I’m just gonna watch YouTube on a computer without a webcam. Now this will prevent them from doing shit like this.
"We didn’t detect a Webcam on your device. You can only watch videos on devices with a Webcam. Do you want Premium*? Click here for only 29,99 per month.
*With Premium you also only can watch videos on devices with a Webcam"
This is only 2025, a year later they also want a list of the people you love the most so they can kidnap one to demand you buy Premium, which will mean they will get you premium looking ads instead of shitty looking ads.
alternatively: Please wait 2 days for the new GoogleCamPro we have shipped to arrive. Please note that without a Google Premium subscription your webcam feed will have ads in it
Premium lets you watch ads with up to 4 blinks per ad without pause or a total of .4 seconds of looking away from the ad without pause.
“Looks like you’re masturbating. Get a bonus month of premium if you climax during an ad.”
Your bonus month of premium for climaxing during an ad is almost over! Continue premium or we will show the video of you to everyone you know.
Someone will find a way to take a looped video of them watching their computer intently and feed it through their webcam. The ad battle will never end.
I need the dude in the video to talk with me if I want a webcam.
Oh, let me guess, I also have to have a microphone as well so that I can’t be allowed to express discontent over an ad?
Yes, you need a microphone, and allow them access to your bank account. If you didn’t smile, vocally approve AND purchased the ad content you will be punished by 12 tripple ads instead of 4 double. Saying anything bad about Google or YouTube and you will get an automatic double priced Premium subscription for 6 months. This effect stacks. It will also not give you less ads. Refusing to watch any video on YouTube anymore will cost you your first born child.
What if I still don’t have a child?
Kid or kidney, your choice
I’d rather keep my kidney.
This will be the death of YouTube for me. I pay for YouTube premium so this day may never come for me.
That didn’t keep Amazon from adding ads to the paid version of Prime and making a higher paid tier. How much easier is it for Google to implement the same?
And when that happened I stoped watching prime and just put on my eye patch & tricorn 🏴☠️…
Though I’m still paying for the content I just watch it differently than intended 🤷♂️
Seeks like a bunch of us chose to do the same. These companies actually believe there is no end to what they think they’re entitled .
How much easier is it for Google to implement the same?
The correct question is actually “when will Google implement the same?” Because this is a “when will it happen” question, not a “will it happen” question.
I pay for YouTube premium
Not as bad as paying for Twitter, but close.
The biggest reason I pay for it is supposedly creators I watch get paid significantly more than someone who sits through ads without skipping. I also don’t really watch regular TV.
supposedly creators I watch get paid
I mean, that’s why I’m on Patreon. But fuck YouTube.
Yeah, I know it’s not an excuse but I’m lazy and this guarantees even the individuals I watch irregularly gets their share. I’ve heard it even pays out if it’s demonetized (don’t take my word on that one though.)
I know it’s not an excuse
Your heart is in the right place. YouTube’s just isn’t.
You never know, they might produce a YouTube Premium Plus plan or something.
Again it would be dead to me if it happened. I wouldn’t pay more for what I get now.
Empty words, you would pay them whatever they demand of you, and you know it.
Nah, I have my limits. I have a movie server and most of my favorite shows, I’m gonna be fine.
What about 1 BILLION DOLLARS ?
You never know, streaming happened like that
And that’s why I don’t pay for steaming services, I buy DVDs and put them on my server. Don’t ask me what happens when I can’t buy a DVD/blueray.
There’s dozens of us. Dozens!
I love the clarification, I was got for a moment there
User experience approaching something like the Clockwork Orange - Movie Theatre Scene, with eyes forced open to watch horror with Beethoven music in the back ground.
Just cranking up the volume so loud you can’t hear yourself think.
Drink verification can
“WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card”
Sadly it will, and I’ll ahve to stop using it since I mostly use it to listen to stuff while I’m at work
this is why we have to invest in things like pipeline now
What is Pipeline?
It’s NewPipe.
How many people would be unable to use youtube because they have a broken camera or dont want youtube to access their camera
YouTube requires these permissions, please enable them to continue
They can always buy Premium for 299.95 per month.
it would just completely fail to recognize certain facial features, and there’d be jack shit people could do about it.
Finally, all those years of under investing in the ability to detect darker skin tone pays off
People with broken cameras have no money and their data isn’t worth selling.
To the tech ghetto you go.
Why not give credit to the artist?
Soren Iverson https://www.instagram.com/soren.iverson?igsh=eGd3d3N5dzc0ZDYy
Credit where it’s due indeed. This also reminds me of Black Mirror, I think it was season 1 with the talent show auditions.
15 Million Merits
I found this on Twitter and didn’t know who made it, but thanks! They’re credited now :)
They may have had it past on through a billion people before they posted it here… Is the most likely answer.
Thanks for sourcing it though!
Maybe, Soren only posted it for the first time 13 hours ago tho…
Dailymoition still exists at least.
And Peertube.
+1 for PeerTube
Funny stuff, but in reality I hope they realize that if all the free users leave, that could get a lot of content creators to branch out, and they could also take the paid users with them.
I pay for premium because I watch YouTube all the time, multiple people in my house watch it on multiple devices, and we even get use out of YouTube music. It’s worth more to me than all other streaming services combined. But I’m there for all the creators and the content they put out, not for anything else unique about the YouTube experience. All they have on their side is install base, infrastructure cost, and inertia. Those are big things to overcome, but if they drive enough people away things could definitely change.
Just wait until the enshitification of premium because they’ve fleeced the free users as much as they can.
Hahaha watching an Otomatone cover of Take On Me. Worth watching the ads!
I’ll shift to peertube for good once I can afford my own server
laughs in newpipe