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Lesley Carhart 
Something very super cool about the #youtube ad blocking fiasco is that I actually PAY FOR YOUTUBE as I’m happy to compensate people for a service and use #adblockers as a crucial security tool, but since I have a bunch of different accounts and profiles to keep work and life separate, and they aren’t clever enough to figure that out or do feasible automatic migrations, I got to spend 6 hours painfully migrating 800 channel subscriptions by hand in hundreds of browser tabs. And it’s making me question subscribing to YouTube.
Taggart 
@hacks4pancakes uBlock Origin has been working hard to keep itself ahead of YouTube. You can track current status here: https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
Samofhearts@hacks4pancakes I've been paying for youtube and Nebula for years. I don't understand the hate. It isn't even expensive by streaming service standards.
@hacks4pancakes For those that don't want to pay because they don't want to support youtube. Look into peertube joinpeertube.org. I'd love it if peer tube took off and some of my favorite content creators also uploaded to peer tube. Open Source for the win.
@samofhearts I’m not sure how to restate that I pay for it and they absolutely still screwed me over.
Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 
@hacks4pancakes have you considered setting up your own Invidious instance?
@greg I have streaming solutions but it really doesn’t take the place of finding stuff in an advocacy way across multiple devices:
@hacks4pancakes I don't have much willpower so the lack of discoverablity is a feature for me 😅
Ichinin 
✅🎯🙄@hacks4pancakes Used to pay for youtube premium, back then it had Cobra Kai on - which was the ONLY beacon of quality among their sea of reality crap, but after season 2 they sold it off to Netflix and i suddenly realised that it wasn't worth it anymore.
Basically came down to this: Why am i paying for a Netflix service without any good movies (there are, but you have to buy/rent them) and lots of channels that don't monetize their content? I don't watch popular channels with twitch/youtube screamers or popularity channels that feed of ad revenue.
Altytwo Altryness, BS @hacks4pancakes ahh, the Cobra Problem.
Jason J. Thomas@hacks4pancakes How about the fun of paying for YouTube without ads and, wait for it, still getting ads? It pales in comparison to your migration pain, but I am starting to be annoyed at “Premium" not truly being premium anymore.
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@hacks4pancakes at this point, I see subscribing to youtube as being in the same ballpark as paying a ransom.
Every once in a while, you get to watch a video as proof of life. Just like receiving a severed toe or something. And then it's all ads and junk until you pay the ransom.
And it could all go wrong at a moment's notice if they decide "free ad tier" isn't lucrative enough. Then there'll be a paid "reduced ad tier".
bluGill@hacks4pancakes I make it a point to look for interesting content on peertube. There isn't much there, but I want to reward the few who put content there with my eyeballs. Hopefully enough of you do this (and spread the idea) that peertube catches on.
Kluthulhu' XOR 1=1--@hacks4pancakes Gotta be honest, I still use the RSS feed of channels. 😅
@hacks4pancakes I paid for the premium lite subscription, which was great because it gave me the 2 things I actually care about, no more ads and supporting the creators I watch. Now they have cancelled my subscription and told me I need to pay more than twice as much for a bunch of features I don’t even want 😞