#I'm Not Paying For Youtube Premium

[buttercupdemise]

when did i ever turn my asks off what the hell

[starfishlikestoread]

I am going to start gnawing on the walls

[sl33py-g4m3r]

youtube premium and I bought an electric kettle~~!!! how have I lived without one???

stopped paying for youtube premium for almost a month and are getting ads for an adblocker called pie

I thought that it wouldn't work cause google was blocking the adblockers or something.

some of the ads are neat tho, and some of them are so long I can use my kettle to make tea and go to the bathroom only to come back and its still on the ad.

don't like horror ads tho~~

also still sucks that sometimes the ads are louder than the content. they shouldn't be allowed to do that.

hopefully I've gotten used to the ads again as it's been almost a month cause I started getting ads on december 5th.

and they keep showing me "renew your subscription for more ad free videos"

Yeah screen off for music while out would be nice, and no ads would be nice too but that's about all I use it for. cause it gives you access to ad free youtube music as well, which I don't use. and avalible to download "offline" viewing of videos, which I don't use.

also YOU NEED ONLINE ANYWAY TO VERIFY AND WATCH THEM~~! so its not truly "offline" at all. you still need access to verify that you can watch the thing you "supposedly" downloaded DIRECTLY TO YOUR DEVICE~~!!

a waste of $19 if you're paying through apple.

how come it took me so long to realize this? is it a waste of money if you pay anywhere for services you don't use? or is youtube premium worth it if not through apple? tho at that it's still like $15 i think?

sucks too for long form videos of aesthetic music or something to get a bunch of ads that pull you out of whatever you were doing. but I don't use them for sleep anyway so~~ eh.

also 5 smaller ads in a row~~~

when did ads on youtube get this bad? or were they bad to begin with? also quit showing me ads for booze/alcohol please~~~ I don't drink and never will~~

and unrelated but I should've bought myself a kettle a long time ago~~ like~~~ it's faster than boiling water on the stove and I drink a lot of tea~~~ found a good gooseneck electric kettle on walmart for a really good deal at the end of last month~~~~ it was normally $200 but was on clearance for $45 and w shipping I got a $200 kettle for $50~~~ sleep deprived impulse buy cause I was looking at other ones but settled on that one and so far regret absolutely nothing~~~

probably more energy efficient than boiling water in a pan on the stove~~!!! how did I not get a kettle until now?? why are they not more common here?? Everyone needs a kettle~~~ even if it's just to cook those in a cup noodles~~~

get kettles people~~~ they're useful and so fast~~~ I timed mine cause I was curious and at 800 ml having it go to boiling takes like 3 minutes and 30 seconds. darn near instant compared to the stove~~!!

only gripe about it is that the temperatures are only in Fahrenheit~~~

I still swear both things should have both measurements and America should just go metric already~~ do what the rest of the world is doing~~ I will talk about this forever until we do it~~~~

trying my best for years to switch myself to the metric system cause the rest of the world does it~~~ and America should too~~~~

[isithotinhereorisitjustme]

What the fuck is up with YouTube ads lately??? I specifically remember you'd always be able to skip in 5 seconds if it was longer than that. Why the hell am I getting "Skip in 35 seconds" "skip in 60 seconds" like bitch???? No????

[shortmexicangirl]

my life would be infinitely better if the club penguin pizzatron 3000 music was on spotify

[lamarie-artsy]

I spent today looking for a media player that'll let me play from where I last left off (found one, it's called media player classic) and consolidating some more werewolf worldbuilding. I also turned a passage from a poem into a zine, but that didn't really take that long.

[akuma-tenshi]

hey what if i killed you instead

[dustofthedailylife]

Interesting... I switched browsers, away from a chromium-based one (Opera GX) to Firefox and suddenly tumblr is less buggy, too.

A welcome outcome...

Let's hope it stays that way. It's certainly less annoying to navigate the site now.

[milatarywood]

The freaking temu ads have annoyed me while at work, gaming, eating, hearing music with my family, and literally doing anything in general

[transingthoseformers]

Me when i have to go on a long roadtrip tomorrow for something so I've gotta download a lot of fics and songs because the person driving is a Talker™️

[unicornlovers10]

Mine is Unfixable by DAGames. It's an absolute bop, and you can probably use this outside of the context of Sister Location.

spotify wrapped is out and everybody is always posting their top 5 songs….. let’s see some love for number 6 that didn’t make the cut. rb and add your number 6

[sl33py-g4m3r]

deleted personal (i'm lost) post cause no one needs the negativity~~ small rant about youtube premium again~~

deleted the existential crisis post that I made as I feel once again that the complaining is sadly not welcome here~~ lest I throw negativity into one of my spaces and then have it reinforced somehow; thus making it worse.....

