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The problem is that they actually don't mean that. And truthfully I don't mind the idea of paying for video hosting, that shit's expensive, but YouTube is going about it in the worst way possible.
slowing my buffer down is not how you get me to turn of my adblocker. no thanks.
YouTube didn't slow down the buffer. It was ublocks latest update. There's a patch rolling out I believe.
Was gonna comment you're wrong.
Turns out you're not. Well fuck me I guess.
I thought it was adblocks latest update.
Do you mean the actual video buffer or the page's loading time? Because they made it take 5~ seconds longer to load on Firefox when they started going after adblockers and my filter that replaced it with
0.0001(or whatever) seconds hasn't been working for a little bit.https://youtu.be/iBTEibxAi7I
Is it really uBlock Origins? They mention AdBlock and AdBlock Plus, which are separate from uBlock Origins.
No no, we mean it, at least at that price. I'd be willing to kick YouTube a few bucks a month. I'm not going to pay them more per month than most MMOs. They're trying to charge streaming service prices for content they don't produce.
Because they pay the creators from that? They're not taking the whole thing as a cost for hosting
Right. Some people get stuck up about getting things for free that they think they should get for free.* But a lot of the problem is the obnoxious ways companies go about control and profit.
*There are important arguments to be had about freedom, still.
This idea that nobody on the internet is willing to pay for anything is outdated. Most people know that if it's not money, they're paying in data, time and/or attention. I much prefer paying with money, as do most people that use Proton, Kagi and other paid alternatives to free Google products.