this is the worst scenario.
Might be the worst scenario, but nobody can know about my celebrity foot fetish. And I'm unwilling to be tracked.
As far as I'm concerned YouTube premium tracking, encouraging people to be logged into Google accounts, just like grocery stores loyalty programs. It's a premium to encourage you to be tracked.
That's all fair, I would just say cancel your YouTube Premium then.
Don't use it.
Why should I pay some extortionate fee each month on Google's monopoly? Even if I do that they're still hoovering up all the data they can get from me.
U-block Origin on desktop, revanced/newpipe for mobile.
IMO the money is much better spent on directly supporting content creators rather than padding the coffers of a 1.75 trillion dollar anti-competitive, monopolistic, tax-dodging, privacy-destroying company like Google.
Exactly, I whack out almost GBP 20 per month to content creators I like.
Spend the money where it will make a difference!
Remember when streaming services boasted about ad free viewing, only to then Continue to charge you AND serve ads to you WHILE collecting and selling your personal information? These companies can smd.
Tell me, how many cups of Pumpkin Spice Latte Chai Frappucino we are not drinking then?
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