Zuck Sucks

[Horace]

You have to be totally milquetoast to avoid the YouTube filters. Apparently you can’t even say “bully” out loud. Who knows how many other words are against the filter rules.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Zuck Sucks:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Zuck Sucks:

It's failing.

I think that might be over-stating it a tad. It's still the most visited site on the net.

It's not overstating anything. I'm talking about trajectory, not status. So, you're right for now. But they need to make moves or face some serious decline.

[Doctor Phibes]

I probably watch YouTube more than any single TV channel.

Yeah yeah, I know, OK boomer. My son probably watches it more than any other channel, too, and he's connected to all kinds of shit I know nothing about.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Zuck Sucks:

I probably watch YouTube more than any single TV channel.

Yeah yeah, I know, OK boomer. My son probably watches it more than any other channel, too, and he's connected to all kinds of shit I know nothing about.

I'm on it a lot, I've had to make shit for it, and know a handful of folks who made it a full-time gig. Those folks, by the way, were more than fine before, but all of them are making alternative plans now. Not one feels confident about the future on that platform.

[Copper]

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Zuck Sucks:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Zuck Sucks:

I probably watch YouTube more than any single TV channel.

Yeah yeah, I know, OK boomer. My son probably watches it more than any other channel, too, and he's connected to all kinds of shit I know nothing about.

I'm on it a lot, I've had to make shit for it, and know a handful of folks who made it a full-time gig. Those folks, by the way, were more than fine before, but all of them are making alternative plans now. Not one feels confident about the future on that platform.

To be honest, I don't really care. If it goes the way of Netscape and Yahoo, so be it. There'll always be another site.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Zuck Sucks:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Zuck Sucks:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Zuck Sucks:

I probably watch YouTube more than any single TV channel.

Yeah yeah, I know, OK boomer. My son probably watches it more than any other channel, too, and he's connected to all kinds of shit I know nothing about.

I'm on it a lot, I've had to make shit for it, and know a handful of folks who made it a full-time gig. Those folks, by the way, were more than fine before, but all of them are making alternative plans now. Not one feels confident about the future on that platform.

To be honest, I don't really care. If it goes the way of Netscape and Yahoo, so be it. There'll always be another site.

I'm looking forward to it, actually.

[Axtremus]

I signed up for YouTube Premium, to get rid of advertisements. YouTube is my most-watched video channel/platform. I may be the only one here who has a YouTube Premium subscription.

[George K]

@Axtremus I've been tempted.

All ads on all platforms are stopped (regardless of device)?

What's the cost - too lazy to look it up.

[Horace]

@Axtremus said in Zuck Sucks:

I signed up for YouTube Premium, to get rid of advertisements. YouTube is my most-watched video channel/platform. I may be the only one here who has a YouTube Premium subscription.

I have one. My favorite feature is that the video's sound keeps playing when my phone is on the lock screen.

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in Zuck Sucks:

@Axtremus I've been tempted.

All ads on all platforms are stopped (regardless of device)?

What's the cost - too lazy to look it up.

Yes, no ads on all platforms, provided you're signed in with the right Google account for which you have subscribed to Premium. $12/month if you sign up with Google directly via a web browser. (More expensive if you try to sign up via an iOS app because Google jacks up the price there to make up for the cut that Apple Inc. insists on taking for all purchases made through Apple's platform.)

[89th]

I found my ad blocker keeps most youtube ads away, which is nice. However when I watch youtube on my TV the ads are there.

We did subscribe to YouTube Music a few months ago since we listen to songs/music on our Google Home all the time, especially during dinner (and @LuFins-Dad you should know it's 90% Encanto or Moana songs), so it was nice to remove those ads between songs.