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0:10 CZcams tests taking away 4K
1:03 Chrome to hurt adblockers
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I'm loving these changes. Making the internet less fun is such an efficient way to get me offline and to touch grass. Thanks CZcams
Hello. Would you like to talk about our Lord and savior 4chan?
@@jtjames79 no thanks I already have cancer
Grass never heard of it.
Internet hasn’t been fun since 2006. With the invention of smart phone the internet became dull and copy and paste for most sites. Even then most people use a maximum of 5 sites. No originality with these sites
You're being sarcastic but you're right. CZcams isn't a utility, it isn't fresh water or heating for your house. It's not a right, it's a business. If you don't like it turn it off. I wish people would stop acting like they deserve youtube -- so entitled.
At some point, Google will use the front facing camera, to track your eyes so they can confirm you are watching their ads. If you look away, the ad will pause.
"It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response."
V2... blare the ad on the speakers to call for the attention of the user. Disable the ability to Block or mute.
Then the real 'fun' will begin after that. Can you imagine if they take it a step further where not only do you have to watch the ad, but you have to answer a few questions before you can watch the video?
Desktops will become more popular, as they have no camera, you have to plug one in if you want one. Also for Zeus response, you can only limit the mute for the website, OS volume, speakers, your TV/monitor volume controls would be unaffected.
What camera? I'm watching on a PC. And I've *never* seen an ad on CZcams (other than "live sponsor" bits which are generally easy to skip past), since I've been running assorted ad blockers since before Google bought CZcams.
CZcams is pulling the Spotify tactic of "Make the free version absolutely terrible to use"
If ur gonna make the free version good for nothing, why make a free version at all? It’s a waste of fucking time. Pull an Apple Music and just make all tiers paid
Which is why I use BlockTheSpot and Spicetify.
Spotify also loves subjecting it's paid users to ads on podcasts. So far though it only seems to play woke BS ads on anything conservative leaning. A lot of the non-political or political-but-on-the-side-that-needs-to-push-its-ideas-through-coercion podcasts remain ad free.
Was so much fun being bombarded for ads for Bros, while listening to Louder with Crowder.
@@SuperballsSupervidsOnYT You sure you're not exaggerating? And you watch nazi content? Why?
@@trenvert123 I don't think you know what a nazi is. Also, 2012 called and it wants it's childish insult back.
They're "testing" meaning the change is permanent. CZcams never listens to backlash, the dislike button removal is a good example.
No it doesn't lol, it legitimately means it is a test. Do you have all of these experimental features? If it was permanent, we would all have these features in testing.
@@Gandhi_Physique the difference, one makes them money.
@@Eli-fj3sc What are you talking about lol? Read my comment again.
@@Gandhi_Physique the features that have a high probability of staying are ones that make them money. So when you see a test that increases profit ie. removing dislikes, hiding quality settings, more ads, and the like it's most likely going to happen.
@@Eli-fj3sc Ah okay, makes sense. I do wonder to what extent they actually care about user opinion though. Seems like not much lol
Chrome moves to no ad blockers, users move to Firefox.
Or Brave, if you actually want security.
@@BobSentell what's that supposed to mean?
I wish. Problem is 90% of people who uses chrome don’t even know that they have other options like Firefox. They’re just going to be annoyed about it and continue being the plebs they are.
That stat isn’t real for anyone wondering. It’s just my feeling. Though probably not far from the truth.
*librewolf
Brave too is built on top of chromium so firefox 😁
If CZcams locked away 4K, I’d see little reason to bother producing 4K videos anymore.
There would just be so few people able to benefit, while editing would become easier.
I mean, files become smaller which means less upload time and easier archiving of old videos.
Pr user for editing school film project back in high school, and now editing for friends of mine, editing low resolution is honestly even worse than a high resolution files. Youre severely limited in what you can do especially in terms of zoom effects, and when it comes to publish your already low res video will be squashed to death by youtube poo-tier compression. Id argue that this wont personally affect content creation, only how viewers decided on what resolution to watch a content in (read: 1440p60 sounds lucrative now.)
