"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership
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YouTube is hostile to viewers unless you pay them £20 a month.
It’s like 15 ads per 2 mins screen time with 2 being unstoppable and 1 being 3 minutes long.
Slightly exaggerated but not far from the truth. It’s horrible. And they slow everything down too, the main video fake buffers whereas when you’re in premium it doesn’t.I didn’t mind paying a fiver but had to do it via the moon to get it cheap but now they have stopped that.
for Android (TV): smart tube next
For a browser (Firefox): ublock origin.
Have not seen an ad in years, and i have not paid a cent to youtube.
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I would but I primarily watch on my tv
get SmartTube Next if it's an android TV
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I assume you're using a "smart" TV.
Those things only exist to take power away from you. You should hook up a PC or laptop to your TV with a wireless keyboard and mouse so you're not being herded by techbros.
I’m quite happy with my Apple TV and Plex
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get SmartTube Next if it's an android TV
Sadly not. Apple TV
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I didn’t mind paying a fiver but had to do it via the moon to get it cheap but now they have stopped that.
Useful idiot mentality. They're charging you that money to maximize profit, not because it's necessary to provide the service.
Your "fivers" are paying for their nicer campuses, executive bonuses, and lavish business trips/vacations. Analysts also use it as an excuse to charge more, since the data shows that people like you are "happy/proud" to get ripped off.
I wish proles were smarter and a bit more mean so they could better recognize how they're being taken advantage of and how often they support their oppressors.
Too many of you go along with getting taken for a ride because you want to fit in and avoid conflict. Businessmen take advantage of that mentality every day.
Yes, large scale video hosting is notoriously free to provide.
YouTube the service absolutely has a cost to it. It’s been born by the owners at first and then people who watch ads. It got profitable when they started showing more ads. Premium is a way to get out of watching ads. You and I use adblockers and it’s fine but if a significant share of people did, the cost for paying users would have to keep increasing.
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I’m quite happy with my Apple TV and Plex
Instead of using those, you could be using a free streaming site. You'll get more content and it's easier to set up.
Just type in the URL, and search for what you want.
Here's one of the best sites I've found: https://hydrahd.io/ I guarantee they have significantly more offerings than either apple tv or your plex.
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I was never a fan of LTT, or his videos, but I did watch one video, his Pop os one and that immediately confirmed why.
i don't watch him. He's just a rich white dude flaunting his wealth. Fuck Linus (not Torvalds)
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There's a "block" button somewhere in Lemmy's interface, under my profile. Just use it and go back swallowing crappy YT videos.
There's a "block" button somewhere in Lemmy's interface, under my profile. Just use it and go back swallowing.
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Instead of using those, you could be using a free streaming site. You'll get more content and it's easier to set up.
Just type in the URL, and search for what you want.
Here's one of the best sites I've found: https://hydrahd.io/ I guarantee they have significantly more offerings than either apple tv or your plex.
Free streaming sites are awful. I prefer my way thank you.
And I don’t mind paying for things, just not getting ripped off.
I buy things on 4k that are special, then on iTunes for in between and then high seas everything else.
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I prefer to read books. Thanks. By the way, the fact that you need adblocker an sponsorblock to enjoy a few videos speaks volumes.
You also need to buy books, or borrow them from someone else who did. YouTube videos are free usually.
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I was never a fan of Linus tech tips. He always seemed like a weird guy. I did watch that video where he totally fucked his Linux installation by being really dumb. The package manager warned him that he was about to destroy his system and made him type something like "Yes, I know what I'm doing". He then reacted like, "why would Linux do this to me!? It's so hard!"
Either a paid shill or an absolute moron.
por que no los dos
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Free streaming sites are awful. I prefer my way thank you.
And I don’t mind paying for things, just not getting ripped off.
I buy things on 4k that are special, then on iTunes for in between and then high seas everything else.
I have a decent home server.Free streaming sites are awful.
No they aren't, lol. But whatever floats your boat.
I'll be over here enjoying more things for a cheaper price and helping others do the same.
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Free streaming sites are awful.
No they aren't, lol. But whatever floats your boat.
I'll be over here enjoying more things for a cheaper price and helping others do the same.
Free sites come and go. Usenet is eternal
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And God forbid you enable captions on the video or something - it'll disable itself every time an ad plays.
How do I turn that feature on?
I keep turning off captions off, and every few days they are automatically turned back on.
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The most recent findings from Brodie Robertson were that the vieas to likes ratio skyrocketed, something that LTT also has confirmed on their side in the newer stream, and what seems like similar behavior in DarkviperAU's channel. It seems that the likes are the same or higher, and the actual pay for the ads are basically the same, but the views are reduced. It's as if views were the same but are being displayed lower than usual.
Not that most people here would care apparently, because the majority just wants to shit on Linus above actually having any worthwhile look into any of this stuff
Edit: Some direct links to said videos for whoever is interested
- https://youtu.be/1hVwUjcsl6s
- https://youtu.be/qPen-cHdYmk?t=1074 (timestamp 17:54)
Ya, I can't believe how negative people are towards LTT. That channel is the reason I de-googled when I did, dove into home assistant, even checked out Linux (and now use arch full time by the way). I'm not super interested in defending a company let alone a YouTube personality, but like Jesus Christ some most of the people commenting negatively about LTT need to chill the fuck out. They're not that bad, they clearly pay people well, they're open and honest about most shit. If your bullshit detector is going off with LTT I think it needs tuning because you're probably hitting a lot of false negatives IMHO.
I have no doubt being as wealthy as Linus is is changing him, I have no doubt that's effecting the company, but there's nothing I'm seeing as a regular watcher that is glaringly bad or evil and I recognize in myself I'm actively starting to default to "fuck off" for millionaires so like ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌. I don't think the channel is getting grandfathered in on that clause either, they just seem to like people doing their best.
I don't like Linus's time-theft stance as of late, the most recent multi monitors vid had a comedic discussion between him and an employee and I recognize his job in that role is to be the straight man and say time charging fraud is theft or whatever but it feels out of touch. That's a negative thing I can point to I guess. Am I gonna consider Linus or LTTY evil or shit because he's vocal about theft being theft even though I think corpos can fuck off because they're getting more productivity then we're getting paid - no, no I'm not.
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Sadly not. Apple TV
ah. i have the same issue on my iphone. I just don't watch youtube on my iphone because fuck ads.
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YouTube is hostile to viewers unless you pay them £20 a month.
It’s like 15 ads per 2 mins screen time with 2 being unstoppable and 1 being 3 minutes long.
Slightly exaggerated but not far from the truth. It’s horrible. And they slow everything down too, the main video fake buffers whereas when you’re in premium it doesn’t.I didn’t mind paying a fiver but had to do it via the moon to get it cheap but now they have stopped that.
They are using automatic dubbing by default here in France! I was horrified the first time.
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ah. i have the same issue on my iphone. I just don't watch youtube on my iphone because fuck ads.
Get the ublock origin lite and on for safari, had worked an absolute treat for stopping YouTube ads on my iPad.
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I’m quite happy with my Apple TV and Plex
I have the same setup as you and just pay the Premium.
One thing I would recommend is getting isponsorblocktv on your server. It skips the ad reads within the YouTube content and works on Apple TV.
Every year or so I look for a tracker doing YouTube or a sonarr YouTube fork. The instinct to hoard data is strong. But none have worked consistently for me. -
I was never a fan of LTT, or his videos, but I did watch one video, his Pop os one and that immediately confirmed why.
Also that video where he tried Mac OSX for the first time. All his complains in that video were that it didn’t work like Windows.
