Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix & remembers why

Summary

In this passionate video, the creator expresses frustration over paying for media services like Netflix, only to receive a lower quality streaming experience compared to piracy. Despite subscribing to a 4K plan, the user discovers that they are actually receiving a 720p stream, which is even worse than what could be obtained for free. The video highlights the paradox of paying for an inferior service and the intrusive nature of smart TVs, advocating for a consumer experience that values partnership over adversarial relationships.

Takeaways

• 😤 The frustration with paying for content like Netflix and receiving a worse experience than piracy, which is free and sometimes higher quality.
• 📺 The speaker's disdain for smart TVs due to privacy concerns, preferring non-smart options to avoid potential surveillance.
• 💻 The discovery that using a computer to stream Netflix results in a lower quality stream, even with a paid subscription, compared to a potentially higher quality stream from piracy.
• 🔒 A critique of DRM and proprietary software that restricts user experience, suggesting that paying customers are being punished with inferior service.
• 👫 The speaker's personal values, emphasizing willingness to pay for quality but refusal to support services that treat customers as adversaries.
• 🛠️ The importance of customer service and treating customers as partners, not adversaries, to foster trust and satisfaction.
• 🎟️ The speaker's commitment to paying for value, such as art, software, and hardware, but not tolerating services that provide a worse experience for paying customers.
• 🚫 A strong stance against connecting TVs to the internet due to privacy concerns and the preference for open-source software.
• 🤔 The questioning of modern business practices that provide a better user experience for those who pirate content compared to paying customers.
• 📈 The argument that paying for a service should not require workarounds or additional research to achieve the best quality, which should be provided by default.
• 📉 The speaker's decision to cancel their Netflix account based on principle, citing the poor value and user experience provided by the service.

Q & A

What is the main issue the speaker has with paying for content like Netflix?

The speaker's main issue is that they receive a worse viewing experience when paying for content compared to what they would get if they pirated it. They paid for a 4K streaming service but received a low-quality 720p stream.

How long has the speaker been expressing their frustration with the content payment model?

The speaker has been expressing their frustration for approximately 22 years.

What does the speaker consider as a 'cheat code' to check the quality of the Netflix stream?

The 'cheat code' mentioned by the speaker is pressing control shift alt D on Netflix, which revealed that they were receiving a low bit rate 720P stream despite paying for 4K.

Why does the speaker refuse to connect their television to the internet?

The speaker refuses to connect their television to the internet due to privacy concerns, distrust of closed-source software, and the potential for smart TVs to spy on users.

What does the speaker believe is the default setting for smart TVs regarding personal information?

The speaker believes that the default setting for smart TVs should be 'do not sell my personal information,' but instead, it is often set to allow data collection and selling.

What alternative did the speaker's girlfriend consider to avoid smart TV issues?

The speaker's girlfriend considered buying a business television for the living room that is not smart, to avoid the internet connectivity and privacy issues associated with smart TVs.

Why does the speaker feel that paying customers are treated as adversaries rather than partners by some companies?

The speaker feels this way because paying customers often have to jump through hoops or use workarounds to get the quality they are promised, whereas pirated content comes without such restrictions.

What is the speaker's stance on paying for value?

The speaker is more than willing to pay for content, products, and services if they perceive value in them. They believe in supporting creators and artists they appreciate.

How does the speaker view the relationship between customers and the companies they pay for services?

The speaker views it as an adversarial relationship when a company provides a worse experience to paying customers, which goes against the principle of receiving better service for the money spent.

What is the speaker's final decision regarding Netflix and their reason for it?

The speaker decides to cancel their Netflix account due to the poor quality of streaming they received despite paying for a higher tier and the overall adversarial relationship they felt with the company.

Why does the speaker believe that piracy is still rampant after 22 years?

The speaker believes piracy is rampant because those who choose to pirate content often receive a better experience than paying customers, which is an unacceptable situation that has not improved over the years.