Not exactly
Premium users views gives content creators a large sum of money per certain views than normal views
This actually could incentive creators to bring in premium users to their channel
Imma premium user(Mostly for YT Music)so this wouldn't affect me in the slightest but isn't 4k literally negligible in difference to other reso like 1080p in mobile?
I mean i get it if people use that on TV or monitors capable of supporting 4K but imo only Sony mobiles have the capable screen of supporting 4K to its maximum quality
Good thing most 4k videos come from big channels with big budgets like Mr. Beast and LTT that will still create 4k vids not from some no name YT andy like you
@@fallzero7304 4k is 2160p..
I would love to see a video covering the fact that CZcams advertises "UHD movies" that are more expensive than their SD counterparts, but end up just being in 480p
Update: it's a DRM feature of browsers, because of COURSE it is
Brave, Opera and Edge are all chromium based. Manifest V3 will eventually role out to them too. With Internet explorer dead, your only legacy options (meaning manifest V2) are Firefox and Safari.
I was looking for this comment. Thank you, good sir.
@@resyntax Really? I certainly hope so. I use Brave everywhere D:
Brave on iOS is safari based. I know all of em are but the iOS version is amazing. Some things seem out of place, like clearing the cache being in the shield defaults section instead of the settings, but otherwise it’s perfect
James and Riley aren't even a duo by this point. They're a single entity with two personae spawned from our collective desire of tech news.
Honestly, I just connected my Bose QC35 to my bluetooth adapter from Avantree and I thought there was something wrong with video playback initially hahaha
@@Spydee2207 weird flex but ok
@@J-ed7890 you're not wong, indeed werid flex :/
@@Spydee2207 k then
They have become an archon from StarCraft yes.
I was fine with a few ads. Less than a year ago seeing ads every 2 minutes on a 10 minute video I went through the pain of figuring how to block ads on every single device I own. Susan went too far and is creating a world of ad block.
yeah, the irony is spamming more ad's will quite literally just lead to less ad's being played overall. A few ads played by a million people is a lot of money, 10 ads in a 10 minute video played by a thousand is not a lot of money. Ingenious way to get people on adblockers.
Or.. now here me out.. you pay for the services you consume. Crazy right?! I know!
@@jeremyphillips3087 You already do via the information they take from you as well as your unknown involvement into bettering their machine learning AI solely by interacting with it by interacting with their services. And since we know CZcams is now profitable, all of this is mainly to push for higher profit. They've already broken even and beyond, now it's about how to maximize profit while the platform is still plagued by broken systems. And you're protecting those choices. But to be fair. Google is a small multi-billion indie company so please understand and support them financially.
@@jeremyphillips3087 Or CZcams could make their platform not shit and make it something people want to pay for? The customer service using Google services these days is atrocious, and software development/support generally makes most of their services worse over time rather than better. It's similar to piracy, in that it's a service problem - if you make the service bad, people will avoid using the service in the intended manner. Since CZcams holds a monopoly on the long form online video market then the only way to avoid using the service in the intended manner is using it in other ways, such as with ad block. That's the price of owning an entire market and actively making the user experience worse.
@@PK_Scratch They should be paying us to use our personal information and collating that into advertiser profiles.
They should be paying us everytime they sell our information to other companies.
Don't feel sympathy for a corporate entity. It cannot feel any sympathy for you.
James and Riley are literally the best tech duo ever
I hope we get a video about Manifest v3 on the main LTT channel. There's a lot of people that don't know, but should know, about the changes it makes and how badly it cripples adblockers. Even with the changes adblockers are making to work with Manifest v3, they are severely crippled with only being able to retroactively block ads, compared to now where it proactively blocks ads.
Testing the threshold of revolt seems to be how their marketing team works.
Welcome to capitalism.
Because there's no alternative to CZcams. Switch to other platforms and your favourite creators simply isn't there.
They might wanna do lunch with the PR team 😭🤝
@@flameshana9 yes because something like that would never happen in China, Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, capitalism = bad so anything bad = capitalism
@@benjaminandrews956 Capitalism is the best economic system we have but that doesn't mean it doesn't have any drawbacks. Companies try to maximize profit for shareholders at the expense of integrity so long as it doesn't effect their customer/user base (long term profits). This is the behaviour that CZcams is engaged in and is a natural result of this economic model. This is a valid complaint about capitalism but that doesn't mean we need to stop using it or that its bad. There was nothing wrong with that comment.
