• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Some industry people are amazingly entitled about your obligation to participate in their business model. Jack Valenti, a former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, once literally called muting commercials or leaving the room during them “theft of programming”.

    • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      10 months ago

      So im assuming a bunch of people are filming themselves walking out of a room with commercials playing and sending it to him with a big FU in the subject line?

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Well probably not, since he’s been dead almost 20 years. He made his statement during the Napster era, when copyright was more in the news.

    • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Cries in 4K monitor

      Seriously, I love the concept of NewPipe but the low resolution bugs me too much. I’m holding out with Firefox and uBlock as long as I can.

      And guess what, if it gave me an ad free experience at an affordable price I actually wouldn’t mind paying for YT Premium.

      • toiletobserver@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Oh yeah, definitely your way on pc. I was thinking my phone. And, i can adjust the resolution… It ain’t 4k, but i don’t care

  • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Pretty sure there were patents where they record audio and camera to detect if the user is present to pause and resume ads

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      This scenario is obviously incredibly unlikely and some dystopian shit. They’ll make the ads interactive first, if anything, the interaction being a requirement to move on. In either scenario, I’m just leaving. I pay for Amazon Prime. The delivery service works really well where I live. I won’t go on the video service because there might be ads. I am so turned off by ads, it makes it super easy to just not use shit.

      Where YouTube Premium, and Spotify, and any number of services that I pay for (on a family plan I share with five friends), differ from Amazon is that none of them are tied to some other valuable service. If any of them hit me with ads, I’m out, ezpz. I was 13 in 2020. I pirated 'everything, because I didn’t have any money. I don’t pirate anymore because I am 37, and I have money, and I have no problem paying for good services. But I’ll equate not having money at 13 with refusing to pay for ads at 37, in that pirating is the solution to both problems.

    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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      10 months ago

      Hopefully by that point, it can also be used to generate a fake video file of “someone paying attention” to output to a virtual camera :)

      • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        It would be the same technology, because both use cases would require AI to have built an accurate model of what human faces look like

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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    10 months ago

    I will never pay for Youtube or accept ads. Yes, even if it would bankrupt them. I am more than willing to let it all burn.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Ads are brainwashing. They sell companies access to your brain case and it’s always been a disturbing behavior.

    • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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      10 months ago

      Every time I’ve tried to use an alternative it hasn’t had anything that grabbed my interest. If you say I’m not looking hard enough, you’ve missed the point of why I’m currently on a short video platform instead of watching a TV show or movie. If I have to look hard you’ve already lost me.

    • TheRealKuni@midwest.socialEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Nebula is awesome. But if you’re going to pay for a video service, you could also pay for YouTube Premium and not get ads regardless of your ad blocking setup, AND support the people whose videos you watch (at least a little, certainly more than ad-supported viewers).

      (Nebula is better than YouTube for specific genres, but YouTube is of course more broad and contains most of what Nebula has.)

      • BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        Sure but Nebula is cheaper than youtube premium AND pays it’s creators more because it’s a platform owned by it’s creators.

      • possumparty@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        yeah, absolutely degenerates rooting for absolute degenerates. it’s like if you took the dumbest people on /b/ and gave them a platform that encourages them to be worse.

  • danhab99@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    I’d rather foot the bill directly. I’d rather pay for shit if it costs something. I’d rather the businesses that I do business with work harder to make their products better rather than work harder to make me click on ads.

    • pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Unfortunately they seem to make products better until they reach saturation, then they split into tiers, raise prices (and/or lower offerings - looking at you Max) and start introducing ads into paid tiers.