Outlines

00:00

💢 Frustration with Paid Media Experience

The speaker expresses a long-standing frustration with the inferior experience they receive when paying for content like products, services, games, or TV shows compared to pirating. They recount their experience with a media player 22 years ago and criticize the state of media consumption in 20123, where companies have not adapted to the modern consumer's desire for flexibility and quality across devices. The speaker shares a personal anecdote about using a redacted application for a better experience than YouTube Premium, which they had been paying for, and defends their willingness to pay for value, highlighting their financial stability and success.

05:01

📺 Netflix Quality Fiasco: Paid vs. Pirated

The speaker recounts an incident where they attempted to watch a TV show on Netflix, expecting a high-quality 4K stream due to their premium subscription. However, they discovered that the stream was of low quality and resolution, even after using a browser trick to check the actual stream quality. They hypothesize that the poor quality might be due to using a computer, suggesting that Netflix might be intentionally degrading the experience to push users towards closed-source platforms. After setting up a specific network for their smart TV, they found that the stream quality improved significantly, indicating that the issue was not with the content itself but potentially with the platform or service delivery.

10:01

🛡️ The Paradox of Modern Media Consumption

The speaker discusses the paradox of paying for a service like Netflix and receiving a lower quality stream than what could be obtained through piracy. They express their decision to no longer support Netflix due to this adversarial relationship, where paying customers are not treated as partners but rather as adversaries. They emphasize the importance of feeling valued and respected as a customer and the frustration of having to search for workarounds to receive the quality they are paying for. The speaker also touches on the broader issue of companies implementing artificial restrictions that punish paying customers, leading to a loss of trust and willingness to support such services.

15:03

🚫 Rejecting Adversarial Business Practices

The speaker concludes by reiterating their stance against businesses that treat customers as adversaries, using their experience with Netflix as a case study. They argue that paying for a service should come with a better experience, not a worse one, and that the current trend of companies providing inferior paid experiences compared to free or pirated ones is unacceptable. The speaker also reflects on the value of supporting creators directly and the importance of finding alternative methods to access content outside of mainstream, restrictive ecosystems. They invite viewers to share their thoughts on the issue, questioning whether their reaction is an overreaction and seeking validation for their decision to no longer engage with certain media services.

Keywords

💡Piracy

Piracy in the context of the video refers to the unauthorized use or distribution of copyrighted content without payment. The video discusses how the experience of consuming media through piracy can sometimes be superior to that of paying for the same content through official channels, which is a central theme of the video. For example, the speaker mentions that they could get a 1080p stream for free through piracy, whereas they received a lower quality 720p stream when they paid for a service.

💡Value

Value is a key concept in the video, referring to the perceived worth or quality one receives in exchange for their payment. The speaker emphasizes their willingness to pay for products and services that provide value, but expresses frustration when the paid experience does not meet or exceed the quality of free, pirated content. The video's theme revolves around the expectation of receiving better quality when paying for media, which was not the case in the speaker's experience.

💡Netflix

Netflix is used in the script as an example of a subscription-based streaming service that the speaker had a negative experience with. The term is repeatedly mentioned to illustrate the disparity between the expected quality of a paid service and the actual experience, which was of lower quality than what could be obtained through piracy. The speaker's dissatisfaction with Netflix is a driving point in the video's argument.

💡4K

4K, or Ultra High Definition, is a term used to describe a resolution standard for video displays. In the video, the speaker discusses paying for a 4K streaming plan on Netflix but instead receiving a lower quality stream, which contradicts the value proposition of the service. This term is central to the video's theme of the mismatch between payment and received quality.

💡DRM (Digital Rights Management)

DRM is a technology used by content providers to control access to copyrighted material. The video touches on DRM as a potential reason for the inferior streaming quality experienced by the speaker when using a paid service, suggesting that DRM may hinder the delivery of higher quality content to paying customers. This term is used to highlight the technical barriers that can affect the consumer's experience.

💡Smart TV

A Smart TV is a television with integrated internet connectivity and built-in applications. The video discusses the privacy concerns associated with Smart TVs, particularly those with microphones that can potentially be used to collect personal data. The speaker's reluctance to connect their TV to the internet due to these concerns is a significant part of the narrative.

