Piped not playing videos · Issue #2809 · TeamPiped/Piped
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Official Instance The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related. Describe the bug For some reason the videos dont load and I cant watch piped. I primarily use piped cau...
  • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de
    2911·
    1 year ago

    I’m not going to be popular saying this but how is the service supposed to survive without a revenue stream? It takes a shit ton of bandwidth and storage to keep YouTube running, that ain’t free.

    I get that the ads are incredibly annoying but if you truly watch as much YouTube as some people in this thread are claiming, maybe it’s worth paying for it? I bit the bullet and for basically the price of my cancelled Spotify subscription I now have no ads in YT and an okay streaming service with yt music.

    Of course Google could do things better. And actually I think it would be important to have a competitor. But I wouldn’t expect that one to be free either.

    • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      291·
      1 year ago

      If youtube fixed their content ID system and stopped falsely demonitizing all the creators I watch then I would hapily pay for youtube red (or whatever they call it now). As it is though I’m not giving them my money just for them to pay copyright trolls with some of it. I’d rather give my money to noone than risk having some of it go to the people leaching off the completely broken content ID system.

    • SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      How many people are using Piped, revanced, or the like? I doubt it is the majority. This move is highly likely more greed than anything.

      Does Google care about our user experience? The short answer is no. Look at the intrusive ads, how long they are, them suggesting DRM, right wing pipeline, and more.

      Look at how they treat their content creators. Demonetization, channel and copyright strikes, etc.

      The list goes on. Youtube should and needs to be public. Internet is a utility and needed to survive by everyone. A video hosting service like Youtube is needed as well. Through every perspectice, Google is, ultimately, wrong in doing this.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Leave us nerds an opening. The 99% that can’t figure out how to put in an adblocker should be able to cover us nicely.