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If Ice cream was free there would be no ice cream lmao

SODA!!!

@@qazqazqazqaz100 somebody else pays for it = free?

Free ice cream and soda in all schools.

if the odd couple were to ever get a remake i couldn't imagine better casting than asmon and linus - they've so so so so much in common but would drive each other fucking insane

Linus should have capped off his vid with "... also the Starforge icon looks like a dick. Thanks for watching..."

@@ZeranZeran You aint very bright are you ?

@@ZeranZeran No one has tried to get anyone to feel sorry for them ? Both asmon and Linus explained very well why Google wants to charge for 4k and 4k ONLY. and if you didnt watch the video please don't comment.

Lol

Lots of people understand the problem with 4k. Linus is correct and asmon is right for backing him up. Bitrate and resolution at 4K = huge files and requires monetization on youtube's side.

Not like hes poor

​@@Thickcurves I completely agree that it's in KZfaq's interest to monetize 4K I just disagree with who should be paying. If a KZfaqr wants to upload 4K videos they should have to pay for it, not the people that are not getting paid for the revenue that it creates.

@@MMMHOTCHEEZE so then no one will use the Service?

​@@keksjanik2138 Because there's viable competitors that they can move to? The point is the people that create the problem (KZfaqrs) are going to benefit with KZfaq's "solution". Meanwhile the viewers will get worse content unless they pay for a problem they didn't create.

720 is more important imo. If you watch gaming content it's hard to see stuff like league of legends cool downs or hp values. I never use 1080 or higher on mobile. 1440 on pc

@@l-dog hopfully the USA is one of them county that has access to high speed internet

@@furydeath ????????????? we got fiber dumby

@@Rlm77731 what 10% of the country has it wow USA #1 minus the millions who don't

@@Rlm77731 my town said that we were going to get fiber… that was 6 years ago lmao gotta love living in a rural area lol

@@Rlm77731 Comparing to DSL connections per flat or house, you're at the start of having fiber.

premium obliterated that problem

KZfaq trying to kill itself with all these ads

It's not the KZfaqrs themselves, some of these are put in by KZfaq because of how many clicks they get per video

@@EggEnjoyer That's like saying I wouldn't need a respirator if the room wasn't full of toxic fumes. When the amount of ads exceed the length of the video, there is an issue.

I’ve never seen 15 ads on video just like you’ve never seen the skip ad button

I think the price increase is only for the family plan. I’m pretty sure the individual plan pricing hasn’t changed.

I live in Southeast Asia on an individual Premium plan, prices are the same so far and I've honestly noticed none of what people've been complaining about in recent months. I guess one of the benefits of living in a less than stellar (economically speaking) country is that big corporations like Alphabet and Steam know we'd just not bother if costs exceed a certain threshold lmao.

it's a $2 dollar increase in america. why is it so much in canada?

@@thatdawg2021 1 CAD = 0,73 USD 5 CAD = 3,65 USD

@@wykydytron Imagine people wanting to support the content creators they watch with their views

It doesn’t reduce the compression, it guarantees videos are encoded to vp9 compression for better quality.

@@beyonddisbelief6635 you get the point though

Something to note is that uploading in 4k isn't being restricted, if I recall correctly. Only the playback is going to be locked behind Premium

You need 1440p upload to trigger vp9. I've upscaled video to meet that requirement to make 1080p look hugely better

@@BloodSkinDOTcom I don’t get the point

You clearly weren't around during the early days of the internet, when websites would force-open hordes of links and popups, some of which would play annoying sounds. Ad blockers were an absolute must. They still are. Rich people pretending to be starving isn't anything new either.

@@asteria9963 On top of that, by the same logic, switching channels during commercials or going for a leak would be piracy as well. Either every single person is a pirate, or the logic doesn't hold.

@@asteria9963 I were and this is exactly what i have written?!?

And not put 10 minute unskippable shit, or DESTROY web design with atrocious ad placement.

