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I'm sort of excited about this. There are great subscription streaming service like Nebula that content producers have been advocating for. Google management is

I'm sort of excited about this. There are great subscription streaming service like Nebula that content producers have been advocating for. Google management is going to boost sales over there as people exit YouTube and we can finally break it's monopoly hold.

drcongo 3y ago
I'm with you. YouTube is a clown car of user-hostile design and clickbait. I'd never heard of Nebula so just had a quick look, design looks OK but the horrendous thumbnails of people pulling stupid faces and debasing themselves for clicks is sadly almost as bad as YouTube. I'm resigned to the fact that dignity is an anachronism in 2023.
mvdtnz 3y ago
I bought a Nebula subscription to support Grady Hillhouse and have been deeply disappointed in it. Virtually everything I have found there can also be found free on YouTube (including Grady's own Practical Construction series, something he didn't make clear when promoting Nebula for the series). And it's full of the same clickbait crap like "7 dumbest animals in the world" and that fucking face YouTubers all make for their thumbnails. The app is also dog slow.
Euphorbium 3y ago
I was hyped when it came out, paid for a subscription for a year and it was unusable. Did not improve in the year, so I just cancelled. Somehow the quality looked worse than the worst 180p. Not 1080p, 180p.
- leereeves 3y ago
  I can't say what was wrong for you, but Nebula doesn't have that problem for me.
kup0 3y ago
I subscribed to Nebula and honestly there hasn't been any content there that has ever kept me coming back. Been subscribed for a year and all the content I want is still only on YouTube. They're going to have to screw over creators bad enough for creators to move elsewhere before there's any remotely significant change in critical mass
wdr1 3y ago
YouTube itself offers a subscription version without ads. https://www.youtube.com/premium https://www.youtube.com/premium

drcongo 3y ago

I'm with you. YouTube is a clown car of user-hostile design and clickbait. I'd never heard of Nebula so just had a quick look, design looks OK but the horrendous thumbnails of people pulling stupid faces and debasing themselves for clicks is sadly almost as bad as YouTube. I'm resigned to the fact that dignity is an anachronism in 2023.

mvdtnz 3y ago

I bought a Nebula subscription to support Grady Hillhouse and have been deeply disappointed in it. Virtually everything I have found there can also be found free on YouTube (including Grady's own Practical Construction series, something he didn't make clear when promoting Nebula for the series). And it's full of the same clickbait crap like "7 dumbest animals in the world" and that fucking face YouTubers all make for their thumbnails. The app is also dog slow.

Euphorbium 3y ago

I was hyped when it came out, paid for a subscription for a year and it was unusable. Did not improve in the year, so I just cancelled. Somehow the quality looked worse than the worst 180p. Not 1080p, 180p.

leereeves 3y ago
I can't say what was wrong for you, but Nebula doesn't have that problem for me.

kup0 3y ago

I subscribed to Nebula and honestly there hasn't been any content there that has ever kept me coming back. Been subscribed for a year and all the content I want is still only on YouTube. They're going to have to screw over creators bad enough for creators to move elsewhere before there's any remotely significant change in critical mass

wdr1 3y ago

YouTube itself offers a subscription version without ads. https://www.youtube.com/premium https://www.youtube.com/premium