cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40372957

fyi:

  • https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp lets you download videos (from youtube and also hundreds of other sites)
  • for desktop, https://mpv.io/ is free and lets you watch youtube (or any other video) at even more and faster speeds than youtube premium does, among many other features
  • for android, https://newpipe.net/ lets you play youtube in the background (and download videos, and block ads, …)
  • https://ublockorigin.com/ blocks ads everywhere (and yes it does still work on youtube, at least in firefox anyway)
  • 1984@lemmy.today
    23·
    2 days ago

    Lucky to get anything? YouTube couldnt even have grown at all if it was a paid product from the start. People made it into the success it is, by using it, because it was free.

    Now when its a monopoly, they do a bait and switch.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      19·
      2 days ago

      So because they started off offering something for free they owe us? Its still free, there has been no bait and switch.

      • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        Yeah. They owe us, they owe their content creators, they owe the tax payers who built and power the platform upon which their platform sits. They sure ain’t paying their fair share.

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Some artists making content are practically their own little PBS stations or something, I’m with ya!

          Would it be more palatable if they told us using adblock w/o premium was “robbing creators of one-hundredth of a cent each time” or something? If I’m not mistaken there is a connection between content creator payouts and that.