Its also pretty funny that you do the whole: capitalism = bad, so anything bad = capitalism; when your whole thought process was basically:
complaint about capitalism = socialist, what about all these socialist countries!
Biggest reason I'll be dropping Chrome when they go Manifest v3 isn't adblocker. It's also going to break noscript style applications that let you control/block cross-site scripting. I refuse to use the web without the ability to explicitly whitelist script-execution sources.
Though I already use Firefox, I could not imagine not having script blockers or my tamper monkey scripts. It's also quite sad how many people are falling into the trap of believing the narrative of blockers still 'working' when in reality if you look at the per-extension and global filter limitations, it's damn near impossible to accurately cover what is necessary for modern ad/script blocking. Not only that but Google can arbitrarily reduce the limits over time at which point the filters will silently fail per design, something which AdGuard admits can happen if people read their blog posts breaking down how badly every kind of blocker is now crippled.
If you want to get into a bit of conspiracy territory, the way these limitations are setup make it much harder to block ad networks on large dynamic CDNs like... surprise... Google, Microsoft and Amazon. On the flip side, smaller companies get screwed because their smaller networks are trivial to include within these limits. It's low-key anti-competitive but Google can hand wave it away by pointing at the blockers they forced into this position.
You should've switched half a decade ago
What do you mean by "noscript style applications that let you control/block cross-site scripting" ? Any examples ?
Idk what that means but i support your decision
This one is one of the best I’ve seen
There’s a real sense that you’re both having a lot of fun
To avoid extra ads. Let the first ad play fully then in the first second of the second ad, back out of the video and click on it to go straight to your content. Works every time.
Ok so I was testing out my new dual bluetooth speakers, and I started youtube and used this video as a test to see if they were in sync or not. That intro caused me a lot of unnecessary troubleshooting lol
lmaoo
Oof
I thought manifest v3 affected all chromium based browsers, which means the vast majority of browsers will be affected, leaving Safari and Firefox being the big 2 that won't be impacted.
Yes that's true, although it shouldn't affect the built in ad blocking Brave uses.
@@fffrrraannkk brave runs on chrome so.... not exactly true.
@@fffrrraannkk Hopefully 😬
@@grenade180 Brave's adblocker works different from extension based adblockers
I have Firefox ready to go with all my bookmarks and extensions. It was really easy to set up. I've used it a bit and it's practically identical to Chrome. When Google makes the switch I'll move over to Firefox.
For the uninitiated: "its just an experiment" is always code for "these are upcoming changes."
This episode was downright hilarious. Thanks for the great coverage!
Still hoping they somehow start working on features that would improve their platform instead of cripple. Like:
- Play a playlist in reverse
- Multi select elements of your playlist so you can do stuff like: Remove 10 videos in 12 clicks (check each box, Delete, Confirm) instead of 20 (click [...], click Delete for each video)
- Add shorts to a playlist, and many more...
They're so concerned with implementing fancy new stuff (and removing old, good stuff) when there's small, practical things like this that could be done.
I like video chapters, the new clip feature, to name a few, but those feel like so much work was needed, compared to *just letting us* play some playlist in reverse 😭😩😞
Be able to detect if a video was uploaded as stereo audio yet was actually mono. Or how about even just give us the choice to force it to mono or select the left or right audio track?
I'll never know why CZcams hasn't fixed playlists yet. Odysee, a much smaller video site, knows that a video is saved to a playlist so you don't add a duplicate link. This is a VAST improvement that CZcams can easily do, yet they don't. So, we'll still be stuck with playlists being a complete mess.
Putting shorts in their own tab instead of polluting the videos tab on a creator's page would be a great QOL improvement.
It’s been YEARS since we had playlists and CZcams never addressed it…it’s almost as if they don’t use their own features 🤔
They even deleted the oldest video option when we enter a channel.
Hang on. Let me get this straight. CZcams seriously expects someone to sit through 8 ads to watch videos now? What is this, television?
No they know we see zero ads with adblock and just ban your account
@@everythingpony I have had an adblocker on my device for years now, and google has done jack shit.
