• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
    1·
    34 minutes ago

    My time is too valuable to be watching ads. I need to know what some youtuber says I won’t belive happened with one of them open faces and big eyes in the thumbnail

  • Jollyllama@lemmy.world
    31·
    57 minutes ago

    I’ve had premium for almost as long as premium has been around. It is the only streaming service In have ever paid for.

    • babybus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      The decimal separator makes it look like the human hair is 10cm thick.

      That one facial hair that is thicker than the others.

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      I saw that. I almost didn’t post this because of it. I used to work with a lot of maps, so something like that makes the lizard part of my brain rage.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 hour ago

      Also - trailing zeros after the decimal serve no purpose but to define precision. With the resolution of the image, there’s no way the bar is precise to 1/100,000 of its width.

      Sig Figs matter.

  • no banana@lemmy.world
    236·
    7 hours ago

    It’s literally the only subscription I think is worth having. But I get it, you do you!

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
      9·
      3 hours ago

      I know it’s irrational but at this point if I bought premium I would feel like I’ve been bullied into it.

      It would feel less sour if they didn’t lock other features like background play into premium, for me that’s too much of a dark pattern to support.

      • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 minutes ago

        I get that. I’ve had it since it came out so I’ve missed out on the bullying.

        You can absolutely “ad me” the hell away from your product.

        The few times that I’ve used YouTube at work I know I wouldn’t be watching YouTube at all if it wasn’t for premium.

        I do completely live life to avoid ads as much as possible.

      • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        61·
        2 hours ago

        Honestly, I couldn’t give tuppenny fuck about background play, or any of the other shit they bundle in. I literally just want to be able to watch YT on my Apple TV without having to suffer through unending adverts, but I’m not prepared to those ratfucking shit heads £20+ for the family plan just to be able to do that.

        I was happy as shit using my Ukrainian YT Premium account, paying £4 a month to watch videos. It was great. Never used YT Music because I didn’t fucking want to, never had videos playing in the background because I didn’t fucking need to. Then they were all like “Errr, we don’t think you’re in Ukraine so you have to pay us more”. And fuck that noise.

        So now I watch the odd video on my laptop on Freetube and have been researching how to run the thing that automatically downloads my subs and adds them to Plex. I’m a dumb shit though, so can’t figure it out.

      • no banana@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Well I’ve seen how people have shared the way YouTube have changed their tactics over time and I don’t feel like I can blame you for feeling that way.

        I got my subscription back when it was named YouTube Red. Like, as soon as it became available in my country. I just always saw it as a good deal, and I haven’t really had to see any of that shit personally. I do think the way they’re marketing it these days seems to be very annoying though.

    • moonburster@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 hours ago

      What are the features that brought you over? I had it before, but YouTube music was too lackluster for me (polish, sound quality, ease of searching) and for the YouTube part I use van Ed on mobile and ublock

          • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            2 hours ago

            Quite a bit. For your subscription YouTube will take 45%. The other 55% are split among other creators by watch time of the subscriber. For what it’s worth, the creators I watch love that system and benefit from it quite a bit. It’s more consistent and safer than ad revenue.

          • no banana@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 hours ago

            I’m not sure of the exact numbers, but I remember recently listening to a podcast or something where they mentioned that premium users’ views are worth a little bit more than ad watchers on average. I’m assuming that’s because there’s no third party advertiser that needs a cut.

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    27·
    9 hours ago

    What’s that from? I’m legitimately curious, it looks like some very cool technology.