I’m curious what people would prefer for revenue generation models. Just subscription fees? A lot of folks also seem resistant to that as well.

What they had like 10 years ago a couple ads here and there. Not 5 minutes ad 5 minutes ad 5 minutes ad 5 minutess ad.

I would happily pay for yt premium, if that also meant that google does not violate my privacy and sell my data.

Direct sponsoring has worked in the past with many open source projects (including lemmy.world). Could be closer to what Patreon does.

Then I suppose it's a good thing they're limiting non-premium users from using the "high bitrate" quality options?

^ that was sarcasm. HARSH sarcasm. With both middle fingers pointing toward a Google logo and spitting.

That's true but I wouldn't really classify this as evil.

Serving videos isn't easy or cheap. It's hard and expensive.

I obviously use an adblocker everywhere and so should you.

But saying that Google or anyone else is doing anything wrong by blocking adblockers is ridiculous. When they finally succeed, I will just accept that I finally lost after many many years. My usage of YouTube will likely go down substantially as well.
Crying about it after you have used their service for free for YEARS, really makes no sense.

That’s my problem, you have to be logged in if you pay and that’s just more data for them to suck up.
I watch not logged in. If I want to comment I use a different device.

Does grayjay rehost content from YouTube or are they using the YouTube backend for streaming video?
I would be quite annoyed if anyone used my website as a host for content that's being consumed on another website.

A few years ago (and to a lesser degree nowadays) you occasionally came across images which wouldn't work if you "hotlinked" to them on another website. Images aren't a huge deal anymore but video absolutely is.

I would prefer a model that does not demand infinite growth, leading to ever declining quality and services. I would prefer a tech site that’s satisfied bringing in a comfortable and steady flow of profit.

Nestlé: I have done nothing wrong, ever, in my life.

Welcome back to 2007

Yes they did! See right above or direct link https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19270078

Thanks, I'll have a look at this later and I'm sure it'll prove useful for everyone!

not many but there are

Invidious Instances - Invidious Documentation

The official Invidious documentation

(docs.invidious.io)

Interesting. I didn’t think anyone was cool with any ads.

All decent people would. I meant within the bounds of treason and tyranny.

Workaround got released, that same issue just updated itself to indicate that. Still shitty of Google to be going full Reddit like this though.

They don't host anything, they're just an alternate front-end that lets you download stuff.

Oh, uh, pass.

So it's wait a few seconds and watch a black screen or watch a minute of ads? What a choice...