💡Bitrate

Bitrate refers to the number of bits processed per unit of time in a digital transmission, which affects the quality of video and audio streams. The video script mentions the speaker's discovery of a low bitrate stream even when paying for a high-quality service, which is a key point in the argument about the inferior quality of paid content compared to pirated content.

💡Proprietary Application

A proprietary application is a software program that is owned by a company and is not available for others to modify or distribute. The video script contrasts the higher quality stream received through a proprietary Smart TV application with the lower quality stream received on a computer, suggesting that proprietary applications may offer a better viewing experience but at the cost of user privacy and control.

💡Ad Blocker

An ad blocker is a software tool that prevents advertisements from being displayed while browsing the internet. The video mentions ad blockers as a means to avoid unwanted ads on free services like YouTube, contrasting this with the paid YouTube Premium service, which requires users to view ads and provide personal data. This term is used to illustrate the perceived unfairness of paying for a service that still includes unwanted content.

💡Partnership

Partnership in the video is used metaphorically to describe the ideal relationship between a service provider and its customers, where both parties benefit and trust each other. The speaker argues that paying for a service should foster a partnership, but instead, they feel treated as an adversary due to the poor quality of the paid service. This concept is central to the video's critique of the customer experience in the digital media landscape.

💡Mainstream Entertainment

Mainstream entertainment refers to popular, widely distributed media content that is typically available through major platforms and services. The video script suggests that the speaker has lost interest in mainstream entertainment due to the negative experiences with paid services and a perceived decline in quality, instead favoring independent or alternative sources of content.

Highlights

The rant discusses the paradox that paying for content often results in a worse experience than pirating it.

The speaker has been advocating for better consumer experiences in digital media for 22 years.

In 20123, there is no excuse for companies not to provide seamless cross-device media experiences.

The speaker's dissatisfaction with YouTube Premium led to a video titled 'Why I would never pay for YouTube Premium ever again'.

The speaker is financially capable and willing to pay for value, but not for an inferior service.

A personal anecdote about trying to watch 'Dmer' on Netflix led to realizing the poor quality of the paid stream.

Using a cheat code revealed that the 4K Netflix stream was actually a low bitrate 720P.

The speaker experimented with a smart TV and found that the stream quality improved significantly when connected directly to Netflix.

The speaker's girlfriend also prefers non-smart TVs to avoid invasive smart features.

The speaker argues that paying customers should not have to resort to workarounds to receive the quality they pay for.

Extensions like 'Netflix 1080p' and 'Netflix higher quality' are mentioned as tools to improve the streaming experience.

The speaker canceled their Netflix subscription due to the poor value for money.

The rant concludes with a call for companies to treat paying customers as partners, not adversaries.

The speaker suggests that piracy is often more convenient and offers a better experience than paid services.

The speaker proposes that if content is only available on platforms with poor customer treatment, it's not worth consuming.

The rant ends with a question to the audience about their views on the speaker's experience and stance on paid vs. pirated content.