Google ads aren't unsafe generally. But they're definitely annoying. I just pay for premium I've been using $5/mo student account for years, even though I graduated lol. Student email is still active for some reason

@@austint1151 X. Pretty sure theyve delivered malware before. Once ads start paying my net bill, then I'll consider it, but as it is I pay to use the internet, and I refuse to pay to be served ads

@@slamshift6927 ...you aren't paying the ad servers for your Internet. That's like saying as long as you pay for your car to drive you refuse to pay gas, until the gas stations start paying for your car. If everyone thought like you and used AdBlock, no free services would exist. The ads pay for your free access

⁠@@slamshift6927I’m late to the party but I agree with ads being unbearable on KZfaq. I’ve been on KZfaq since 2011/12, this account is 2013. It was so much simpler back in those KZfaq days, only 1 ad that you could always skip. It’s not like that anymore. I’ve had a 12hr long ad before (skippable), like why does an ad need to be that long?? Double ads with no skip is also idiotic, i would rather have ad block and stop the income flowing in than sit through all that bs. I don’t mind ads and I understand that KZfaq is a much bigger platform than back then, but I’d rather not have them shoved in my face all the time. Edit: I don’t use twitch but ads are worse on there I’m pretty sure.

You need more Tate in your life

@@sjoerdsjoerdsma1205 TopG

They do look like they were part of the same clone batch

Hell yes 😂

@@beekaye1221 bwahahaha. Bruh🤣

i have a 28" 4k one and watching on 1440 is okay to. But lowers isn't nice

@@ScottLovenberg if its under 1440 you notice within seconds. Also, i do sit right in front of my screen. Standard 80 cm deep desk so probaly 60 to 70 cm distance

Your TV has problems then. 4K and 1080p (at least the common ones) have the same 16:9 aspect ratio.

yeah it's unfortunate, i always liked seeing witty comments and stuff now it's just a bot fest

sorry to be that guy but you are in the comments section, so :)

I checked replies to see if a bot responded to you 😂

But how else are you going to find hot singles in your area?

But I want to give you my credit card info.

so you probably paid YT about 450 euro by now? what if you got to keep that money and stil being able to watch everything you did. thats me, i saved 450 euro by just not giving it to them, the ads so far is not a big deal to me i click it away after 5 sec and i never buy something that is advertized anyway most people watch YT on the phone anyway and then 720p is enough for a clear picture

@@MRdeLaat 480p is ok ppi

@@MRdeLaat It only sounds bad in the grand scheme of things, but keep in mind you only spend like $10 a month. With the same logic, you probably spend $10 a month on stuff you don't really need anyways, like on your hobbies, so when you say "Saved $450" you've probably not at all, and just spent it on something else than KZfaq premium. Everybody's got their hobbies and what they like to spend their money on

​@@MRdeLaat If I wasn't paying for premium I'd be paying for Spotify, this way I get youtube premium, creators are happy, I'm happy and I just use youtube music instead of spotify and yes obviously pirating music is still a thing but like most things people will pay for a service when it's more convenient than pirating it and music streaming does seem to be that way for 90% of people

@@kokonotsu229 nah i draw the line there becouse everything below 720 p is stuttery 30 FPS 720p you get 60 fps video

I was always cool with YT ads... until the first time I got a 7 minute ad on a 30 second video.

I got a 40 minute political ad with no skip option, Had to refresh the page.

@@simonwinn8757 when the lego movie was an ad for black Friday there was no skip button for me

Another Addblocker enojoyer. Godspeed brother

Based

Lol imagine needing adblocks to avoid ads! It just Buffles me? Amazes? (I actually am not sure what words to use)

@@dingickso4098 is it chrome based?

@@tenchu3770 I'm using Brave Browser haven't seen TwitchAd in years

always wanted a Razr back in the day lmao

Exactly, there are SO many it's maddening.

Yeah 2 unkippable per 2 videos crazy

how many ads you get depends on companies that pay for those ads, if there is an economic recession then companies will not spend as much money advertising their products, that means you get more ads on youtube because ad revenue goes down, so they have to compensate by showing more ads

@@sten260 incorrect. i am an advertiser, if more people are buying ads then the ads are more expensive for us. if less people are buying then it's less expensive. there's only a certain amount of ad inventory.

