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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never thought YouTube's business model was very sustainable. As the world economy goes down, so does the value of ads. Creators or consumers need to pay up for all the bandwidth and storage. The question is about what is a reasonable price. Are low tiers for $3/mo. possible along with premium 4k options or does everything need to be at more than that?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah please do, I will just stop using YouTube and that would be a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Well, this certainly explains my difficulty with YouTube over the last few days. Ironically, the piped instances still seem to be fine...

This might just be enough to push me primarily over to Rumble. There are fewer and fewer reasons to use YouTube and more and more reasons not to.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm certainly not an expert in this, but surely there are ways to get around this right? Pihole? Could ad blockers fake ads being played?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

At least for me, and as far as I know, Pihole doesn't block YouTube ads. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong because I'd love a network-level solution. Currently just have uBlock Origin for blocking YT ads.

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