VPN's blatantly lying in youtube sponsors

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Funny seeing this thread as I was just watching some video and the author crammed almost 5 minutes of talking about his ''vpn of choice'' but I just skipped it and ignored it. If people are believing in everything they see online, that's on them, and honestly, they deserve what they get.
 
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SSF2T Old User said:
if you want to make money, stick a fucking patreon/subscribestar link in your channel, but don't be a fucking sell-out with this shit. This is on the same level of when YouTubers go "RATE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE!!!"
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And don't forget to hit the bell to get notified!
 
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WednesdayAddams said:
And don't forget to hit the bell to get notified!
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"... even though it doesn't work, because YouTube hates me, but I'm still going to BILLY MAYS THIS SHIT!! HA HA HA, AIN'T THIS LIKE A COMMIE GULAG, GUYS?! Even though there are other sites, I still pre fer to just take Susan's delirium tremens outbursts 'cause i hate myself!!"

Just FRO with that battered spouse act, Jesus Christ...
 
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Louis Rossmann made a pretty great video on this subject.

I really wish YouTube was like how it used to be. I'm sure we all do, I don't really need to say that, but YouTube is a lost cause in my opinion. I personally feel like this whole sponsorship shit that has cropped up over the past few years showcases that YouTube's move to corporatism is not only due to how YouTube has run the site, but how being a YouTuber has been presented as a 'career' by YouTubers themselves. Regardless if you see being a YouTuber full-time as a legitimate career or not, you can't deny that this type of mindset has brought in countless YouTubers who are just in it for the money. So much so, that everyone who used YouTube for all the traditional ways we remember back during the mid-00s to the very early 2010s, and continue to do so, have either been chased off the site or pushed deep underground. It even made a lot of prominent creators fall into that 'full-time career' trap. Now they rely entirely on YouTube and refuse to move on even when it isn't working out. They don't want to go back to normalcy or lose that e-fame, it's addiciting. It's just sad to see this happen to so many creators. They lose a connection of honestly and trust with their audience once they transistion into that.

You can't really gas the rats out of the site when it's already so infested with them at this point. You might as well burn the entire thing.
 
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SSF2T Old User said:
Can we all agree that Sponsors on YouTube in general is the worst fucking thing ever and a cancer of the internet?

The whole point of YouTube was to get the fuck away from TV and the ads they bombard us with in between the actual shows. Now it's like any YouTuber that's slightly famous (Cinemassacre, JonTron, Guru Lary, IHE, Wha Happun) begins/ends their shows (or sticks in between their shows) with fucking adverts. FUCKING NO! STOP THIS!! I just want to learn about shit that happened behind the scenes of a movie/videogame.

if you want to make money, stick a fucking patreon/subscribestar link in your channel, but don't be a fucking sell-out with this shit. This is on the same level of when YouTubers go "RATE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE!!!"
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Why not just internet sponsors in general? If you don't have adblock, they spam your browser to the point of it actually eating up your computer's memory. Doesn't matter if it's a mail-order shaving service, a porn site or an even more pointless pet project.

YouTube's got it worse, but it's far from the only example out there. Hell, the only reason I use a VPN in the first place is because I want to see YouTube videos that aren't "available in my country" and other minute stuff.
 
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Louis Rossmann made a pretty great video on this subject.

I really wish YouTube was like how it used to be. I'm sure we all do, I don't really need to say that, but YouTube is a lost cause in my opinion. I personally feel like this whole sponsorship shit that has cropped up over the past few years showcases that YouTube's move to corporatism is not only due to how YouTube has run the site, but how being a YouTuber has been presented as a 'career' by YouTubers themselves. Regardless if you see being a YouTuber full-time as a legitimate career or not, you can't deny that this type of mindset has brought in countless YouTubers who are just in it for the money. So much so, that everyone who used YouTube for all the traditional ways we remember back during the mid-00s to the very early 2010s, and continue to do so, have either been chased off the site or pushed deep underground. It even made a lot of prominent creators fall into that 'full-time career' trap. Now they rely entirely on YouTube and refuse to move on even when it isn't working out. They don't want to go back to normalcy or lose that e-fame, it's addiciting. It's just sad to see this happen to so many creators. They lose a connection of honestly and trust with their audience once they transistion into that.

You can't really gas the rats out of the site when it's already so infested with them at this point. You might as well burn the entire thing.
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A lot of these sponsorships popped up because youtube is very strict what get monitzed. Even if you have the "proper" content, if you're not in the clique or have wrongthing, you'll still get demonitzed. Youtubers wanna get paid for their work. That's where sponsers come in. Just hock our product and we'll give you that sweet dosh. There's patreon, but it has the same issues as youtube. If youtube didn't buckle to the hit pieces that caused the adpocalpyse, we might not be in this situation. Though, probably would be for different reasons.

Those emails Louis got remind me of this:
 
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Why not just internet sponsors in general? If you don't have adblock, they spam your browser to the point of it actually eating up your computer's memory. Doesn't matter if it's a mail-order shaving service, a porn site or an even more pointless pet project.

YouTube's got it worse, but it's far from the only example out there. Hell, the only reason I use a VPN in the first place is because I want to see YouTube videos that aren't "available in my country" and other minute stuff.
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That's the thing... the only people that DON'T use ad-blockers are normies/boomers who use Edge/Safari/IE as their default browser and both groups can get fucked cause they ruined the internet to begin with.

Of course even before "web 2.0" ads were an issue with the internet. No one is denying that, and anyone who grew up during the AOL Dial-Up days will agree to that. Hell, heaven forbid your Win95-Win2000 pc got infected, those pop-ups would NEVER go away (especially if you had one of those "buddies" or "strippers" in the bottom corner of the screen).

The difference between back then and now is that corporations and companies are more hands-on than they ever were many many years ago and see the internet as a golden goose to lay golden eggs for them, and they will stop at nothing to make sure that goose keeps laying eggs. And the worst part is that a lot of sites bend-over backwards for them. That's why every year or two when someone invents a way to circumnavigate these problems (such as ad blockers, sponsor blockers, and blockers that show that annoying "this site uses cookies" notices), newer ways to throw those same annoyances at you appear, as if these corporations and companies are one step ahead of you. Back then, the only issues were that Windows as an OS was vulnerable to fucking EVERYTHING, and AV software weren't as strong as they are now (although that last part is subject to opinion).
 
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I never trusted NordVPN when their ads and sponsorships came out of nowhere with heavy pushing, it sounded too good to be true and I'm glad to be proven right.
 
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tehpope said:

Unless you're pirating shit or just uber paranoid, you probably don't need a vpn. The only valid reason I can see is if you travel a lot and only have access to free wifi spots and don't want your info leaking. There's free ways of being safe online.
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Or you're on Kiwi Farms and every IP address you've used recently can end up posted to the Internet, as actually happened. This usually shouldn't be a big deal but suppose you have a residential IP address and a school IP address in the list and the school is small and so is the region your residence is. Congratulations you just got doxed.

(Unsurprisingly most those IP addresses. . .were VPNs.)
 
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