To the Adblock Thing: Thats not for Chrome, its for Chromium, the opensource kernel of Chrome. That Means, it will affect Edge, Brave, Opera, Opera GX or any other Browser based on Chromium. I am suprised you didn't know that
I found the comment i was about to make. On point, looks like lots of people doesn't know that.
Firefox ❤
Fun to se an ad for Secretlab chairs in your video. I got a Secretlab chair 2½ years ago and haven't had any back problems since. The one thing I'd change with it would be to be able to tilt the seat forward so it becomes more ergonomical for the hip section/more variety in seating posititions but other than that it's the perfect chair in every way. Extremely robust, it still feels like new in the materials despite having used it for around 6-12 hours everyday since. I got the Titan model, regular size with the Softweave fabric. Recommend!
Agreed. Been sitting in comfy chairs, ergo chairs, etc. and recently got a secretlabs chair. Pretty much all my back pain i had is gone. Wrist pains gone. It helps me fix my bad posture as well. The only thing i dont like is the ass pain i get from sitting in it for too long, but other than that, its an amazing chair. Worth every penny
I've stopped subscribing to CZcams premium ever since they've removed the dislike count. Such a useful feature.
There's extensions for that, but it was never to stop "bullying", it was to protect corporate profits such as when Rings of Power came out.
I love democracy
I stopped when they showed ads on chromecast despite me paying for premium
@@Snoop_Dugg It stopped because any official video from the White House was getting massive amounts of dislikes. Not sure how that happened since the current President got more votes than any in history. They took it away to protect political interests. Imagine that, a tech company protecting only one side of the US political spectrum.
yeah, me too. premium subscription off, adblock on.
Google: we will lock some features for extra money
EA: first time?
hahahaha
Loot boxes when?
I used Opera prior to the Manifest V3 news, since then i switched fully to firefox on my pc and phone
I've tried to look in the Manifest V3 and it seems that it is a completely change the role of and addon in the request-response pipeline, rather than some attempt to limit adblocker. Rather than a response passing through an addon that can modify it, addon makes needs to specify filters and those get applied by the Chromium engine (on Brave as well).
Ah yes, I’m ready to download a 4K player chrome extension
Maybe switch over to Firefox? That way you can block ads too.
@@fluidthought42 and also have self respect
@@fluidthought42 I plan to. This was just a joke
Why even watch 4k? I usually watch 480 or sometimes 1080p (if small text etc needs to be readable). No need to waste energy bandwidth etc for no reason at all
@@LuLeBe go get your eyes checked
2:00 Yes, people have been adapting their adblockers for Manifest v3, but it is important to note that they all have SIGNIFICANT limitations in compared to the v2 versions.
Such as Adguard having notifications for when your adblocking just stops working because the global rulelist limit has been used up by other extensions or Chrome itself.
So it's time to ditch Chrome (and all Chromium-based browsers).
_Hello Firefox, my old friend..._
They may be able to find a workaround by using a local or cloud-based ruleset that the extension can access only when necessary, essentially creating a rotating set of rules within the extension itself. This would be massively less efficient but a possible workaround.
Firefox it is then.
@@benjaminoechsli1941 I legit recently left firefox because ~10% of all videos I clicked just wouldn't play when using an adblocker lol
@@MidnightSt4r I think that's generally not possible because the ruleset to be used must be presented to the browser before the page loads.
I think dynamic rules are the way they are going, where each website will "learn" a subset of the total rules you have configured so that it only loads the rules the site is likely to need, but that means letting ads through as it learns and filters out unnecessary rules, and when the site changes the ads.
I'm from a generation and a region where we're and we were happy having 360p video going without cutting Evry 5 seconde so 4k is a beat of a stretch
The funny thing is I’ve used dish network as a tv provider before and the Disney block happens every so often it’s a pain but dish tries thier best to keep things cheap for thier customers even if it’s inconvenient for a few days
This is why we need more competition in the video streaming space. CZcams will just continue to devalue their product until a better alternative arrives.
Yup.
Couldn't have said it better myself
Just use youtube revanced
A better alternative can only exist if the creator has a few billion to burn. To host all the traffic.
A better alternative can only exist if the creator has a few billion to burn. To host all the traffic.
