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.

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.

Don’t come crying back when they’ll force you to either pay 50$/hour for your cat videos, or entirely block off your access to the internet as they control the engine behind 99% of the browser market share.

No, you will not come and host it for free on lemmy. It already struggles with hosting, and already needs monetary support, even though most heavy content is on some 3rd party domain.

But maybe you’ll be happy to donate 10$/months so your only source of fun content doesn’t die.

They’re making it unusable. YT is literally starting a massive war on users with AdBlock. And oh boy was lemmy angry.

I was there. And it stood on the shoulders of volunteers. And we collectively gathered money so our favorite imageboard could pay for hosting. And we discussed how unethical it was to block ads, cuz the imageboard needs to pay for hosting. So either donate or click on the ads, ane make sure the revenue flows. (Remember the tiny text “please click on the ads, it supports the site”?)

We offloaded imagehosting to shady weird websites with virus autodownloaders, where you absolutely had to block JS just so you don’t get pwned. And so some suckers would eventually get pwned, have their screen locked, pay ransom, and finance our collective love for zipgifs.

I was there, Gandalf, I was there 20 years ago. YouTube and Tumblr were the holy saviors.

So, is OP donating to lemmy? Or self-hosting some content?

Or only leeching while explaining to everyone that this is how communism is supposed to work?

You draw new borders and stop shooting, that’s a start. You then keep the agreement by having enough military for a new invasion to be undesirable. Simple game theory. Trust and promises only work for societies that mutually respect each other.

Until you self-host funny cat videos, OP, you’re just a leech. Maybe like a poor kid or something.

Where do you get this attitude that everything should be provided to you for free and you’re entitled to it?

And it’s still a circle-jerk

And it’s also wrong.

Sure, but it’s a private coffee shop, and they can just simply not let you in without paying or in headphones. They need to make money.

So, at first your clever trick works. But once everyone is doing it, their advertisers stop paying them, so now someone’s gotta pay for the coffee somehow.

No it didn’t. It said “entry for free, coffee either for money or with ads”.

I definitely find it more aesthetically pleasing. Just like the icon packs.

In the comments to your coffee shop story someone points out that coffee shops deserve to be paid for the coffee and the working space you occupy. The comment gets heavily downvoted with other commenters providing great counter-arguments, like “the coffee is ridiculously overpriced, like a 100% margin, it’s an evil for-profit business and we shouldn’t pay those” and “they just had a coffee, it costs them almost nothing, the rest of the time they werr just working, which didn’t incur any costs on the coffee shop. The coffee shop are assholes, if they let the OP work till the evening, they would’ve paid for their coffee”. Someone even suggested a new commercial model for the coffee shop: everyone makes their own coffee, it’s free, and so is seating, funding is donation-based. They have certainly seen such a place before, although, they themselves would never be up for running one cuz they have a day job to pay the bills.

You go to a coffee shop, you order a coffee, open your laptop and start working. After you’re done with your coffee the waiter comes and asks you whether you would like to pay. You say no and continue working. One hour later they ask you again whether you would like to pay. You say no and continue working. Two hours later the waiter insists you either pay and leave, or pay for two coffees, and they bring you another one, then you can stay and work. You call the police because you’re being harassed, and post on lemmy about predatory coffee shop practices trying to upsell you a second coffee. The police arrests the waiter and you get 9000 upvotes on lemmy.

Running a video-on-demand platform is very, very expensive. Just an FYI.

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Trust me, if you wanna learn German by being airdropped into the country with a dictionary, you’ll have a very very bad time compared to what Goethe Institute teaches.

Because in order to properly speak the language you need to know the grammar. And you will almost certainly not ever grasp it properly on your own without guidance by an experienced educator. Germany is full of those people who after decades of living there keep making awful grammatical mistakes. While people who went to Goethe Institute usually don’t.

Same for people who learn JavaScript from a tutorial and suddenly they’re a web dev, but understand nothing about algorithms complexity and so the whole fuckin internet is so slow it hurts.

Precisely because of that attitude of yours.

It takes a day to learn how to train an AI model in python. It takes a PhD to understand what you’re doing.

Please, teach me in a week how to write my own compiler and under what conditions re-compilation converges.

Sorry, I don’t know what’s a for loop or what’s a set, I only know how to do 2+2 in excel.

Go.