@@anajaz9459 yes and if ads are cheap, youtube also makes less money because there isn't enough demand, that's why they are cheap, which means they have to show more ads to make more money

Yup

I got upset at KZfaq for something they did and tried to live for a month without it. I came begging back for my legacy price of 9.99 a month

Time stamp?

@@SamFromItalia 18:16

Well, technically you pay by watching adds. And if you don't watch adds you're "technically" pirating. But I still agree with you. For me I also have my youtube window on a 1080p monitor while I game and stuff on my 4k monitor

@@Minderz good point. Ppl often overlook the old adage “no such thing as a free lunch”. Free content is never free for long. It’s unsustainable. Period. You will have to pay one way or another or simply not get your content. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

@@seanlinehan1136 you already paid when you bought your 4k tv/monitor, and you're paying for the internet speed it takes to stream 4k. Don't believe corporations, they will come up with any excuse to charge more money

@@wolfsbane9985 but zero dollars of the money you mentioned goes to the service provider, I.e. KZfaq.

Not to mention there isn't much content which justifies 4K on this platform

should check out youtube tweaks but i just checked out enhancer and i like their miniplay while scrolling comments so now ill use both lol

If you have a 4K TV as your PC screen you can probably afford a KZfaq subscription, or cancel your Spotify subscription in favour of KZfaq and use KZfaq Music instead

@@HeresorLegacy I don't have Spotify nor any other music streaming services that I pay for. KZfaq Premium is 12€/month, more than twice as much as I'd be ready to pay.

Just get YT Premium.

Just get premium, it's 3 starbuck coffee a month

@@HeresorLegacy not sure how expensive you think 4K TVs are? I mean, what they mentioned is definitely up there, but that's not representative of all of them whatsoever.

Agreed. I set mine to a default 720p. It’s plenty good enough.

They would be insane to make you unable to select 720

For a lot of content creators they wont be able to provide the content that people like you, me, and everyone like watching on here and work a full/ part time job.

@@goldenmythics1458 that's a excuse I produce, do vocals, mix music which takes a lot of work while working. Some content creators just do react content or other works plus they still getting money regardless of people using ad block. The average watcher probably don't know how to download these type of programs lol. There is probably a high percentage people watching without ad block and a low percentage that's using it. We are small why go after the ones that takes shortcuts to life

i have an addon that just locks it at max, because every time i open a tab youtube tries to fuck me by saying its at 1080p then actually having it at like 480p. (KZfaq Auto HD + FPS)

thats how you slowly turn into a zoomer man. for real.

HDR, High Refresh Rate, High Resolution. Each individually will be an improvement but if you get a monitor that has them all, i.e HDR, 120Hz, 4K Monitor the difference is staggering.

Also that pay wall is annoying for 1 particular reason, I like to see new video game gameplay in 4K resolution. If there's no 4k resolution I won't know if the graphics are actually "Next Gen". In any other situation I would agree, but when it comes to being able to view a product you wish to buy, I want 4k for free..

That's how games started with monetizing stuff in a way that people said "well you don't really need that" and now we're having half finished games with most of the essence stuffed into dozens of extra purchases.

If we let this one slide, next ones to be locked behind the paywall will be 1440p and 1080p. And before you know it youll be back watching videos in 240p because all other resolutions are locked behind tiered subscription and pay per view model At the end of the day, it still costs youtube and google cents, but they are asking for a full dollar. Because f!ck you pay us money. Ex!ortion is what this is

@@Mabswer idk, i think that could be true, if it wasnt google. they have no need to drive this product into insane paywalls because they already earn millions off ads, if anything's gonna get worse it will be ads. no point driving people away with costs, when this is probably a very low source of income for google to some degree. but the thing is physical storage, there literally gonna need to build more super computers just to host that sort of content, so they might try justify it with that.

@@fessy4 counter that with ads, just look what happend to those, it started with 1 add once in a blue moon, and look where were now at.. Every video has 5 to 10 unskipable adds at the begining, middle and end. Incentive is there and its greed plain and simple

People want everything for free sadly, even tho people at KZfaq are working and their services cost them money, KZfaq more than once was close to shutting down because they didnt earn enough, im more than happy to pay a small $9.99 if it means endless entertainment and i get the best music service included with the price KZfaq Music having more music than any other service...