Transcripts

hey everybody how's it going I hope you

having a lovely day today I would like

to go over a rant that I've had for

approximately 22 years now which is that

when you pay for Content whether it is a

product a service a game or just a

television show you often get a worse

experience than what you would get if

you pirate it now back 22 years ago and

this whole concept was new of instead of

carrying a portable DVD player with a

book of DVDs you could just carry a

media player that has a hard drive that

has compressed versions of it on it it

was kind of understandable that many

companies had not caught up to the

modern reality that people want the

ability to be able to purchase and view

media across their devices in the way

that they see fit but now that it's

20123 in my opinion there's really no

excuse for the fact that you get a worse

experience when you purchase media than

you do when you pirate it this is

something I went over in this video over

here why I would never pay for YouTube

premium ever again in this video I put

in the thumbnail piracy is completely

Justified I'm talking about the

experience that I had when I was paying

for premium for about 7 years and how

that experience differed from using an

application called redacted when I use

the application that is redacted you

would get a better experience in a

number of ways that I talked about in

that video even though you weren't

paying for it and I'm one of those

people that is absolutely happy to pay

to if I get value for a product or

service I have this is one of the most

common ad homonyms that comes up when I

bring up this argument you know that

it'll you'll always see somebody in the

comments in these types of videos that

goes you're poor or you know get a real

job or why don't you want to pay for

things um I I have a company that I've

had for 15 years that the owner of that

I built from nothing I have a full-time

job and I also have a YouTube channel

with almost 2 million subscribers I am

making this video in a house that I

bought and paid for I have bought and

paid for my vehicle I've bought and paid

for my home I am responsible for

supporting half a dozen people I am uh

I'm not going to get into like exacts of

income needless to say I'm a grown ass

man that stuff does not apply to me if

there's a particular artist that I like

and want to support and I want to see

them live I have no problem paying $250

for a ticket to that event to do so if I

see a YouTube video that I like and I

watched it with an ad blocker on I have

no problem donating 10 or $20 if I felt

that that content creator has brought me

value the criticism that comes up all

the time when somebody brings up this

reality is that you are broke you are a

pleb and they try to shame you into

believing that you should be okay paying

money to get worse service and for me

this argument Falls Flack I am not rich

but I am not broke either and I can

afford to pay for Content products

services and software and I am more than

happy to do so when I see that they

provide me with value so today I would

like to go over what happened when I was

um my girlfriend decided that she wanted

to watch a television show and I decided

that since I'm a grown ass man and I'm

34 years old that I'll stop going my

teenage ways of you know doing what I

would do if I wanted to catch the fish

in my backyard and you know using a net

to catch the fish hint hint cough cough

and actually doing it U properly so this

was a television show that my girlfriend

said that she really liked and she

wanted to see more episodes of it's a

show called dmer and I saw that it was

on Netflix now I had gotten myself a

nice new television which you could see

here and I also have a pretty nice setup

in my living room so I thought I would

pay the extra money to Netflix to be

able to watch this show in 4k so instead

of paying for the cheap plan I pay for

the expensive plan I go to load up

Netflix in Firefox my web browser on my

Linux home theater PC because I would

sooner die then connect my television to

the internet you're not paranoid if

they're after you there's no way in hell

that I'm going to have closed Source

software in my home with a microphone in

it that connects to the internet we are

just

we're not doing that there are a number

of reasons that you shouldn't do that

and I will link many of them below this

here is an LG G3 OLED television that

also has cat scratchers on the side

that's my way of trying to bribe my cat

into not scratching my speaker well

we'll see if that works and all

seriousness this is in the menu of this

television if you go in any one of the

default profiles and you go to privacy

and terms what you'll notice with a

smart television is there an option

called do not sell my personal

information and because we live in a

dystopian world this option is not by

default checked it should be the default

when you pay over $3,000 for a

television that you do not sell my

personal information but even when you

pay that much for a television the

default is that they will sell your

personal data which is why you should

never connect a television to the

internet particularly when these

televisions have microphones built into

them that allow them to listen to what

it is you say in your living room there

are many other settings hidden in here

that talk about being able to see what

it is you're watching or what you're

doing to be able to make recommendations

to you and personalize everything

advertisements to you if you browse

around the television and 100% of those

options is the consumer unfriendly

option and The Advertiser grabs your

data sells it and uses it however they

please option needless to say no smart

TV in my home I hook it up and I noticed

this looks really bad it's not just that

it is low resolution and low bit rate

it's just a badl looking stream and I

realized that there's a cheat code you

