• rush@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Maybe we wouldn’t be so mad if their paid offerings weren’t worse than using an adblock or third-party download tools.

    For context, if you download a video you have to have been online on YouTube in a timespan of 3 days with YouTube Premium to actually watch it offline.

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      1 year ago

      They need to know you’ve actually paid for the content. Its the norm with streaming apps, even if the music is on your device it still needs to be authorized to actually play it. Otherwise you would be able to download as much content as possible within one billing period, cancel your subscription and enjoy hundreds of dollars worth of music for one monthly fee.

      Their paid offerings suck in more ways than this sadly. Youtube search sucks balls even if you pay for premium. They constantly ask you to watch their “shorts”, and small creators sometimes have a very hard time staying monetized because of bullshit that youtube makes them go through. It is partially our fault tho, collectively we watch the dumbest shit. Logan Paul had shitloads of subscribers and made a fortune because thats what normal prople like to watch.

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        1 year ago

        And even then I still have a worse experience than with yt-dlp and piped

        You’d hope they could come up with something better

        It’s just sad.