Yes, I use the "auto quality for youtube" extension. Forces quality of your choice. never had isseus since.

​@Hudson-smm I have the same experience, it's not due to bad internet. I have been forcing 1080p for at least a year now and have NEVER (yes, that absolute) experienced problems with buffering. I do tend to keep multiple YT tabs open, and I'm often not the only one in my household watching a YT vid. Multiple connections to the same IP could very well be a factor for YT deciding to do this. edit: I should mention that I had been watching 1080p before that change without issues as well. From 1 day to the next youtube just started putting me to 480p on every vid even after previously putting it to 1080p. This happened at the start of the vid, not after 2-5 min.

Happens to me all the time, even with the best Wi-Fi in the area.

I used to not care a few years ago on my android smartphone. There was an ad at the beginning every 4~5 videos and closing and reopening sometimes removed the ad. That was when it was fine. Then with every update the ads increased and now I'm using vanced and get some ads in the feed and that's alright. When it gets worse I'll migrate to revanced and Google can go suck 100% dick again.

@@xXDESTINYMBXx vanced truly is the savior

Agreed. There are many things that don't really warrant it. When I bought a new TV I contemplated paying the money for 4K, but realized the difference wasn't significant enough to impact my experience for the cost difference at the time. Like shit, I wear glasses during the day and take em off when I get home so everything is gonna be a bit fuzzy anyway 😂

Yeah, if it's not a full production regular show it doesn't need the quality. There is no world to get immersed in like a game. I'm watching news and stuff like Asmongold here.

I wonder why, me, my family and friends used it since 2006-2007. I guess the increase in quality had a huge effect, I remember the cinema mode(which is the standard video size now) not even the full screen would make videos almost unwatchable

The advancements in internet connection has something to do with it as well. I still remember the time when I had to wait 30 minutes to an hour for a 3 and a half minute video to complete buffering at 240p, I think. YT didn't have the figures before. Now, the entire family of 9 can watch from their individual phones and the family TV in 4K at the same time without worrying about buffering.

pretty much

Shut up you broke 720 monitor having nerd.

@@PhilipAlexanderHassialis speak for yourself.

You can skip any ad that is over 30 seconds long though

Video cards can't give you 100 fps at 4k anyway and wont for years.

@@RorysonTV I can get 4k at almost 120 on some games with an i7 and 3070. Just depends on the game.

@@shimaphys exactly haha though once it hits 240hz it's Essentially unnoticeable anymore beyond that. It seems like a hard cap, and then anything beyond 165 is a softcap where returns diminish at a exponential rate on the way to 240hz

@@noname-gp6hk you can adjust UI scaling.

They don’t care if you own a 4k display.

Remember the color and popping image has nothing to do with resolution. The monitor overall has better panel than your old one.

I recently upgraded from 1980x1080 to 3840x2160 but I did that to play games and watch movies. I am using a smart TV QLED HDR 4k and fast PC to watch and play everything on 4k. The 4k video in youtube in my current experience is that is nothing like a video on my PC or a game that I am running. I still watch videos here on 1080p or 720p so what do we care. They should just charge people who want to upload in 4k, not the viewers. Most of KZfaqrs make good money now days, and we support them. Is not this enough?

That's literally already a thing

@@Thanatos2k “Movies”

@@Thanatos2k yeah but for the most part they aren't the same thing, movies are independently made by KZfaq OR outsourced from film companies, I was talking more about videos made by people KZfaqrs, like a system where you can only watch x videos per day before you have to pay a subscription. Movies are a product, videos like these are not, really, KZfaq's product/property