could do on Netflix apparently where

you're control shift alt D and when you

hit control shift alt D what you see is

that you are actually getting a low bit

rate 720P stream even though you paid

for 4K so I'm just kind of curious here

I didn't really know anything about how

this works but like a part of my back of

my head thought you know I thought it

was like a paranoid thought to have are

they actually ruining the experience for

somebody who's using a computer because

they want you to use closed Source

platforms that give you more control I'm

like there's no way they're that petty

no way this must just be an old video

that was recorded in low definition that

they only have a low bit rate stream of

or maybe Netflix needs some more money

so they're overcharging people for the

4K ones but sending them 720 P1 there's

no way that this is actually intentional

so I decided just out of curiosity that

I am going to try it on the smart TV so

I set up a separate Network for the

smart TV that can only connect to

Netflix my girlfriend is sitting there

on the couch while I'm doing this and

kind of giggling and I'm actually

sitting there setting up a network that

will only allow my television to connect

to Netflix I connect my television to

the internet after spending 10 minutes

going through every single thing in the

settings to turn off every single ad

thing in it which by the way on a $3,000

LG OLED should be opt in not opt out for

tracking fulg for doing that I and I

noticed that the stream looks like this

now so before it looked like this and

now it looks like this this is not just

higher resolution this is not just the

setting in the television because I

ensured that the settings for the inputs

were matched this is a night and day

difference between these two streams so

it and and here's the best part of it

all if I wanted to do what I would do to

catch one of the fish in my backyard and

uh and use a net

hand hand cough cough I actually could

have gotten a 1080p version of this

instead of the 720p one that they're

sending me so I paid you over $20 a

month and you give for 4K and you give

me 720p but if I didn't pay you I could

get 1080P and the only way to get the

full resolution stream if I pay you is

to use your [ __ ] Clos source

application that is built into a closed

Source television that by default spies

on me and that there is a legit history

with the CIA of hacking those

televisions to turn them into

microphones and this is where the

problem uh begins now luckily I have a

very understanding girlfriend this is

the same woman that was more than happy

to utilize signal as a messenger rather

than text messaging or anything else

that was a tell one in your manag

material tell two is when I said my

apologies for going through all this

rather than watching the show and she

said oh I actually spent a half hour

looking through cataloges to find a

business television for my living room

because all modern quality televisions

can conect to the internet or smart TVs

and I wanted a TV that wasn't smart so

good on you for what you're doing the

fact that my girlfriend is okay that

we're interrupting a date for 30 minutes

so that I can do an experiment and set

up a separate Network to my TV to only

connect to Netflix just to figure out if

I'm getting [ __ ] that's marriage

material right there but that's a topic

for another video this is not Courtney

Ryan or Kevin Samuels we are not a

dating advice Channel needless to say

the one piece of dating advice you'll

get here at Rossman repair group is if

your significant other says that they

spend an extra half hour in a catalog to

try and find a television that does not

connect to the

internet might just be the person you're

going to be having children and

grandchildren with but I

digress this is the reality of the

modern experience I paid you money

because I wanted 4K because you

advertise 4k on your website so that

when I go to your website to view the

video you give me

720p if I had pirated your material I

would have paid nothing for it and I

would have gotten 1080p I am treated

better pirating nflix content then I

actually would be treated paying for

Netflix content and the only way to get

the same treatment on Netflix by uh

paying as I would through piracy is to

use a closed source application on a

device that I cannot verify what

information it is sending off that has a

microphone in it that connects to the

internet now I know somebody's going to

say well Louis you could get 1080p with

Netflix when you pay for it in your

browser if you do your research and you

install an extension which you can do if

you're using Chrome there are extensions

called Netflix 1080p and Netflix higher

quality that try to bring a higher

quality viewing experience I don't know

if it tricks Netflix into thinking that

the DRM is there when it's not or

whatever the hell it is but you can use

an extension like that to get higher

quality and there are a couple of issues

that I have with this the first is that

having to read tutorials in Google to

figure out how to get a high quality

version that's what you should be doing

when you're pirating not when you're

paying somebody 20 to $25 a month for a

service when you are paying for a

service you should not have the Google

Jack [ __ ] it should simply give you the

highest quality possible without you

having to Google workarounds to make

something work I've had my repair

company now for almost 15 years and one

of the reasons that we have as many good

reviews as we do many of them dating

back before I even registered this

YouTube channel is because I understand

that my customers want to pay me for a

product or a service and they want to

feel like I'm their partner they don't

want to feel like I am their adversary

if you want to try to fix your device

yourself I'm not going to hide that

information from you or try and [ __ ]

