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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They do random testing. I've received one of these a couple of times with unlock as well. Google/yt has not fully committed.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hope they don't commit. But if they do, I guess that'll be the end of YT for me...

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah you and a lot of people. There's a couple articles about it but essentially there's some talk of pushback.

And personally for me there are alternatives that people could use. While not a lot of people are on it, peertube is a viable alternative. I've watched a couple of small creators on it and it ha good performance. Just a very small audience.

Makertube is one of my favorites.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes I have to use YouTube rawdog for work and it's unusable, if I want to skip forward in the video to reach the solution to my problem I get an add every time I click the timeline.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you need it for work, why don't you have YouTube premium?

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't speak for the person you are asking, but for me the reason is that google is evil, and huge. They don't need my money, and I wouldn't pay them for any reason.

I expect that if the workplace officially needed to use YouTube, then that workplace would be paying for that subscription. But if its just that sometimes someone wants to include video from YouTube in a presentation or something - then probably not.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

The way they worded it, it sounded like dealing with YouTube was their job, like maybe managing a company's YT account. So yeah, I totally expect a company to pay for YT premium. I'm certainly not suggesting they do it, unless they're a freelancer or something.