Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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Sadly I haven't found a tool that works on smart TVs, so I just pay for it
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I am hooked on the music.
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Musify exists.
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Just get another translate extension.
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Eh, I would argue you're only using the servers to access the content creators data. Youtube is the interface, algorithm, advertisement, comments, etc. If it's just the creators data being accessed with no additional contribution from youtube then I would just treat it as any ol' host server.
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Sadly I have Roku TVs
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There was a true golden age where the technology for ads was so shitty and the companies didn't even know what they were worth somewhere between 2006-2010.
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... And has made video content for billions of people unbearable to watch or enjoy.
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I'll just share with you my experience:
I was also paying for a YouTube Premium family plan, but still got ads. What made me cancel was the fact that they're still using trackers, so they were making money off me three times (subscription, ads, and selling my data)!
Coupled with the fact that "content creators" don't really make content for the love of making it. It's all created "for the algorithm", especially the "watch to the end", clickbait titles and thumbnails, "like and subscribe" begging, "only 15% of you are subscribers", sponsored content disguised as education, etc... Videos today are nothing like they were 15 years ago, because it became solely about making money.
Google is one of the pioneers of the enshittification movement!
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What if you only use the apps?
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Only on Lemmy you get downvoted for saying you pay for a service you like...
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RVX, a fork of ReVanced, works well on Android. You'll have to side load it yourself, but it's got very good ad blocking and sponsor block if you don't want to hear shilling during a video.
No idea for iPhone.
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There are tools for the music side as well
RVX Music works quite well for me on Android
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Use a third party app like New Pipe, if your on a fruit phone... you unfortunatly cant side load apps, I dont have an answer...
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Honestly, the service is worth it for me. I need the easiest process possible for my luddite wife and kindergartener's Amazon fire tablet. I put my mom on the account too.
But for everything else, yarrrrr.
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Yes, and for all I care, they can run out (though they won't) and their sites can shut down.
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What rock have you been hiding under?
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I'm using newpipe but the anybility to find content with youtubr's content discovery algorithm or a locally running one makes for a lot yif very annoying tab switching and scrolling to the bottom of newpipe thousand item playlist.
I'm going to try this rvx!
