| ▲ | dominotw 9 hours ago |
| i judge ppl who dont have youtube premium as a not curious ppl :D |
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| ▲ | worldsayshi 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I find YT to be very sloppy nowadays. Not so much AI content as content that is over-optimized for clicks and revenue. 80% filler and maybe 20% substance. I should probably de-algoify my YT experience. |
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| ▲ | bonoboTP 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | YT is huge, and there is plenty of good stuff. You just need to subscribe to good channels that are not so easy to find. And block the clickbait channels when they appear. | | |
| ▲ | worldsayshi 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wish we could collectively move over to some decentralized alternative. Even if we make sure to disable the bad parts, relying on these few actors that have such revenue optimized and enshitification-prone business models does not sit right. Although decentralization by itself does probably not protect from this trap in the long run. | | |
| ▲ | johnnyanmac 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nothing is really stopping us the consumer. But given that YouTube seems to be the only one in its "medium" (compared to Twitch and TikTok being different formats) that pays creators, it's hard to ask all of them to impact their potential livelihoods. Nebula as a premium service seems to be the best in terms of paying creators and keeping non-perverse incentives. But Nebula is for very specific kinds of content. |
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| ▲ | dzhiurgis 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ask Mode is pretty great. Wish they’d just summarise all the video titles for me so I could avoid bait. |
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| ▲ | aghuang 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I judge ppl who are brainwashed enough to pay for youtube premium and watch videos based on their thumbnails. |
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| ▲ | dfansteel 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There are problems with YouTube and the library is free. https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01dz010t34x |
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| ▲ | nkrisc 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is there anything you can watch on premium that can’t watch on YouTube for free? |
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| ▲ | eru 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you don't watch on mobile, is there anything that YouTube Premiums gives you that an ad-blocker doesn't? |
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| ▲ | twobitshifter 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | YouTube music, higher quality video, and the ‘jump ahead’ feature to skip portions of a video that others usually skip. | | |
| ▲ | butlike 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You can do this manually on the free plan. Mouse over the playhead and you'll see a graph. You can click the highest point in the graph which is where most people clicked through to. | |
| ▲ | Melonai 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Also, though not a benefit to you in particular, apparently any creator you watch with Premium gets a way bigger payout for your view. Only heard about this anecdotally but it seems to track. |
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| ▲ | flohofwoe 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| is there a difference between youtube premium and youtube-with-adblocking? |
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| ▲ | eru 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's harder to block ads on mobile. That's why I pay. |
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| ▲ | malnourish 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's your right; I consider myself a very curious person but I never watch YouTube (I have watched less than 10 minutes in 2026). I prefer to read news and information. What little exposure to YouTube personalities and editing styles I've had annoys me to no end. |
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| ▲ | lotsofpulp 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I judge people who watch that much youtube as susceptible to disinformation. |
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| ▲ | eudamoniac 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Video is a terrible learning format for most information. I actually judge people who learn primarily through video as having very low information parsing throughput. |