you and tell you that it's impossible

rather rather I'll come up with a

complete guide that tells you here's

exactly how to avoid paying me if the

manufacturer covers what it is you want

to pay me for under warranty I will not

accept that business unless you

explicitly understand that what it is

you are trying to pay me for is

something the manufacturer will do for

free and you're better off going there

as a result of the way that I conduct my

business my customers feel like I'm

their partner like I have their best

interest in mind they don't feel like

they have to have their third eye open

to figure out how it is I'm trying to

screw them nor do they feel like they

have to download Secret tools and

install them to prevent me from screwing

them and that's an important part of the

relationship the moment that you pay

extra money to get 4k and then you

realize you're actually getting 720p and

you have to Google and do research to

figure out a way to trick the service

into giving you 1080p half the pixels

that you're actually paying for or a

quarter depending on the math at that

point that's an adversarial relationship

I don't want to pay people to enter

adversarial relationships I am more than

happy and most customers are more than

happy to pay pay good money for products

and services but they want to feel like

the creators of those products and

services are their Partners not their

adversaries and the problem that I find

all too often when it comes to media and

piracy is that the company you are

paying is not your partner they are your

adversary yet when it comes to piracy

you will find infinite amounts of Guides

Online that make it as easy as humanly

possible for you to set up your system

to get exactly what you want there is a

community of people that work together

to try to get you what you need and the

best way possible they are not your

adversaries they are your partners and

all too often I find modern companies

treat their customers like adversaries

rather than Partners which is why many

people don't feel good giving them money

and it's one of the reasons that I will

never be giving Netflix money ever again

I pay people to become my partner not my

adversary I have enough adversaries as

it is and I don't pay them if I wanted

to Google and figure out what a part two

file is and what a raar file is and all

of that that probably means that I'm

pirating but when I'm paying good money

for a service you should not have to do

that the second thing is that the 1080p

version that you get as a result of

using that extension is still not nearly

as good as the quality or the bit rate

of the stream that you get when you

stream using the closed s proprietary

application that they put into the smart

TV so you're still not getting as good

an experience on a computer as you would

be getting if you used their locked down

system you are being punished for paying

that's the only way to interpret this

now some may push back and say that that

is an anti-piracy measure that is their

way of protecting their revenue stream

they don't want the original 4K stream

to get out there because that original

4K stream gets out there then people

will stop paying for Netflix and I'm

here to say that I'm not paying for

Netflix ever again anyway so you lose

anytime you implement something like

this where you give me a worse

experience for paying than I would

receive through piracy out of principle

I will not give you a dime I will

happily donate $10 to a random YouTuber

after simply watching One video if I I

thought it was valuable I will happily

spend $250 to $300 to go with my

girlfriend to the Austin Symphony

Orchestra or the ballet I will happily

pay for art I will pay for software I

will pay for Hardware I will pay for my

employee services but what I will never

do out of principle is give you money to

get a worse experience than what I could

get for free because of artificial

restrictions that you have put in place

to screw with me or socially engineer

the experience that is unacceptable and

that should never be rewarded the fact

that I actually paid extra Mone Mone for

an HD plan and not only didn't get 4k I

couldn't even get 1080 [ __ ] P out of

you people I got 720p with some [ __ ]