The secret lab “sale” price makes the chair cost exactly the same as every other time I’ve look at the price of it in the last 12 months.
Wait are they pulling that shit where they have a sale for all but a couple days a year?
DFS in the U.K got in some big trouble for that afew years ago.
@@toshiroyamada2443 I've looked at the price over the last 12 months on about 10 occasions evey time... £414. Like now. Again. Yeah DFS is bad. They've had a closing down sale since i was born 29 years ago 😂
@@toshiroyamada2443 most companies in the usa do this, car companies have done it literally longer than I've been alive
"And just saying the wrong thing" - this is too true and quite frightening that this power exists
I use CZcams ReVanced, and I'm pretty sure they're gonna add a patch that allows you to watch in 4K without Premium.
Imagine locking basic features behind a paywall
What an original idea!
thats like capitalism right just imagine
Google is no stranger to this, look at background play on mobile devices.
It's not a feature , it's a micro transaction
EA: "Posers..."
I can't wait for implantable defibrillator companies to force patients to have an active subscription if they want their hearts shocked back into rhythm. The future is glorious 🙃
Isnt that like Cyberpunk 2077 medical care in a nutshell?
@@vert2552 Spoilers God damn it! I haven't played it yet 😕
@@vert2552 Yes, which is based off of US medical care, just in Cyberpunk it's an even higher extreme.
@@magnanimus9692 i hope you are trolling lol
Capitalism 🤗🤗🤗
biggest issue with manifest v3 is that it’s going into the chromium code base, and thus downstream browsers like opera and edge will also use manifest v3, though maybe at a later date.
i'm surprised Netflix or Amazon Prime haven't had a go at a CZcams model with a free portion of their services. Most devices have a Netflix or Amazon Prime app including TV's, so the barrier to entry for them is low. They could have a free area which also becomes a gateway for the paid for section, if you don't already pay for either.
Firefox is actually quite good, handles WAY more tabs per system resources, is really quick, and has a ton of great plugins.
I have donated to wikipedia plenty of times for no benefit, and as much as I hate adds I refuse to get youtube premium.
I'm not against paying to remove adds, but they overdid it to the point I got so annoyed I refuse to pay them a single penny.
Same, on both counts. Donate to Wikipedia and refuse to get youtube premium on principal. I rarely use Wikipedia these days, so it isn't even about it's utility to me, I just believe it deserves to be supported.
I can pay for premium but refuse to since the excessive spamming with adverts is completely unreasonable and they've even openly admitted to doing it. A few ads is reasonable, but having to go through multiple unskippable ads before I start a video that is sometimes shorter than the ads is beyond the pale. On top of that, you even get ads at the end of the video when you expect silence. This behaviour is actually pushing me away from youtube altogether.
@@Chrysaetos3 linus tech tips are guilty of this themselves. Putting ads on 30 second video shorts so the ads end up being longer than the damn video.
@@toshiroyamada2443 I'm not condoning the creators that choose to do this at all, but my criticism was directed at youtube itself. It shouldn't even be an option to allow total ad time to be longer than a video.
There has to be some sort of reasonable ratio of total ad length: video length. Maybe ads can't be a greater length than 1/3 of the video length or something (and that is the absolute highest proportion I think is acceptable, but should reasonably be lower).
@@Chrysaetos3 I thought you couldn't put ads on shorts so I was surprised when I saw LTT doing it.
You still give them as revenue money when you watch the ads
I will be CANCELLING my YT Premium if they start gatekeeping like that...
4k is standard def resolution now.
Every device in my house is 4k, if they dare I promise you now LTT and about 2 other subs will be the only thing I touch this website for.
Riley is so good at these
Reminds me of a guy call keys from netlink daily
Oh I'm sorry for forgetting to call you a 5 am. Just to ask Linus to upgrade his TeamViewer licenses
Please give a list of other browser options and test how good the CZcams ad blockers are! PLESE! With sugar on top 🙏
"Maybe we'll have less compression now."
"Nope."
CZcams immediately starts buffering.
Well done gents! The ending with you and James talking in unison had me dying! Loving the goofy stuff you guys have been doing lately!
