A Boring Dystopia

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The world we live in isn't just dystopic, it isn't just stupid, trying to describe all the ways it sucks just makes for a really boring story.

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Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" (lemmy.nz)

submitted 8 months ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/aboringdystopia@mander.xyz

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40372957

fyi:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp lets you download videos (from youtube and also hundreds of other sites)

for desktop, https://mpv.io/ is free and lets you watch youtube (or any other video) at even more and faster speeds than youtube premium does, among many other features

for android, https://newpipe.net/ lets you play youtube in the background (and download videos, and block ads, ...)

https://ublockorigin.com/ blocks ads everywhere (and yes it does still work on youtube, at least in firefox anyway)

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[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 0 points 8 months ago

You are not owed free stuff.

Thank you. I have no idea why people are surprised that a service that costs hundreds of millions to run would start trying to monetize itself.

Youtube is as free to shutdown as it is to restrict access to its wares.