I hope to henceforth not complain or post deeply personal things here for a good while, as I feel as if I've been doing that too much as of late~~~ and it's not helpful to anyone reading my negativity...

unfortunately I put some of my larp into that post to try to cheer myself up and it had henceforth been deleted as well....

random note, how annoying are ads now on youtube? it hasn't been even 24 hours since my subscription lapsed and I started to get ads again, even now I'm deeply annoyed by them...

but $20 just for many features that I don't use? I still wouldn't download videos as you still need an internet connection to play them anyway, so that's useless.... I don't use the screen off feature anymore and didn't use youtube music anyway.....

most of the features I don't use, and I'm still annoyed at the ads. I got so used to not having ads......

I need to start getting used to the ads again because I don't want to pay 20 freaking dollars on IOS just for no ads on something.

I feel like if there was a modern app to fuse demons, and you get an ad before and after every fusion... or maybe I'm just easily annoyed...

I don't want to pay the money for that if all I'm getting are ad free videos cause it could be going to gas or something else much more useful.

I'm torn because I got really used to the ad free videos, now ads are annoying, but I don't use all of the features so I see it as a waste...

much less negative post~~! just me trying to make up my mind about the stupid advertising crap..... did I have ad free youtube before the ads got really annoying or something?

but then ads are cool tho cause you can learn about something new like a new food or something~~~

idk what do help...... feel like I'm wasting 20 paying for it but is the annoyance with ads worth continually paying for it?

edited to add: I'm oddly interested in some of the videos that just straight up don't seem to have any ads on them.... what's up with that? Are the add-less videos not getting the person ad revenue now cause they were demonetized or something?

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA for sabotaging my boyfriend's hookup with his girlfriend by filling his sex playlist with DJ Crazytimes

I (28NB, they/he) have known my boyfriend (call him C, 29M, he/him) for some 15ish years now. As long as I've known him, he has been on and off again with his girlfriend (call him T, 29NB, he/him). Respectfully, and with love, C and T are two of the worst and most annoying people I know. I want to marry them both specifically so that I can study them under a microscope like a parasitic virus.

Technically they're monogamous, but they're both hooking up with other people (myself included), usually the same people, because they have the same taste in lovers (bad). I have suggested that they give actual polyamory a try, and they reject the idea wholeheartedly. I think they get off on their dynamic, and far be it from me to try more than the bare minimum to dissuade them from it.

A couple months back, they got into a fight and broke up (again) because T (who was unemployed at the time) stole $50 from C (who works at GameStop) so that he could pay for a tank of gas (using C's car) to go hook up with another guy a couple states over. C was not upset that T was hooking up with another guy (because he was Also hooking up with that guy and knew he would not have a leg to stand on), but because of the stolen money + car.

C and I currently live together, because you can't afford an apartment on a GameStop salary, and also, like I said, he's my boyfriend. I'm making carnitas tacos next Friday, and T is coming over, because despite everything, he has nothing else to do on a Friday night. I know that C and T are going to get into a huge fight, and I know that it's probably either going to end with them getting back together out of spite or with someone's vehicle getting keyed--I'm betting on both.

Here's where I think I might be the asshole. I would really like to get inbetween them. Not in a "I don't want you to date each other" kind of way, but in a "holy shit you are both so insufferable i would like to get in on that" kind of way. I currently have my thing with C, and I've hooked up with T once in the past, but I would really like to make it official with him as well.

My plan is as follows: C and T are going to be in the same space again next Friday. They're going to fight, then hook up, then get back together again. C is one of those cybersexual "i built my own computer and run it on Linux" people, which is to say, he thinks tiktok and youtube are evil, and he he thinks spotify premium is supporting megacorporations. So, his sex playlist for T (we do not have our own sex playlist) is just an actual folder of mp3 files.

While C is at work, I'm going to log into his computer and change several of those mp3 files to DJ Crazytimes' Planet of the Bass, which I play often, and he is frequently annoyed by. My hope is that he'll realize it was me, he'll come and yell at me for ruining their hookup, T will take my side to piss him off, and the tension will get to the point where they let me join their hookup, and I can ask to date both of them after that.

To be clear, I recognize that I'm also Incredibly Toxic for enabling and encouraging this behavior. That said, I feel like I'm justified in this scenario considering C and T are both Also toxic, and furthermore, it is a known fact that I'm dating C right now, so for them to hook up, C would technically be cheating on me. I asked C's sister (a childhood friend of mine) for her take on whether it would be funny or just annoying, and she just told me that we all deserve each other, so I think I should be good. Am I being uniquely shitty here?

What are these acronyms?

[jamieclipse]

oh wow I'm so shocked /s

here's the playlist that did it btw, it's basically on repeat anytime I'm awake

[unicornlovers10]

I'm not making this up I swear.

Lucky 13, unlucky 13. No matter your superstitions, what is the 13th song on your spotify wrapped?