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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • May I ask why you pay for it?

    I pay for most services I use, from companies I want to support. YouTube, I use it all the time but it’s just google, they have more money than they’ll ever need.

    So I have Unlock origin installed, which skips ads, and Sponsor Block, which automatically skips sponsor segments within the videos. It works great, sometimes there’s a little glitch as it hard cuts from before to after, sometimes you wouldn’t know you skipped it except for the tiny indicator. You can leave self sponsored content on so you are still in the loop and can support creators you like.

    If you use chrome both these things can be installed, free, in minutes, from the app store, no weird pirating download or confusing installation.

    I know lots of people have YouTube through a smart tv or something, but in case you don’t, or need to save the cash, this works great. Make sure to support the creators though instead with any cash you can afford to spend.








  • " Some of this piracy (and make no mistake, that’s what it is) "

    Says who? What authority does this writer have to declare blurry, poor audio quality shakey cam video of a movie theatre screen with dozens of people singing in the foreground “piracy”?

    From my perspective, piracy would be taking and selling (or personally viewing in place of paying and viewing) something someone else made. None of these videos are meant to replace seeing the movie, nor will they.

    I cannot wait to see Wicked, I’ve seen the musical 4 times in my life. Except there is no way I’m going to watch a movie in a theatre setting with other randos singing or generally being shitty people.

    Am I cobbling together all the tictoc clips and watching that? No. Because that’s not the product they are selling. I’ll wait for it to come out on streaming.

    These videos are not piracy.