Was trying to watch something about a gun that I was looking at in a forum, and the link led to a youtube video that wouldn’t play.

I was puzzled, but then I noticed that the video said it was for members only. I was perplexed, and I subscribed to the channel, but obviously that’s not what it meant. I needed to be some sort of paid member to view the video.

I guess we’re in the stages of the internet where things that were once free, and a sort of wild west as it were, like youtube, are becoming so monetized that eventually I just won’t have to worry about wasting time watching youtube because there is no way that I’m buying a subscription just to watch short form factor videos.

Anybody else experienced this?

  • Cold Hotman@nrsk.noEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I subscribe directly to YouTube through RSS. I get everything a channel releases so I get quite a few of these. Its for some paid channel membership thing I think.

    It’s even worse than getting an RSS post that a new video is released and when I check it out it’s blocked - Says video will premiere in so-and-so many hours, with a countdown on the video page. It’s a video, children make them. Big whoop.