I pay for it, also no ads except the sponsor plugs, which are pretty easy to skip. Overall a better experience than the non premium. I don't live in the USA so my cost is like $5/month.

It will still be relatively niche, people don't want to seed for hours and also don't want to pay

Vinegar seems awesome. Thanks!
Also, the dev’s other apps are pretty amazing too!

You can sideload up to three apps without a paid dev account, they just expire in 7 days. Use something like AltStore (or better yet SideStore) and you have an easy way to install and re-sign two other apps. They also have the ability to essentially “offload” apps so you can have more than two other sideloaded apps, but only two can be active at a time (other than the signing app)

So you're using SponsorBlock as well, or you're watching videos without sponsors.

It’s not pirating if you’re obtaining a video that they’re making available to you for free lmao.

Otherwise it would be “pirating” to just load up YouTube.com in your browser and watching any old video.

My understanding is that gaben has already put an action plan in place for when the company moves on from his leadership.

From what I've heard of it, the people in line behind Gabe will be upholding the same values.

We should have at least another ~40 years or more of this before sometimes entitled brat inherits the company and sells it off to a foreign interest.

With all that being said: long live gaben.

With all that being said: long live gaben.

I like Steam, I like that they aren't being dicks and treat users well. That said: billionaires are not your friend.
There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.

I didn't say there was.

I just want this specific billionaire to continue to live because, unlike most billionaires, he's not making my life more difficult.

He's basically refused to let steam become enshittified. Other billionaires would have long ago succumb to the one that they serve, the almighty dollar, and done whatever they can to extract the most value from their user base. Enshittifying the platform in the process, and actively making my life worse.

So as far as I'm concerned, when it comes to billionaires, gaben is far from the worst.

I have a short list of billionaires that kinda fit into the category of: I don't mind that they exist.

There's a much longer list of billionaires that I'd like to see pushing up the daisies.

Not that I can, or would, do anything to make that happen. I just, wouldn't hate it if it happened.

Fair enough. It isn't that they're better, it's just that they're less worse.