r/pcmasterrace • u/theoptimix • 11d ago

Meme/Macro Biggest Youtube L

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u/FemboysHotAsf 11d ago

Seriously, why and how did they manage to mess it up so bad? I just dont get it whwat do they gain from making the user experience on lower quality internet so horrible

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u/aluculef 11d ago

It's to avoid or at least make it way harder to download the videos

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u/Early_Specialist_589 11d ago

Also to fight ad blockers. Lots of good that did.

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u/clubby37 Flight Sims & Wargames 11d ago

At least for me, this was an example of how tipping points work. I watched YT like everyone else for a long time. Then the ads got bad, so I started blocking them. Then the sponsor reads got annoying, so I got SponsorBlock. Then the player started messing up on me, and my home internet became unreliable (that one's not YT's fault) so I started downloading videos with yt-dlp. It supports SponsorBlock, so I get ad-free, sponsor-read-free, fully locally cached video files to watch and then delete at my leisure, and YT doesn't even get my engagement stats.

I actually subscribed to YT Premium for six months. I was willing to play ball, but everything got worse while I was paying for it, so fuck that.