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[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

South Korea for anybody wanting to ship the article.

Edit: I'm keeping it as is.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Haven't they suffered enough?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago
[–] And009 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's for Kim, everyone else can pay for it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Not where, with whom.

We ship this article with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

also what it used to cost, and what it does now, so you can skip the article for other reasons instead:

"YouTube’s annual subscription plan in South Korea was initially 10,450 won ($7.95 USD) per month for the web and 14,000 won ($10.65 USD) per month for Android and iOS."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

For Germany it was 11.99 -> 12.99€

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Do people actually read the whole AI generated article just to find out the country name?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been shipping South Korea and this article for years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Mmmh, South Korea and this article... so hot right now!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Use Revanced for your ad free YouTube needs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Louis Rossmann launched a new app Grayjay, which is to follow artists across platforms. It's YouTube ad free, has another comments layer without YouTube monetization, allows downloads and they are working on sponsor block. It costs $10 because they do not sell your data, but it works without paying too because they are not assholes. But they are worth it to get the 10 bucks imo. He's a strong fighter for right to repair, one of Google, Samsung and Apple's biggest enemy. Grayjay.app is the website to download. He has a video on it on YouTube explaining everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does anyone else get sketched out by louis rossmann?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

He's weird, but he has the right ideas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You know what I purchased that whenever I first saw it like 2 months ago and I forgot about it because it needed a little more polish I'll start using it again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i second this, more actual features for no extra money. (adblock, return youtube dislike, sponsorblock)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now if only there were a revanced for my TV...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

If you have an Android TV or Android box hooked to it, there's SmartTube, which is pretty much reVanced for the big screen. It works great !

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thankfully Firefox and adblocking is free.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They will probably block “non-certified” browsers soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Youtube's entire platform is built around dominance. It's the one-stop-shop for all "content creators."

They won't sacrifice that because it will make Youtube no longer synonymous with 'online video.'

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Firefox is like 3% of all internet browsing. Probably even less on YouTube. They can sacrifice a little bit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, that's a terrible business decision when you have a monopoly.

I can easily see you getting fired for even suggesting this. It just shows how out of touch you are with modern economics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is Google’s strategy. Haven’t you followed the manifest V3 debacle? They want to end ad blocking once and for all. Their entire business model is to sell ads. They want to turn that ad blocking crooks into sweet new ad revenue. Maybe even subscription revenue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, but google won't sacrifice its monopoly to show people more ads. Hence why they, you know, haven't done it yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In what way are they sacrificing their monopoly? There’s no viable alternative to n YouTube.

They also restricted IE6 when it was far more dominant than Firefox is today (and when YouTube was far less dominant), so it’s not completely unheard of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But using the dominance of YouTube to influence the browser market is textbook anticompetitive, painting a huge target on themselves for regulators.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They can probably find loop holes, like saying they do support many alternative browsers like Edge, Safari, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, etc. . They just don’t want “insecure” and “outdated” browsers that support terrible stuff like ad blocking, but they can agree to support Firefox if Mozilla takes action to prevent “insecure” extensions like ad blocking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’d hope that would lead to FTC action, but that’s only if the republicans don’t win the presidency next year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And also EU DMA/DSA actions

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Slow news day in tech I guess.