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I dont use vanced but I am looking into it. Allegedly vanced has an iOS alternative. My reasoning is that Google is disgusting and has created a defacto monopol
by wand3r 5y ago
I dont use vanced but I am looking into it. Allegedly vanced has an iOS alternative. My reasoning is that Google is disgusting and has created a defacto monopoly. There is no way to outcompete a free product at scale so there basically can’t be an alternative. So I obviously use video and that means I use youtube. I dont want to support google, never want to see an ad and I honestly don’t care about the creator. If i did find someone who I regularly watched I would probably support them directly. I would never want to use youtube premium and infact constantly being bombarded by ads for youtube premium is a major reason i use an adblocker…
- endisneigh 5y ago> I honestly don’t care about the creator. At least you’re honest
- fuzzer37 5y agoWhy would you?
- Teever 5y agoA very important life rule is to never, ever care about someone more than they care about you.
- bduerst 5y agoThis rule creates a negative feedback loop to a world where every single person cares about no one else.
- Teever 5y agoAs opposed to some Woodstock hippy utopia where everyone cares so much for everyone else that love conquers all?
- bduerst 5y agoHow is that the only alternative?
- stjohnswarts 5y agoI don't if they're saying other people shouldn't have a different take on life. I prefer to actually have a certain level of respect and care for my fellow humans. It's is dwarfed by my concern for myself and my family, but yeah I'm gonna bend down and give someone a hand if they drop something or need a push off the road or battery jump.
- tomComb 5y agoSo much for everyone less fortunate than you. The vast majority of the people in the world are much less fortunate than the average HN reader. And yes, they are probably not worrying about us, but a little consideration for them in how we vote or how we donate could make a big difference.
- lucasmullens 5y agoThat's like, the opposite of the golden rule. Do unto others only if they'd do unto you.
- Teever 5y agoNot exactly. I would like others to reciprocate by not caring about me more than I care about them.
- pjerem 5y agoI don’t see creators as "someone" because creators are mostly little business and the person you see on the video is just acting and reading a script. So I can treat them as things. And I do care for the things I enjoy in life when I want them to stay or improve. Not because of the person behind (because, you are right, they don’t know me and I don’t know them) but because I care about what their work bring to my life. The fact that someone is being able to make a decent revenue for this work is a nice externality that I like. But having great knowledge / content freely accessible is what I care. However I’m not paying for YouTube Premium because I care about the content and not the platform. It wouldn’t make a difference for me if I had to use another platform. Platforms should be subcontractors of the content producers. I don’t want to pay for the hosting platform but give my money to the content I love. And that a part of that money is used to provide hosting shouldn’t be my business.
- shaky-carrousel 5y agoI use Musi with YouTube. With it, I can play videos in the background, and there are no ads in the video. There are in the app itself, but pihole takes care of that. I also use Hyperweb, so all YouTube links in safari open in Musi automatically.
- wand3r 5y agoThank you! I dont have pihole but i think i can figure out something. I didnt realize there was a way to declare how to treat links in iOS. This was so helpful!
- freediver 5y agoOrion browser (still in beta) on iOS blocks YouTube ads, has background tab playback, Picture in Picture too for cross-app and screen-off playback. Pretty much everything from Vanced, built in by default in a mobile browser.