A Boring Dystopia

Years ago I understand why streaming services want to implement paid subscription. But now, I heard that even on premium you will still get ads! It is just milking more money at this stage!

When they say ‘faster playback speeds’ they don’t mean faster connection speeds, they mean watching videos at 1.5x normal speed (or faster).

Sometimes they even show an "Experiencing interruptions?" popup just to be extra dickheads. I am patient, I can wait.

The lite version does not include this. It also still shows ads on music and shorts. 

Do people even use that?

If you're watching lectures from someone who talks really slow.

Slop comment aside, a lot of people with ADHD listen to videos at 1.5x or more speed because that’s how their brain works.

Try watching videos by "explaining computers". Actually pretty good content (mostly on single board computers like raspberry pi), but he talks glacially. Normally I watch at 1.5x, this channel is one of just a few where I need to up it to 2x.

When you think about it, it’s not really that different from learning to read faster, which is a valued skill.

(There’s an argument to be made that for many things you’d be better off reading rather than watching YouTube vids at 4x but let’s not focus on that.)

Tutorials where they are going through stuff you 90% understand already and you just need to find that juicy remaining 10%.

Have you seen people who complain about written jnfo his video info? Its because they can read thr info faster than listening to it be said. But if you speed it up to 2x or 3x then it becomes the same as reading in terms of time. You get used to it over time. I can't listen to anything at 1x speed anymore.

... Or you could just use an ad blocker

VPN to Albania. No ads on free YouTube.