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Comment by zozbot234

5 years ago

ITT: people complaining about a free service. Why not just pay for YouTube Red?

Oh, where do I start:

- I don't want music and there is no discount for that - I don't like random benign channel removals/strikes - I don't like censorship - I don't like copyright situation - There is not option to pay for family for whole year - They are getting closer and closer to killing rss support.

My setup right now is that I receive youtube updates into my newsboat. I run a macro if I want to watch a video and it goes into download queue and is downloaded by youtube-dl. It synthing-ed onto every single of my devices (including Emby) and then I watch it whenever I feel like, offline, no adds, no nothing, through a normal video player.

  • YT has a lot less censorship than most cable TV packages, all things considered. And "I never watch video category X, so I'd rather not pay for it" is neither here nor there, unless you'd rather have to pay a la carte for every single YT category you may want to watch in the future. Having a single payment for the service as a whole is just better.

It’s not really free though is it? It just doesn’t cost money.

  • Yes, I meant free as in free beer of course. I thought that was fairly obvious.

    (If you care about genuinely Free alternatives, they're out there but most people would have to self-host them.)

    • That’a just a very strange comment to make. Why is it commentworthy that people would criticize a product that they do make an exchange to use and that has gotten markedly worse over time?