@@Thanatos2k mate you aren't listening; movies are created or bought by KZfaq - they have directly invested into them, and sell them as such. Random videos on the platform are not OWNED by KZfaq, they run ads to make money off them but don't own them or restrict access to them. They host and display the videos. The site itself, its reputation and popularity, as well as it's ads are the product: they "sell" this product to video creators in return for and revenue off of the videos. KZfaq for the most part does not actually sell much to consumers, they "sell" to creators to use ads on their videos. In the case of movies they actually directly buy or authorise sale of the movie, this is not true for videos from asmongold or Linus. These are fundamentally different. Either way, it's just semantics and doesn't mean much

@@Alex-wq5lw Dude, Thanatos is a fucking Corpo. Why do you think he would understand human concepts like "passion"?

hol up

Good ads work . It’s been demonstrated countless times and why marketing is such a massive field .If an ad is done properly and is entertaining it creates positive associations with the brand. I don’t even know any other vpn company besides nordvpn. I am not looking to buy one but if I was looking to pick one it would naturally be one of the first I research about even if I end up not choosing them.

the majority of people are not like you. The NPC meme is very much real. The most in your face, annoying, intrusive ads sell product because stupid people see them, they get the product name into their head, then when they go to buy a product their brain pulls up the last ad the saw and they buy that product, with zero consideration that the ad was annoying when they watched it.

what if you are going to buy a game what you like but before you buy it you see ad of it?

with that you say you don't have any consoles and we know that is wrong :)

@@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065 Iit should be in the premium no ad sub...even say make it 10-12$, no more, to have guaranteed 4k, not fake 4k, on 70%+ of the videos....and it cant happen without 2-3 years going by imo

@@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065 I've been a premium subscriber since it came out 😂 I watch youtube videos in the background while I do other stuff so skipping ads isn't an option. I originally had the subscription for the music streaming years ago then they added in KZfaq premium and I started watching a lot more KZfaq than I was streaming music. I don't think I could go back to ad-supported KZfaq unless I wasn't really watching that much content on here.

@@B1u35ky I mean, nobody really needs a TV. I do most of my watching on a 29" ultrawide monitor because I usually watch KZfaq while gaming or paying bills or doing something productive on my other monitor. I don't watch TV unless I'm watching with someone else. That doesn't change the fact that as TV technology gets better, older tech will come down in price and larger sets will get cheaper and since the average TV buyer doesn't know what to buy other than screen size, that becomes the most important thing to them. 80+ inch TVs are already a thing you can get without them being made to order. There are going to be lots of people that buy a $500 95" TV in 5 years and put it in a space that is suitable for a 50" TV. Ten years ago I knew someone who put a 65" DLP TV in a tiny apartment where your knees were literally like 3 feet from the TV while you sat on the couch. Nothing has changed except the technology.

Two newly rich people start being pro business? What are the odds?

@@mathewcalaway7684 "newly rich"

@@wastedviking6280 yup. you don't have to pay, but why would you(or they) block ads XD

@@woodcutta6461 because of what i said

@@woodcutta6461 only reason I would want youtube to go away is so I don’t have to read comments like yours. 😂

I am all for competition. Copyright crap is lame, for music. It's on youtube and we can't play that same music while streaming.

@@ComicWorldd stick to TV then

The plugin is really inaccurate tho. IIRC it only shows dislikes from other people with the plugin or something. Asmon has said the plugins number is always way different than what he can see on the backend.

@@mikonson4091 So I've never actually looked into this, but from what I've heard it varies a lot creator to creator. Probably based on how much of their audience is using it. I mean, if a video has a huge number of dislikes in the addon, then it probably has a lot in truth. I doubt it will say there are more dislikes than there actually are, unless it's trying to scale it's users views to dislikes up to the total views on the video, or something similar. People who frequently dislike things are probably the ones who care enough to go install it.

@@gavinwhite9521 its inaccurate since not all people use the addon but it is 100% sure the dislikes is at least what is shown in the addon. Basically the dislikes are bigger than what is shown to you. Does it make it useless? Lets say in a tutorial video it has thousands dislike but in actuality it has ten thousands dislikes. Its still useful to skip that video especially if the likes is lower than the dislikes being shown.

people always say they have to pay for extra sauce. i never had to pay for sauce. heck...I even gone to mcdonalds without buying any food and ask for sauce and i get it for free