Keep 4k as a standard resolution, if they want to make 8k or 16k or 420k premium then whatever. but 4k will likely be a common monitor resolution so it seems like a bad idea to make it a premium feature.
Not even that 4k is common in everyday households the big tv. People use that to watch youtube as well hell thats why a lot of people buy 4k tvs, to watch 4k content
Actually it can be a great idea for CZcams if they want to increase subscriptions since everyone wants to max their TV with 4K
I disagree. Lock it behind premium and put 20 ads before each video. I want a platform that is actually good rather than just barely good enough that I willing subject myself to suffering.
I have been mad at the state of CZcams’s Picture in Picture on iOS since iOS got the feature. Google didn’t bother adding the feature to not paying users until a few months ago and they intentionally broke Picture in Picture in safari within a weak of the OS coming out. Now the feature is available for free to everyone BUT THE VIDEO FREAKING PAUSES IF YOU HAVE IT OFF SCREEN LONG ENOUGH!
I have given up on Google ever choosing to make their services enjoyable to use and at this point I just want everyone to find a new video platform that isn’t terrible and that’s never going to happen if Google keeps giving us inches when we get mad at them.
@@Drazil100 > I have been mad at the state of CZcams’s Picture in Picture on iOS
Yes! Preach! I'm a premium sub, and it's still buggy even for people who *do* pay, _and_ they keep threatening to take it away too :/
@@Drazil100 Imagine if youtube users had to pay more just for continue playing video while switching tabs in PC/Mac
2:08
This also applies to any non-chrome browser using chrome technology...
imagine having to download an ad blocker for your AR glasses that are as common as smart phones now [referring to the future (5-10 years)]
YT is getting increasingly harder to use without adblock, or selectively using / not using it. I don't think 4k is 'basic' so I'm not too concerned about that, but will it eventually do HDR better? then when creators put the effort in...paywall that too?
4K is slowly becoming mainstream just as HD did, so it soon will be a basic feature. Slow internet connections or underpowered devices are the main thing stopping more people from routinely watching video in 4K. As people's internet service improves and they upgrade to newer devices they will begin to use 4K where available.
yeah I'm with you on 4K not being "basic". it's cool I guess, but most of the time I'm not getting a significantly better experience by watching a CZcams video higher than 1080. shoot, most times I'm fine with 720 especially since most of my CZcams consumption is background stuff that I'm mostly just listening to
The manifest v3 update will also effect Microsoft edge and other chromium based browsers as well your best bet is going to firefox that is not chromium based.
@@mp3talon I know opera has a adblocker built in as well. Its also good to know my adblocker of choice is not affected, by the manifest v3 update, thank you for that bit of info.
I already have a CZcams premium and honestly it is the best way to skip ads on mobile and comes with a few other features. This and gamepass are the only subscriptions I pay for so it isn't that bad.
The anchorman quote just makes me feel old but still happy
Riley just has fantastic stage presence. What a professional.
He's just so entertaining. His Intel extreme upgrade is hilarious.
Long live FIREFOX!
*librewolf
Reminder that google actually removed "don't be evil" from their mission statement.
That is a real thing that happened.
Here's how I do mid role ads. When the ad starts, if I can't skip it, I leave, unless I'm really engaged in the video. I'm watching a video that's a couple minutes long, I don't need to watch commercials that's like 50% of the length of the video, I just tune out.
I don't use firefox. But I'm probably going to from now on. I'm understanding on adblockers going away, but tracker blockers is a no go. I have do not track on, if advertisers can't respect that then I refuse to respect any ad content generated by it. If they can privateer my data, I can privateer the content. It's on them to be respectful. They stop tracking, they automatically get to serve me ads.
Aka you use Privacy Badger?
these developments are absolutely terrifying. The backend is getting cheaper due to much more powerful and efficient hardware, but the already existing feature set of a decade is suddenly getting crippled and put behind a paywall.
Same with the changes to chrome. Build a service, buy or destroy all the competition so everybody has to use your services, then force them to pay for previously free components. I hate this pattern so much, yet antitrust laws seem to be helpless against this anti competitive and monopolistic business practice.
And with large corporations like google you can't even be sure they will keep the service alive after shooting themselves in the foot with their anti consumer changes.
