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cung commented on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly anderegg.ca/2025/09/08/yo... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

makeitdouble · 4 months ago

I'm arguing that youtube should be paid for actual features. For instance membership and super chats are clearly labeled as extra content. Member only content is the same.

You pay for a specific thing that is produced by a creator and provided by Youtube. "Pay to remove the ads we're pushing" is none of that.

On Youtube being free, this is their business choice, and also the way they crush the competition and cement a near monopoly on the market. If it was a public service NGO I'd see it from a different angle, but it's not.

cung · 4 months ago

Would you then argue for Youtube to take the Netflix path and not provide non-paying users anything?

cung commented on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly anderegg.ca/2025/09/08/yo... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

kelseydh · 4 months ago

My gripe with Youtube Music is that the bitrate quality of their music is lower than Tidal or even Spotify. YTM audio files that are actually on Youtube will only stream in 128kbps.

cung · 4 months ago

I’m surprised to hear that. I just switched from Spotify to Youtube Music and found the audio quality to be way better, even though I had Spotify set to high.

cung commented on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly anderegg.ca/2025/09/08/yo... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

cung · 4 months ago

I’m a paying customer, but my biggest issue is that the content and suggestions themselves are still ads. I feel like I am paying to remove ads from within my ads.

The videos I am being recommended are still about how natural McDonalds food is, how this natural supplement from XYZ is disrupting healthcare and how this coffee machine will revolutionize the way I make coffee.

If the recommendation algorithm would be a bit less corporate, I’d be a happy customer. That, plus Apple Watch standalone Youtube Music app.

cung commented on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality english.elpais.com/cultur... · Posted by u/geox

pas · 5 months ago

my nothing phone (1) full of very ugly scratches (and one especially ugly testament on a corner to me dropping it one too many time) was stolen a few months ago while I was in a house of worship (I was introducing my favorite girlfriend to the forbidden pleasure of dipping fries into mcfreeze ice cream with caramel - and while in this trance state...)

anyway, the new Nothing phone (3a) is amazing batterywise!

cung · 5 months ago

Is this written by AI or why does this make no sense to me?

cung commented on US ice cream makers say they'll stop using artificial dyes by 2028 apnews.com/article/ice-cr... · Posted by u/geox

barbazoo · 5 months ago

The question was about "need" and no flavor "needs" dye.

cung · 5 months ago

To top it off, the issue isn’t dyes, it’s artificial dyes. You can still dye your mint ice cream green, it will just be a slightly lighter shade of green.

cung commented on The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News refactoringenglish.com/to... · Posted by u/sharjeelsayed

01HNNWZ0MV43FF · 9 months ago

That's why I changed my name to a ULID

cung · 9 months ago

cung commented on Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs youtube.com/shorts/2ntx91... · Posted by u/m348e912

cung · a year ago

What does this even mean

cung commented on DeepSeek FAQ stratechery.com/2025/deep... · Posted by u/ianrahman

libertarian1 · a year ago

Has anyone asked it yet what happened on Tiananmen Square in 1989?

cung · a year ago

”Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.”

cung commented on Show HN: Prioritise your to-do list with Eisenhower Matrix, and break them down zendo.cc/... · Posted by u/peterudokaa

aftergibson · a year ago

When I see these comments I always think of the Dropbox announcement and “but I can just do this with an ftp server”, however in this case it’s a staggeringly small feature set to be charging(or considering charging for something). Maybe as a desktop app with some means to sync with a todo app, but by itself I can do this with any bit of tech.

cung · a year ago

Why is everyone referring to this one single post all of a sudden

cung commented on Ask HN: What do you use to quickly generate charts & graphs? · Posted by u/hardwaresofton

cung · a year ago

I’ve liked using https://draw.io

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