"the unthinkable"
Hyperbole much?
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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Unthinkable is signing up in the first place
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Was about to say the same. Unthinkable, I never even thought of subscribing in the first place!
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Here I am using firefox and ublock or newpipe, I haven't seen a youtube ad in years. 🤷
I only see ads when I go to a friends house and they have that on the tv app blasting 1min ads every 5minutes.
Introduce them to SmartTube for Android TV
They don't care. I've tried with Vanced, blockers, DNS, everything. They'd rather just watch the ads. Blows my balls off.
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FoRcInG uSeRs To CoNsIdEr ThE uNtHiNkAbLe
Fuck off bootlickers
Lol, piracy, the logical solution.
There isn't a single device in my home that shows YouTube ads.
I'll jump through any hoop before I give that shit website money.
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Dramatic much? Canceling a subscription is 'the unthinkable' now? For fuck's sake.
Not aiding capitalism by canceling a subscription = suicide
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable "Do I really need 300 subscriptions?"
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forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
.... Death???
Prostitution
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Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn't solve many of the problems that still exist:
- being shown the same content over and over
- Dislikes hidden
- in-video ads
- Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
- broken search results
- AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
- crypto spam
- Google-connected account using view history to spy on you
etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won't.
in-video ads
They do actually have an in-built skip for this. It's not as good as sponsor block though
They finally lost me completely when I loaded a music video marked "adult" for language and it demanded I upload ID on an account that was legally an adult.
I made that account in 1999, it's not even from this millennium, and they still derp out on it. I'm getting close to 50, at this point, and the only thing ads, age verification, and extreme right wing content on top of state sponsored disinformation campaigns will get you is a blacklist.
We should have seen it coming, I mean they used to have the "Don't be evil" motto, removing that was a declaration of intent.
I pay for YouTube and they wouldn't accept the card I pay them with for validation.
So I took a photo of someone in a YouTube video and they accepted it as me and hey now I'm verified.
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The 'unthinkable' of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?
How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
The unthinkable? lmao
me: can we have ad free videos with uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock?
google: we have ad free videos at home.
at home: YouTube Premium
Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won't you think of the corpos??
There is an assumption these people are making that I am not sure they are aware they are making. They are assuming the cost of running YouTube is increasing so the cost of YouTube premium needs to increase. Every public company is driven by maximizing share holder value, the goal is to extract as much money as possible from the user.
Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it's absurd and bad and all that.
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Now is the time for peertube to shine
I miss the days when companies would grandfather your price in, so price hikes only effected new users... Now days everyone pays.
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unthinkable? Coordinate an attack to kidnap families of high executives?
I'd gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.
At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.
But let's be honest, they're not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it's just 5-9's of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.
at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
Use a firefox clone and ublock?
(and linux, btw)
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tell me about it; I'm paying double for revanced now
Unsubscribing and installing UBlock Origin is perfectly thinkable. It also gets which side is the "dark side" wrong.
I I received the email today telling me that they were going to raise the price of my family plan by $4 per month. I'm guessing that their costs have not increased in any way, and probably have decreased. I assume it's just another squeeze tactic from the company that used to not be evil.
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Maybe because im a millennial but it's easier than ever to have all the music you could ever want downloaded and playing off local storage, idk i don't get it i guess it sucks listening to some online playlist and every few songs one is just stuff you'd never choose to listen to.
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