I do wish there were more services like nebula one yearly fee no baked in ads or ads at all and more creators are willing to join them.

The thing that sucks with youtube premium is you still have creators dumping 1 min long sponsors ruining the experience. Additionally often only way these creators allow you to go add free is via patreon, floatplane, etc which can get quite expensive if you follow 30-50 channels. The only other viable route is sponsorblock which works great but requires modified youtube clients/browser extensions and with youtubes new video adinjection could potentially be broken.

The only part I do wonder with nebula is how well it works for larger creators.

Linus Media group revenue break down

https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=532

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If your willing to deal with self hosting, immich is a great alternative. Its facial recognition and search is practically on par with google photos.

The only downside is it doesnt’ have photo editing, and its under active developmeant (it gets weekly updates and you occasionally need to modify docker config though they do give a warning in ui).

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

I do wonder how this compares to current payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, etc)

I have a fire tv cube just direct launch into apps to avoid this. For example instead of powering on the fire tv with power button I tell Alexa to open the app I need.

Down side is this doesn’t really work with sieloaded apps like smart tube

Only time I every encountered the popup was when I used orion with its built in adblocker. And even then I gat one warning (no metion of 3 strike policy). Only change now is the added a 3 second timer to the dismiss button.

Edit: Ublock origen and firefox as usual no issue

Silly question if you don’t mind me asking, when you got the pop up:

• Which browser/adblocker where you using (also did you use any custom filters)?
• What device are you watching youtube on when you saw the block (windows, macos, ios, android, linux)?
• Where are you located? (like which country)

I never saw these popups just curious.

Also my setups using a web browser (no issues):

• (Mac OS Soma) Firefox Stable with ublock origen stock filters
• (iPadOS 17) with adguard safari content blocker stock filters

Setups with third part clients (no issues):

• Revanced android
• Smarttube (Fire TV)
• YTLitePlus (iPadOS)

I do use sponsorblock 😅

Only gripe is your stuck to the web version of youtube (especially on ios).

If you want sponsorblock in the native youtube app you have to side load a mod which means either dealing with apple’s 7 day limit refresh or paying for a apple dev acount/ signing service subscription.

Android there is revanced (no sideloading subscriptions needed).

On a final note I am considering trying https://grayjay.app/

It bundles odessy, nebula, youtube and a few other platforms in one app (it also includes sponsorblock and return dislikes for youtube).

I know this isn’t YouTube’s fault but one thing that bugs me about yet premium is when creators dump baked in ads.

As a user you have 3 options:

1. Deal with it and manual skip (in a way this feels like skipping commercials on cable tv Dvr)
2. Get ready to buy a ton of patreon subscriptions (kills the point of getting yt premium).
3. Get a modded client/ use browser extensions and use sponsorblock

Now the one exception to this is nebula where like YouTube you pay an all access fee but no baked in ads (I pay for this currently).

I do wonder if creators had the option to make videos available via YouTube premium only (say early access and no baked in ads). Would more people pay and would creators use this system? (They wouldn’t have to worry about demonetization).

Curious on your thoughts

Few problems:

1. Safteynet (play integrity) and root detection

There are magisk tweaks to help combat this but its a annoying game of cat and mouse. Some apps like chase have particularly annoying root detection to deal with. Also regaring safteynet once google fully enforces hardware attestation passing safteynet with tweaks will be borderline impossible (most tweaks try to spoof older phones that don’t support safteynet hardware attestation).

2. Widevine

Many streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Disney, etc) will downgrade your video quality to 480p-540p due to L3 from unlocking the bootloader (a step thats usually required before you can root).

3. Physical security (potential risk)

Unlocking the bootloader is the first step to allowing for rooting and custom roms. One pro/con is when you unlock the bootloader you are partially at risk to a evil maid attack (some one with physical acess to your phone can compromise it). While difficult to do automatically (and probably very very rare) some one could hypothetically place a malicious bootloader that could steel data. The risk of this is mostly low but does exist.

Ah meant I meant 5x (bad math strikes again 😓)

Its a 4x price increase Sync pro for reddit was about $4 (USD), sync for lemmy is $22 to remove ads

Best reason would be if you were a reddit sync user in the past Lemmy sync would feel familiar.

It analogous to Apollo users feeling voyager similar (to an extent).

Is there a one time payment option to remove ads?

Dev said he will ad a ad removal feature

Glad to hear 👍

Edit image for those who are curious:

Found a handy script to minimize this:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/471718-lemmy-post-keyword-filter

The problem comes down to education institutions. I remember when we got Chromebooks in my highschool (8 years ago) admins forgot to turn of developer mode and half the school unenrolled the Chromebook managing to bypass all restrictions. This went on for half a year until one day our school needed to run a state exam (more for measure of schools performance not as a college entrance exam or anything).

The computerized testing program required deploying a specific chrome app accessible when chrome book is logged out (can’t just download from chrome web store). When they tried to push the client since half of Chromebooks were unenrolled it failed. This required the school it to recall pretty much all chrome books to manually re enroll all of them and disable developer mode (prevents unenrolling and prevents sideloading Linux).

Problem is if older Chromebooks are used for Linux in an educational environment there would be nothing stopping a student from whipping up a bootable USB and dumping another distro (bypassing restrictions). I’m also not sure if there is a enrollment mode equivalent Linux (there may be but not sure).

At least that’s my two cents (not a school it admin just a memory from the past 😉).

Depends on the community. I do comment more than I post.