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[King Zultan]

Don't pollute this thread with war stuff.

I am incredibly conscious of how much space things take up on hard drives as it has been the biggest lesson I've learned while archiving youtube channels, because the project slows down when the space gets low, then I have to get more discs before it can speed back up.

[Mathel]

I tried to watch a 2:47 video using the Youtube app on android.

First try, it plays a 15s unskippable ad and 8s of the video, then freezes.
Second try, it plays a 15s unskippable ad and 8s of the video, then freezes.
Third try, it plays a 15s unskippable ad and plays the video.

I try to move to a specific point in the video, the app instead jumps to another video and plays an unskippable 15s ad.
I go back to the original video, and the app plays an unskippable 15s ad and a 15s ad that pretends to be skippable but doesn't actually skip.

I try to comment on the video, and the app crashes.

In total, I had to watch 1:30 of ads on a 2:47 video and didn't even get to comment. Additionally, the video was stuttery while the ads were not, and while an ad was playing, and modification to sound volume was delayed by 5s.

So why is google trying to punish people for trying to watch Youtube in their own app?

[Kagus]

So why is google trying to punish people for trying to watch Youtube in their own app?

Because you're not currently also paying them for the privilege of watching. The worse of an experience they can make watching the free version, the more people will be incentivized to pay! A perfect business plan with absolutely no shortcomings!

[Eric Blank]

I watch Youtube in Firefox browser on my phone now, too. With ad block, because fuck that shit.

[Mathel]

So why is google trying to punish people for trying to watch Youtube in their own app?

Because you're not currently also paying them for the privilege of watching. The worse of an experience they can make watching the free version, the more people will be incentivized to pay! A perfect business plan with absolutely no shortcomings!

Except it risks that I will just stop using the app altogether and will only watch using an actual web browser. Which allows me to install adblock. Until now, when I was using an actual computer, I used Chrome with adblock. When using my tablet, I used the app. But since watching in the app is too terrible, I'll just install a third party browser on the tablet and watch through that.

[ChairmanPoo]

So why is google trying to punish people for trying to watch Youtube in their own app?

Because you're not currently also paying them for the privilege of watching. The worse of an experience they can make watching the free version, the more people will be incentivized to pay! A perfect business plan with absolutely no shortcomings!

Except it risks that I will just stop using the app altogether and will only watch using an actual web browser. Which allows me to install adblock. Until now, when I was using an actual computer, I used Chrome with adblock. When using my tablet, I used the app. But since watching in the app is too terrible, I'll just install a third party browser on the tablet and watch through that.

Just use newpipe

[King Zultan]

It seems like most of those apps that are made for websites you can access with a browser are pretty shit for some reason.

[lemon10]

So why is google trying to punish people for trying to watch Youtube in their own app?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/youtube-will-start-blocking-third-party-clients-that-dont-show-ads/
Good news! Our benevolent corporate overlords have thought of that, if they get their way soon you won't have to suffer the horrible weight of being able to choose not to watch ads by not using their amazing app.