• GeekFTW@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Dear Youtube,

    I’ve been using you daily since before you were bought by Google. I have watched undoubted millions of youtube videos over the last 17 years.

    The mother fucking nanosecond you start blocking me from watching your content because I have an ad blocker is the moment I sit here and just rip every each and every single mother fucking video I want to watch to view entirely offline. Given you’ve tried and failed for a decade now to stop us from doing that I trust it’ll solve both our needs, you won’t have me blocking your ads, and I won’t need to ever see em. Savvy? Savvy!

    With a level of spite indescribable,

    Me.

    Edit: For those whining about my entitlement: QQ more idc.

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      I mean… ‘oh no a person who doesn’t watch our ads is going to not watch our ads’

      Not sure they’ll care about the ‘loss’’

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        Then they logically wouldn’t have cared about the adblock in the first place…? Although I’m intending to go back to doing the same and it’s not about whether I make them sad or not. It’s a quality of life thing.

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          I mean they care about adblock because it blocks their ads… They don’t expect people to know beyond just using adblock

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      Don’t wait! We need to all start ripping videos and sharing in torrents. We have to back up all the educational quality videos.

      Just like with shows / movies, it’s time to start hoarding because things will only get worse.

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        Oh trust me my 30TB of HDD’s and ADHD already got started on the data hoarding front many a year ago. Haven’t had a paid subscription to anything since Netflix in 2014 lmao.

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      undoubted millions of youtube videos over the last 17 years

      4 million would be just over 644 videos watched every single day for each one of those 17 years.

      I salute your dedication.

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      I’m having a bad, bad, day

      It’s about time that I get my way

      Streaming whatever I see

      oh, indescribable me

      I’m having a bad, bad, day

      If you block my ad blocker that’s not okay

      Watch, this is so fun to see

      oh, indescribable me

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      1 year ago

      How can you feel this level of entitlement - surely you should just be grateful for the 17 years and millions of videos you have been able to watch for free?!?!

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      1 year ago

      qq more yourself - you are the one bitching about a company not subsidising your free-loading ass.