aksdb @ aksdb @feddit.de

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That's not easier than not needing a VPN in the first place.

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Piracy has never been easier or safer or faster than it is now

What?! It was way easier and safer in the era of Napster, edonkey and emule. Easy discoverability and companies didn't pay any attention yet. Since then it's a cat and mouse game.

That could help, but if a file is not shared that much (yet) or not many people are online at the moment, a single peer will still share many more parts, likely ending up with having shared significant amounts.

That is essentially how bittorrent works anyway. In Germany people lost in court over this. Also portions of a copyrighted file are a problem. If they can "proof" that they got a relevant portion (more than the typical fair use seconds) you are still on the hook.

Nice idea, but then everytime a video that contains anything licensed by the content mafia is uploaded (even partly), the user in question breaks that license opening themselves up to lawsuits.

In a perfect world where only properly free content is shared that model would work. But that is not how most content shared on YouTube looks like.

I would love to upgrade to one, but from tests I gathered that they have an exceedingly bad idle power draw. Given that the card would idle most of the time, I don't really want to waste power on it if nvidia and amd manage to stay far lower.

I wish there is a github FOSS script that does this for new windows builds.

https://github.com/topics/windows-11-debloat

Not everything can be done client side. Sending notifications or emails: server side. Basically anything that's automated.

My point was: they likely have to pay for licensed music to the content mafia, so they cannot really offer anything without including music in the pricing.

Music might really be their main problem. Basically every video has some music in it. If not in the foreground, then in the background. Even game soundtracks in Let's Plays are often under license. So the moment someone plays any such video, the content mafia comes around the corner with their baseball bats in hand collecting their tolls.

So I assume if they have to pay for music any way, they figured they might as well include a tailored music listening experience with Premium.

I don't want cloud storage. I want ad-free YouTube. And the price is not fit for what they offer (they are a damn content hoster and not motherfucking Netflix).

It's a double edged sword. If the actual devs are exposed too much, they get bombarded with shit from so many people who have no clue and/or just want to vent, that they would not be able to do their actual work or would even burn out from all the toxicity.

Unfortunately people with actual helpful input are so rare that it's likely not worth the hassle.

Would be cool though if the people triaging reports would have the knowledge to sort the wheat from the chaff. But same problem there: it's likely so rare to encounter these reports that it's not worth training people for it.

They also have different processes. Each report would start as a support request that goes through some customer care department or even call center first, that will triage the issue with some knowledge base or decision tree. So before a meaningful report makes it way to a department that can actually deal with it, a dozen other people are involved first.

That will be irrelevant when the control freaks take over. Case in point: anti piracy ads in the good old DVD/BluRay days. Unskippable shit that ironically only punishes people who bought legitimate media.

For the service they offer (the hosting basically) I am actually willing to pay quite a bit. But what they typically ask for (about €15 for a single account) that's just not worth it, given that YouTube isn't the producer of the content they serve. Music might be a bit more complicated thanks to the fucking idiotic way how licensing around that works. Anyway: nothing of that excuses the excessive use of ads they serve nowadays.

As others said: VPN. Ukraine seems to work good currently, since the Credit Card address isn't validated. Cheaper countries like India or Turkey now check if the CC you use is from that country. That is a bit more complicated to pull off, so that wasn't worth it for me.

But why? If you don't need moving parts, don't use moving parts. Simplicity is king.

I got fed up with this shit and invested a bit of time into getting a working Premium Family plan through a cheap country (Ukraine is about $4 per month). I invited my whole family (parents included) so essentially 6 people have an ad-free YouTube now for less than $1 each (per month). I assume that's still less than what they have gotten by serving us a shit ton of ads. And I am rid of that cat and mouse game for a while.

In episodic shows (crime, drama etc) it's also typically a give away if a role is played by a known actor.