Welcome to capitalism. Kill off everything that isn't blindly focused on the maximum amount of profits inhumanly possible.
@@flameshana9 It's sad, the goalpost just gets moved and not enough people care for it to matter. "Didn't watch 4K anyway", "already have premium" etc, until the next change affects us and repeat.
Are these videos like tech news for the day/week/month thing?
The intro was a good way to start my day.
3:45 This is still genuinely useful to give PC game free keys for Stadia games because you can still play all those PC games via streaming through Nvidia GeForce Now.
I will go to Floatplane before I pay YT for 4k
Saying you're going to boycott CZcams is like saying boycotting Twitch for Mixer. In which CZcams is too big to care about you unless you're a TikTok user
I mean 1080p is fine??
@@Average_Mortal I get so sick of videos defaulting to 480p when I have gigabit internet speeds. Manually changing it each time is so annoying.
I'm not going to pay for the privilege of changing the resolution.
@@Snoop_Dugg There's a buried setting somewhere where you can change the default to high bandwidth or something - doesn't guarantee 1080p/4K but it will at least default to higher than 480p
@@bosstowndynamics5488 Exactly.
The editing and humor here, is both trippyhilarious. 😂🤘
I have been a huge proponent of Brave since I started using it about a year ago.
"you don't have to use chrome.... BRAVE!"
😬 who's gonna tell them
brave has a built in adblocker unaffected by manifast v3
I actually wish youtube go finally mad and made yt premium only or something. I would finally get some more free time until different company will jump on occasion and start new youtube for free
odysee would probably what everyone jumps on, it alr has most of the stuff up and running, but lacks public attention
@@Anonymous4045 Just to highlight your point, personally the first time hearing of odysee, so thank you.
@@Anonymous4045 and you don't think that as soon as odyssey hits critical mass and has billions of users it won't run into the exact same problems? Video hosting is extremely expensive, with that many users they would 110% be serving loads of ads, would def not play anything over 1080p. It seems like you lot have a massive misunderstanding of how the internet works.
@@arniebmx No, I don't. Odysee is a frontend to the LBRY file sharing protocol, which is free and open source software. If odysee became crap like youtube, someone would fork it and make a different frontend. Or, more likely, there'll be many different popular frontends.
@@Anonymous4045 How is it free then? Do they serve ads? Are videos slef hosted? All of this sounds like extremely wishful thinking from people that don't understand the scale of infrastructure necessary to run a service like this.
Love how he yelled "Brave" from the off. Nice browser, though!
They always do sketchy stuff, I’m an American and travel a lot and when I travel to some countries my premium features get restricted like where I’m at right now if I leave the CZcams app it pauses videos versus when I’m in America I can let videos play in the background
Love the scorpion tail analogy, it fits Google to a tee.
TBH I'd be happier if YT just told me "we wanted to see how far we could push the ads until people got mad enough to quit"
No, thanks. Ther are already too many adds.
Manifest v3 will undoubtedly kill adblocker's capability of blocking CZcams ads, which is likely the main goal of the thing.
It's interesting that they weren't able to just beat ad blockers by undetectably inlining ads with the video stream, and had to go this way.
Okay, so my faithful use of Firefox is being duly rewarded by continued functionality of my ad blockers. Thanks! You're the first outlet that mentioned the change was browser specific. Firefox isn't dead, folks!!
Google never ceases to regress.
I actually don’t mind the 4K restrictions IF it means less ads for free users.
Reducing the vast majority to 1080p would effectively drop the bandwidth by 75% (realistically it’ll be less) but still a substantial savings on Google’s side. And more than half of viewers see videos on mobile anyways where they won’t even be able to tell. It seems like the easiest way to cut cost and improve profits.
However that is in an ideal world. In practice, Google will definitely add 8 ads on top of lowering the resolution if they think they can get away with it. Cause where else are you gonna go? Vimeo? Go90? Quibi?
And yet everyone else is saying that free 4k video is basic human right.
Some corporate boot licker will try claim ad blocking is "Piracy". Well the one thing it does have in common with Piracy is getting a better experience. Who can forget the paid DVDs full of unskippable copyright warnings and movie trailers vs bootleg DVDs that go straight to the movie and straight to the point of watching a movie in the first place.