1 megabit per second looking garbage

stream that is blocks in it that are

bigger than the turds that Oreo lays

after he eats a can of reveal is just

like and you wonder why people pirate

you wonder why there is still such

demand for this 22 years later if I want

a pirate I can view a great quality

stream I can view it on the platform or

the operating system or the device of my

choice I can do so and see with open-

Source software exactly what everything

is doing or I can pay

you to view it in a limited environment

that is literally known for being hacked

by the government so that they could

listen to

you no I am not connecting my television

to the internet because you are a

control freak and I am not giving you

money anymore that is the point at which

I canceled my Netflix account and here

is what I will promise if the thing that

I want to watch is only viewable via

Netflix it's not really worth it and

I'll be honest with you 99% of

mainstream entertainment at this point

it just it does nothing for me anymore I

don't know if it's because I've gotten

older and my tastes have changed and I

genuinely more enjoy podcasts

Independent Media independent art or if

it's just gotten worse over the years

but when there's stuff like writer guil

strikes and things like this I don't

even notice because I'm not involved in

this community at all I'm not saying

that they should be able to compete with

free by offering a better deal because

it's going to be almost impossible to

offer a better deal than what you get

for free even if what you got for free

wasn't great it was free so it's hard to

complain about it but the people

offering you something for free should

not be able to offer you a better

product better quality and better

experience than what you get when you

pay if you are paying all these things

should be better I have no problem

paying $40 a month for new sites that I

like no problem paying $200 to see an

art show that I like no problem paying

when I find Value because paying when I

find something valuable is what empowers

me to ask for value out of my customers

in return When I provide them value the

reason that I don't care if somebody

Stomps walking out of my shop and

they're like I can't believe you're

charging like $900 to replace the hats

in this that's a r off it's because I

know that my employees put hundreds upon

thousands of hours into learning that

skill set I have spent over $30,000 in

all the tools to do that job and it's

very easy to mess that job up I know I'm

offering good value and the reason that

I feel empowered to ask for money when I

offer a good value and a good deal is

because I am willing to pay when I see a

good value or a good deal the problem

nowadays is that the people that are

actually willing to pay for things are

often getting the [ __ ] end of the stick

compared to the people that don't and

then people wonder like why is piracy

rampant why do people use ad blockers I

wonder why would somebody use an ad

blocker we could just go over this with

a YouTube with YouTube let me know if

you use you block origin with Libra wolf

or you use Brave browser with shields

turned on you don't have to give anybody

your address you don't have to confirm

your address but if you use YouTube

premium um not only do you have to pay

but you also have to give away a bunch

of personal data and they may just

decide after you have already paid for

the service that you need to confirm

your address or your account will be put

on hold do you know whose people's

ability to watch videos at free on

YouTube does not get put on hold people

with Libra wolf browser with you block

origin installed or people with brave

browser installed with shields turned on

do you know who does not get this

annoying notification on the screen

people who have a proper updated ad

blocker this person over here is

actually whitelisted youtube.com in

their ad blocker and they are still

getting a message saying that ad

blockers are against YouTube's terms of

service do you know who doesn't get this

screen the people who didn't whitelist

youtube.com in their ad blocker this is

a consistent pattern and it is not

something that has gotten even the

slightest bit better in 22 years if you

pirate you probably get a better

experience back in the day if you wanted

to pay for music you got a 128 KOB pers

second MP3 that was encoded with some

garbage like Zing or blade or whatever

and if you wanted to Pirate it you could

get something that was ripped with exact

audio copy that had a log that was

compressed using flak or monkey audio so

that you retained all the original

quality without any sort of lossy trans

cating and it had no DRM the one you

paid for was lossy poorly transcoded and

had DRM 22 years later you still get a

better experience if you are doing what

again I'm I'm just going outside to my

backyard because I have fish and I'm

just using a net to catch my fish if you

know what I'm saying you get a better

experience that's an excusable it's

unacceptable and it's why more and more

people each day are choosing to turn on

their ad blocker it's why more and more

people each day are choosing to

unsubscribe from those types of services

and find alternative methods of getting

their content or dare I say it just

opting out of the ecosystem altogether

because here's the thing let's say

somebody does say that there's a show on

Netflix that they actually like let's

say my girlfriend say we really want to

watch this thing and it's on Netflix you

know what I'm gonna say let's find

something else I'm not even gonna bother

I'm not going to give you the the

privilege of pirating your content

because this is one saying I'm never

going to forget this uh one music

producer who said it he said you know

you're [ __ ] when nobody even wants to

Pirate your content anymore like that's

how you know you're screwed it's not

when people are it's when nobody wants

to Pirate I don't even want to Pirate

mainstream content anymore I don't want

to give it any attention because there's

so much good stuff out there that I can

watch that is not distributed through

this kind of garbage why should I bother

with yours honest question let me know

what you think in the comments down

below do you believe that I am

overreacting to this do you believe that

I have the right to be mad after paying

over $20 a month for 4K streaming when I

get like this one megabit per second

720p again a bigger blocks in it than

Oreo's [ __ ] after he eats a can

reveal it's kind of annoying it is it's

it one of the most annoying things in

life is to get a worse experience when

you do the right thing than the people

who are the criminals let me know what

you think in the comments down below see

you in the next video bye now