Hi! sorry for the random topic 😅

Youtube keeps getting more and more annoying. Is there a good other platform where to migrate? If people were to migrate, where would they go?

the thing I liked about youtube is the massive amount of content, and knowing that if I upload a video, it’s really easy to watch by others. I like the ability to follow channels too.

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    1 year ago

    The only problem with this is that more and more channels are adding native ads to their vids, and YT Premium doesn’t bypass those ads

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      1 year ago

      That’s on the creators tho, not the platform I feel like it’s not an argument against paying for the platform, at least not when there are plenty of videos that don’t do baked in sponsor ads.

      Edit: if you exclusively watch content with baked in ads, I can see it from a purely consumer end point of view.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah but those ads are skippable whereas YouTube ads aren’t. I support YouTube creators having some control over their own income by adding native ads and not be yanked around by random YouTube policies.

      I tend to watch hour-long shows with in-depth analyses from viewpoints that isn’t mainstream, or in different languages from different countries, more than 5 hours per day, and YouTube premium is worth it to me.

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        1 year ago

        Fair point on creators having more control - some are just more obnoxious than others. I’m also subscribed to YT premium FWIW.

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        1 year ago

        SponsorBlock is brilliant. It’s also integrated into the excellent SmartTube app for Android and Android TV, which also hides the normal ads, even if you don’t have premium

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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah I was referring to YouTube on TV. Gotta try smarttube next, last I checked it didn’t exist then