GrayJay chads keep winning for now
100% this. I love the fact that it aggregates from multiple platforms all into one Youtube-esque layout. I can have my curated lists from YT, Odyssey, and Rumble all in one (but not Twitch because I'm not a faggot). It occasionally has some glitches, but they're relatively minor, it has worked consistently since I downloaded it, and any little bugs are well-worth not having to risk getting the Kennedy-level brainworms from the modern YouTube ad "experience". And best of all, no YouTube shorts clogging up my feed! If
@larossmann and his company made a version of it available for more than just Android, (and didn't risk getting his channel deleted just for merely mentioning GrayJay...
) it would be a worldbeater.
That's also why piracy is not only justified and neccessary, but also virtuous.
I agree to a point. If there is a product or service thst a company no longer supports or makes available, then I believe that it's morally justified to sail the digital seas to get what you want. No Nintendo, I'm not going to fork over more money to you to play Super Mario Bros. on yet another platform. It's been the same fucking game for 30+ years. You've already made your money from it, and even by the pathetically watered down US software laws, I'm entitled to have a backup copy of the software that I own. If you don't provide that, I'll source my own. And I'm not going to fork over a yearly tithe to Adobe, just because some jew faggot in the C-suite figured out a way to make a product that was already paid for into a "service as a subscription". I'll check out C-net, or more likely, a branch of 1filchier via TOR to get a cracked perpetual license that doesn't need a key.
HOWEVER, I do feel that paying for a legitimate product or service is well worth it. GrayJay is a perfect example. In the months that I've had it, it's already more than paid for itself just in not having to deal with the advertising bullshit. Louis Rossman has talked somewhat about this on his channel, but even he uses ad blockers, and he's a monetized channel, so it would be hypocritical for him to tell his subscribers to not use one, so he can get a few cents revenue. And I think that if everyone were to just pirate an actually good product and not pay for it, that would only hurt us in the long run, because the people who make these things will be less inclined to do so if everyone is just gonna steal it anyway.
And I forgot who was asking about paying for GrayJay, because I didn't quote, but if you go to your settings tab and scroll down, the option to pay is in there.
Never forget that nobody, not even the scumfucks in Congress, likes ads, and doing shit like this has been proven to be one of the very, very few ways to get them off their lazy asses, unite, and actually do something.
I don't disagree, but never underestimate the power that
legalized bribery lobbying has on Congress. After all, remember that the US is one of only two countries in the world that allow direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs.
What I don't understand is why ads are so valuable. I have never seen a YouTube ad for a product or a service I would give any amount of money to. Who is buying what these scummy companies are selling on YouTube and are they really buying enough to justify selling the ads with such fervor? Seriously, has anybody here purchased something from a YouTube, banner, or pop-up ad? Is it boomers?
The true value is the data that they get from you, and how they can package and sell that to other data harvesting groups.
Tidal is the perfect music app for Brooklyn hipsters and SF tech homosexuals.
Spotify is "good enough" for 99% of people so it dominates. I get Spotify though a weird plan i was grandfather in at less than the old and new Premium rate. lol
And here I am just listening to Pandora premium. Admittedly it might be less capable thsn those, but it's ad free and unlimited skips, and one of the very few "subscription" things that I pay for.
Meh, get with the times.
When your TV or fridge breaks, do you open it and start pulling out compressors and cathode ray tubes? Or call the TV/fridge repairman?
Nope, you buy another one because it’s a commodity.
Cellphones and computers have increasingly become commodities too.
You may not like it and miss the days where you could open your inch thick laptop and replace the RAM yourself, but those days are gone. People voted with their wallets and CHOSE this.
(Yeah yeah, people are morons and don’t know what’s good for them etc. etc.)
Now the part that’s REALLY goddamn retarded is when one of these Stallman types buys an iPhone instead of some chunky ass nerd phone and goes. “HUUUHN?!? I was told numerous times before I bought it that I can’t change the screen myself. Why can’t I change the screen myself?! This is OUTRAGEOUS!”
Just get a repair friendly phone lil nigger, instead of whining about Apple making phones the way the market likes it.
Well good luck finding one for one thing.
All/most of them (depending on where you are) went out of business a long ass time ago, since people rather pay 350$ for a new fridge instead of spending 150$ in parts and 50$ labor for fixing an old one.
Just wait. If electric cars succeed on a mass scale, they’re going to be the next mass market consumable that won’t/can’t be fixed. (Aside from tiny things like a headlight that isn’t working.)
Ok, faggot, I can tell that you've never actually had to work to achieve anything in your life. You're either an inexperienced bughive dweller, mommy and Daddy has always supported you, or you're an actual kid. For one, the whole "throw away and CONS00M!" mentality is what has fucked up the world in the first place. Manufacturers have cheapened and cut costs for decades, to the point where, yeah that "$350 refrigerator" might look like a good deal to the customer, but it'll only last 5-7 years tops. And that's the shit that has killed the 3rd party repairman. It's not the customer being unwilling to fix things, or the repairman not being competent, it's the shitty, planned obsolescence and artificial scarcity of parts in order to push CONS00M NEW! because the profits mist always go up.
You might view things like refrigerators, computers, or TVs as commodities, but they
didn't used to be commodities. Customers, and to some extent manufacturers, used to actually take pride in what they had, and people actually worked to maintain and repair their things instead of throwing them out. I think it's a symptom of society as a whole, because if nobody takes pride in anything, and everything is viewed as disposable, then we really don't have a good foundation for ourselves.
Since YouTube is the main subject of this post, I suggest you go on there and look up old refrigerator videos. There are countless videos of classic refrigerators from the 1950s and 1960s that are still working today. Big, huge units with massive handles, gleaming chrome trim, and heavy doors. And they've probably been sitting in grandma's kitchen, or your uncles garage for 60+years, just chugging away. I highly doubt that any modern computerized IOT enabled smart fridge will be functional in 20 years, let alone 50+.
Oh, and enjoy your fantasy about "tiny things" like headlights being something easy or cheap to fix...
Try $1100 for just one headlamp assembly...
