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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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I’m curious what people would prefer for revenue generation models. Just subscription fees? A lot of folks also seem resistant to that as well.
I would happily pay for yt premium, if that also meant that google does not violate my privacy and sell my data.
That’s my problem, you have to be logged in if you pay and that’s just more data for them to suck up. I watch not logged in. If I want to comment I use a different device.
What they had like 10 years ago a couple ads here and there. Not 5 minutes ad 5 minutes ad 5 minutes ad 5 minutess ad.
Interesting. I didn’t think anyone was cool with any ads.
I'm fine with reasonable ads. Plex Live TV has ads that don't always get caught by NextDNS for me and it's always some local business and like 30 seconds, NBD it's a free service and needs to operate somehow and I'm not aware of any major privacy breaches from Plex. I feel the same way about YT video sponsor segments, they don't always get caught by ReVanced, also, NBD the creator also needs to get paid for their work.
Thanks for your thoughtful response!
I remember a time when ads were loud, obnoxious and popped out. So I'm fine with minimal sidebar and an ad at the start middle if the video was long enough and at the end.
There was a time where they only used banner ads. Or ads before the video and not in the middle. Honestly, if they had a cheap, no frills ad free sub, I'd pay for it.
That’s really interesting! Would you pay $8 for a no ads subscription?
Most likely, especially if it's not locked to one device. I know about their premium lite sub, but 8 dollars for "less" ads isn't going to do it for me.
That’s how much my student subscription is, that’s why I was curious. I think it’s $6.99 plus tax?
Direct sponsoring has worked in the past with many open source projects (including lemmy.world). Could be closer to what Patreon does.