Stop using YouTube.

I actually pay for YouTube premium. I know, I'm the literal devil according to some people on here.

It's just that I like to watch a lot of cooking shows, infotainment, and long form visual essays on a couple of niche topics pertaining to my profession and YouTube happens to have a great cross section of that kind of content. And, if we're being honest, I've gotten old enough where it's just a huge waste of my time trying to get to the experience I want via hacks or workarounds. Specifically, an ad free one.

YouTube, Curiosity Stream and a usenet provider are the only subscriptions I pay for and I'm quite happy with what I get for ~$20 a month. To each their own though.

I originally got YT music which came with YT Red. I don't like the price increases, but I have a family plan and 4 of the 6 spots are friends that pay me for access. It costs my wife and I about $6 a month for unlimited music streaming and ad free YT. I don't have any problem paying for content as long as it's accessible and not overly priced. YT isn't free to run so Google has to make money somehow and that's either ads or premium memberships. Some of that goes to content creators that I spend hours watching weekly.
I've read about how some of the ad content is displayed on videos it shouldn't be, and some ads are overly intrusive, and that's not good. Also, I don't agree with many of Google's practices as of late. That sucks, but until there's a better option with the content I want to watch at a price I'm willing to pay around, I'll happily pay my dues.
- Wait till they spill ads in premium as well
How are those “experimental” Ai features?
- I don't see a point in them. Why would I want to talk with a chat bot about the video I'm watching? Why would I care about YouTube comment summaries when YouTube comments are some of the lowest quality I've come across? These aren't 'features' that I'd pay for specifically.

This is a bad thread.

Not because it's a popular/unpopular opinion, but because OP is needlessly being a dick.

Right, right, it's me that's the dick. Not the people defending youtube as the sole proprietor of all user generated video content.
- Correct.

where content

Anyone know where else to find good tutorials and lectures?

Textbooks can be great. Somewhere around undergrad level they get way more helpful and interesting. Dunno why they suck so much throughout grade school.
Not youtube... only speaking from my own personal experience here.
- Where else would you recommend finding video tutorials/lectures?

Learn to youtube, noob.

I don't think you get it. I rather not.
- Are you gonna say why not or are you just here to bitch? There are a littany of valid reasons to not like YouTube but in this entire thread I've not seen you say a single one.
- Why should I care that you can't find good content and can't block the ads?

Can't. That's where they keep CarTube. I have to keep 5 hoopty-as-fuck vehicles on the road.

only 5? you drive your sunday car twice or something?
- Family of 5, the youngest has their permit. I have two trucks, one for work, one "retired work" that used to haul and tow loads and loads, it's my old man project instead of buying a Mustang or something.
  All of them have something wrong with them at all times, for some fucking reason. No show stoppers right now, but it's a constant flow in and out of the garage for repair or mod. So I guess it'll be 6 when the youngest gets one.
  Keeps the repair bills low and it's a hobby.

Free YouTube sucks just like anything else with ads, but YouTube doesn’t. Everybody wants everything for free these days with no contribution. YouTube is only as good as its creators. If you don’t like anybody on it… yeah it sucks I guess.

I'd pay $50 a month if they didn't track, mine, and profit off my data. It's more than the service, it's how they treat their customers.

I like watching reruns of anime catgirls backflipping to memes though, what's the alternative?

Maybe try PipePipe? It is based on NewPipe.
I don't know. The world's a big place, maybe anime cat girls backflipping to memes does not have to be sequestered to youtube.

But I like being bullied by roleplaying ASMR egirls..

Sorry, maybe someday modern science will find a cure.

Make me.

- Like and subscribe.

I honestly answer surveys and have done so for a decade. YouTube doesn't give me long ads. I can watch hours of YouTube without long, annoying ads. It's a combination of choosing the correct content (nobody forces anyone to watch aggressively monetized content) and prioritizing results over ego (honestly answering the surveys vs lying on surveys to stick it to Google.)

I don't care about users that make fragmented, entitled arguments, or who go out of their way to destroy their own UX by trying to sabotage systems. Until we nationalize YouTube and use taxes to fund hosting and moderation, YouTube is pretty great all things considered.

Just my own unpopular opinion.

30 seconds is long ad
- How long are the ads for you?
  Here's a decently monetized channel: https://youtu.be/RQYuyHNLPTQ?si=hyPgA09h5nXISkvy
  I got one 15s unskippable, one skippable after 5s.
  Here's a corp channel: https://youtu.be/ikcfhhqdDYI?si=b-mIAY34UfEqZ_AQ
  First time I got one 15s unskippable, next time one skippable after 5s.
  If I watch things on a friend's account the ads get much longer.

But that’s where Hermitcraft is

I look for content on peertube, but all too often come up empty.

The thing about alternatives is you need to use them to build content. It's a catch 22 for sure, but the answer isn't just give in.
- How do content creators make money on these alternatives? It's a noble idea to get away from big corp, but someone has to foot that bill, so it's either ads or subs. Nobody had a platform that rivals YT except for probably PH, and that's not a real option.

It does, but YouTube ReVanced? Whole other story.

That's like not pulling out vs pulling out.

Unpopular decision: get YT Red and enjoy. Works for me.

Lol, I like your response. I also like its getting down voted.

duck you I don't do what you tell me

Quack yourself

I discovered PeerTube today. I'm thrilled about it.

VHS.

Only the vast majority of it sucks

TILVids.com is a good instance to start using PeerTube.

Unfortunately, like it seems all PeerTube instances, it's not federated with much. I do understand why they're all siloed but it makes PT kind of a non-starter for actual normal users so they all just use Mastodon instead.