The ads on websites are getting ridiculous. We need laws that limit the amount of ads a company can push on one person in a given timeframe, like tv. They only can run so many ads in a 30 minute or hour long slot on tv, but without premium on CZcams, you could get an ad after every video, even if they’re under a minute long. It’s simply not right.
They already locked the 720p downloads on mobile app behind CZcams premium i feel nothing now
just wait commenting is 50 cents per comment
@@HearMeLearn oof i know you're joking but oof
@@HearMeLearn can you NOT give them ideas, please
I haven't used Chrome or Brave(Chromium) since the whole scandal of them injecting affiliate links thing. Firefox is very capable and nice. Chrome is long past its days as the "best" browser imo.
Yeah I use it on occasion. Only reason I don't use firefox more is simply because for whatever reason a few websites I use (mostly school related ones) only work on chromium based browsers, which is stupid.
Blink is a great engine and it's fast, but it isn't worth Google's shitty practices. I've been on Chromium which eliminates a lot of Google proprietary garbage while taking advantage of Blink, but the plugin change is inevitably going to impact Chromium too, so I'm done with them soon. It'll take normies a couple of years to catch on to what's happening.
@@nesyboi9421 it's lazy website making practices; since the most used browser is chrome, and most alternatives are also chromium forks, they don't bother testing on any other engine, which leaves issues when using firefox/waterfox, safari or the other rare browsers that have their own engines
After Firefox, Brave and even Yandex, Chrome feels barely usable
@@alcedob.5850 chrome is like the worst chromium browser you can use, edge (as horrible as microsoft is regarding privacy) is unironically better both in privacy protection and just overall safer
in the google trend of mediocre products used by everyone, really
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Write that down!
Write that down!!
There is already an extension made for adblocking
Next step: Require per-CZcamsr Memberships to avoid ads, like Twitch subs. For just $160 per month, you can watch any 10 CZcamsrs without ads! And your favorite creators will even get to keep 70%--wait no 50%---wait no 30% of that money (15% after taxes and fees).
"You dont have to use Chrome, use Brave"
A Chromium fork.
Really?
Imagine a Browser like Firefox existing...
That sums up why my CZcams app was stock on loading when waiting to be able to use because my phone can't play 4k except 1080p 60fps.
I had a 1:49 unskippable ad yesterday, luckily there wasn't a second ad, but it still baffled me.
I can't be asked to watch a minute+ long ad every 5 minutes.
30 seconds sure. A minute every 10-15 probably. Longer than a minute? No.
we need a full tech linked with them both in perfect unison
The current CZcams premium at £12.99 a month in the UK is more expensive Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Now TV, Paramount+. If CZcams made premium a sensible price it wouldn't be so bad. I have no interest in CZcams music but there's no cheaper option for just the video features!
Just a reminder that firefox as well as the adblock addons that fully block youtube ads are both totally free and you can switch and install them in an aftenoon.
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People freaking out about no ad blockers while there are options like adguard DNS.
Having a premium option creates a perverse incentive to make the free version as bad as possible to push people to the subscription.
They can lose 90% of their free users and make up for it in subscription money. It is a more reliable income source that any business would choose if they had the option between that ad revenue from views.
as someone who moved to firefox somewhat recently, im glad im pretty unaffected
Just a heads up, the PS5 exploit chain does NOT allow you to install anything from unofficial sources. The only things that can be installed are packages that are signed and unmodified from psn. So nothing fancy like homebrew or anything, just either games you already owned and have the license for or things that don't require a license like demos or apps
This would be a great time to tell LTT to start posting their videos to Odysee too. Techlinked is the only reason I still interact with youtube regularly.
Agreed, I feel bad watching on CZcams
Reminds me of when CZcams stopped defining 720p as HD, and subsequently put 720p video downloads under an 'HD Premium wall'
And how they defaults to 480p despite the bandwidth being enough for 4K
I pay for premium just to get rid of the ads a while ago. If they want me to pay for 4K I will cancel and stop watching CZcams.
Doesn't sound like it will cost extra. If you have Premium for the ads anyways, 4k will be included.
I love those 32minute ads playing when i use my phone for playing music.
I got shivers at the start.