"There's nothing more intoxicating than the clear absence of a penis."
"There's nothing more intoxicating than the clear absence of a penis."
There is a ton of quality content, I watch 3 hours a day and can't make a dent on my "watch later" queue.
News, popular science, hobbies, humor, tech...
Well, now we can feel at home, it's just like reddit!
The "unless" part is important...
Have you seen him testify? In front of a judge it's "I can't recall" time.
You would be surprised how many people will just uninstall the ad blocker the third time YouTube isn't working for 24 hours.
Every time YouTube or twitch make a change, a certain percentage of users give up, which means more revenue.
If you have pets bigger than a hamster, 70k in your lifetime seems reasonable, even low. That around 1k per year.
And a different used car every 6 years is borderline frugal. My dream would be a new car every 3 years.
I don't see the data to be so bad. Even the house financing is realistic (heavily dependent on location, of course).
I moved to YouTube premium a few years ago, family subscription, to share with up to 5 people. YouTube is my main source of entertainment and the 15 bucks total (or whatever the conversion rate is) is less than 90 minutes of a movie in a cinema, nit even including transportation and snacks. I get my news, tech news/reviews, tutorials, documentaries, inspiration and laughs on there. I watch it while getting ready in the morning, on my lunch break and for a longer while in the evening. I share it with 2 other people so it works out to around 5 bucks a month. And the creators I like get a big portion of that.
Sure, around 60 bucks a year might sound a lot, but it's the only service I pay for (except the 2 bucks a month Disney plus trial until December). As a small bonus YouTube music transformed my Google home devices into a multi-room audio Sonos alternative for under 1/3 of the price.
I still use NewPipe on my phone for downloads for offline use and yt-dlp for content I want to hoard.
That was bad and this is bad. Two things can be bad and saying the second one is bad doesn't means the first one is good.
Yeah, I was ready to pay 5 or 10 bucks a month, but the way they handled the situation is not acceptable. I just hope lemmy (or some other platform) gets enough of a critical mass that it becomes a viable alternative.
This is completely wrong. You are serving video stream, you just substitute for the ad you would serve the user, at a randomized point in the video. YouTube doesn't do this because they don't want to reimplement the tracking and logging, but if it was financially necessary it wouldn't be hard to do.
It's not taking a clear side, sometimes one of them is the topic of conversation.
If you watch the news and one movie you also reach 3 hours.
I watch 30 min in the morning while getting ready (usually late night shows from the previous day - mostly listening), 30 minutes to an hour during lunch (LTT, MKBHD, other tech channels or maybe a car review) and a longer session in the evening when the kids are in bed (documentaries or chess tutorials, or programming content, or something longer/more in depth where I can dedicate my full attention).
I don't find it really unhealthy, works for me.
Ukraine doesn't gun down shelters and cafés full of civilians and parades mutilated bodies of tourists through the streets.
That's why people support Ukraine and criticize Palestine.
Or maybe they are sharing the family plan with 2 other people and rounding up. Or they have a different plan. Or they live in a country with different prices and converting to usd. Or a handful of other reasons that doesn't involve conspiracy theories.
In what world Craigslist is honest and Alphabet is circling the drain? They make billions of profit per quarter and they have majority control of the biggest two platforms worldwide (mobile and web). We are not in the wild west years of the early web. It will be decades before Meta or Alphabet collapse, in favor of TikTok or a similar, or even worse, competitor. Mastodon and lemmy are an exception and a niche, not a rule.
Wishing something very hard doesn't make it true.
Every time Netflix rises prices it makes it to the news (let alone all the drama on twitter/reddit/etc), I don't know what frog boiling you're talking about.
It can. But the average impact is still positive.
Two wrongs don't make a right
ICQ, peasant!
I'm sure you'll change their views. Godspeed!
He can do "science"!
Internet connection required for single player mode.
Elon... Tusk?
Is the German tourist also a settler?
People's Front of Judea, you splitter!
#cheese
I'm sure using hours of 4k bandwidth while getting nothing in return is a great deal for alphabet... 🙄
Bandwidth is EXPENSIVE. If you are not clicking on the ads and not even watching the ads, every minute you use the site is costing them money. They are just optimizing costs by cutting all "leechers".
YouTube doesn't need "exposure" or to "convince investors of an active user base". They don't need to keep users that cost them money because they have enough users already. They are well into the "monetization" phase.
Another Russian Warship fucked itself?
I pay for Youtube, but I'm clearly in the minority. Look at all the pitchforks in this thread not willing to pay one cent or watch one ad but demanding the content...
People (including myself) are criticizing Israel EVERYWHERE ad nauseam. Bringing UN resolutions (vetoed by the US), protesting on the streets, ranting on the internet, wearing t-shirts, donating to NGOs...
Everybody knew Russia would wage war on them, there were satellite images published for weeks before Feb 24th, which of course Russia denied. Is /r/RussiaDenies a thing on lemmy yet?
Same here. Had already tested lemmy on web, but an app is more convenient.
Where in the world is Tesla a status symbol? Because I bought my M3P because I couldn't afford a BMW i4 M50, let alone a iX or EQS/EQE AMG. The BMW is similar size and performance and costs 30% more.
I still like it, but it was the compromise option.
Cars devaluate around 50% every 3 years, so if you bought a 3 year old car instead of new, you could swap it every 7 years for the same cost. And if it holds some residual value, even more often than that...
Some manufacturers even offer warranties on 3 year old leasing returns.
My github profile is under my real name, so no thanks. Won't be giving my social security or credit card numbers either.
Look, we didn't read past the title on reddit, we're not gonna start now.
Going through SEC filings is not on my hobby list.
How do I install it on my TV? How do I sync? Do I install on every device I use? What if I don't have admin rights? What if it's out of date and the ads play anyway?
For less than a Starbucks coffee I have a month of premium, and I don't have to play cat and mouse.
I love KDE's "extract here, autodetect folder" feature for compressed files