Youtube now has 4x playback speed, with a twist... - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2025, 03:03:11 pm
content: You need to pay for premium to select 4x playback speed, though, I was looking for 2.5x or 3x. 4x is too fast... Talk about desperate for money...Now, Youtube is forcing me to use a YT downloader, which skips the commercials, and allows me to use my own media player to get 2.5x or 3x playback speed. Brilliant.

author: oPossum
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2025, 03:07:56 pm
content: This Chrome extension will allow any speed playback.https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=en

author: metrologist
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2025, 05:16:12 pm
content: Excellent - I always watch in 2x and wish it was a bit faster on some channels, and that the setting would stick for all videos.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 11:50:13 am
content: I just pay for premium, if we all did they could ditch the adverts and not mine our data!

author: NE666
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 11:57:31 am
content: Quote from: Simon on October 08, 2025, 11:50:13 amYou're forgetting the corporate obsession with continual growth. If we all pay now, in no time at all they'll be introducing 'ultra premium', and reintroducing 'the stick' in order to drive us there.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 12:20:52 pm
content: Quote from: NE666 on October 08, 2025, 11:57:31 amand if noone wants to pay or watch ads they have to come up with more and more intrusive ads and mining. I don't understand why people somehow think google should host and stream enormous amounts of data for free as if they are some kind of charity

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 12:36:13 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on October 08, 2025, 11:50:13 amyou forgot the "/s"Quote from: langwadt on October 08, 2025, 12:20:52 pmI don't understand why they have to push for endless growth by exploiting our lives when the company is in clear good shape.Applied to everyone, not just google. Cost of service x keeps going much higher that the increase of cost of living, and regular workers at x certainly not getting richer in the process

author: NE666
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 12:42:02 pm
content: Quote from: langwadt on October 08, 2025, 12:20:52 pmSome of us don't. We don't even use adblockers. We tolerate ads, as we recognise the value proposition.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 07:53:06 pm
content: Quote from: NE666 on October 08, 2025, 11:57:31 amI'm just sick of the something for nothing culture combined with the bitching about bad business practices.Bill gates must have been right when he wrote that letter urging people not to give stuff away, look at where it has got us. Any open source software like a linux distro is free to be a piece of garbage with unhelpful developers because you pay nothing for it and it's so open you can go program your own fixes and sure you can use this online platform for free if you let us control your mind.....

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 07:54:49 pm
content: Quote from: NE666 on October 08, 2025, 12:42:02 pmthen you must have a very poor measure of yourself, degraded to watch "content" with more add stuffing overhead than any communication protocol overhead ever invented.

author: NE666
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 08:30:56 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on October 08, 2025, 07:54:49 pmI think you've seriously lost the plot if you believe that access to multiple lifetime's worth of of high quality content in return for watching just a few seconds of an advert before immediately pressing 'skip' is degrading to the viewer, vs the enrichment available to them in terms of learning.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 10:00:01 pm
content: Quote from: NE666 on October 08, 2025, 08:30:56 pmIf you skip the ad the content creator and youtube essentially get nothing. No difference from using an adblocker.If you watch the ad, that might be 1-10c of revenue for youtube and the creator, and you waste 30s+ of your time.I'd rather just pay the content creator $10 directly, which equates to 1 year+ worth of ads to them.https://www.saasgenius.com/blog-business/youtube-ads-do-youtubers-get-paid/

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 10:12:12 pm
content: isn't it more like a fraction of a cent per view?

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2025, 11:22:14 pm
content: Quote from: langwadt on October 08, 2025, 10:12:12 pmSee the link, if its non-skippable then yes its some small fraction of a cent, essentially nothing.If its a 5 minute ad for an xray machine and you are dentist living in California, and you watch the whole thing, it could be worth 30c or more.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 12:12:35 am
content: Quote from: Simon on October 08, 2025, 07:53:06 pmThen take that up with Google/Facebook/Xitter/Duck Duck Go/LinkedIn/Instagram, etc., etc.The ones who "gave" us all that stuff for free (when as everyone knows, if something is free thenyouare the product), got everyone--myself included--hooked on "something for nothing" and is now monetizing everything as quick as they can.I feel 0% guilt over this, BTW. If it was free yesterday, why is it no longer free today?

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 12:25:56 am
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on October 09, 2025, 12:12:35 amdo you work for free?

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 12:40:57 am
content: Quote from: langwadt on October 09, 2025, 12:25:56 amNo. What the actual fuck does that have to do with what we're discussing here?Didn't you read what I wrote?All that stuff used to be free.Now they want to take that away from us.How would you expect people to react to that?

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 12:45:01 am
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on October 09, 2025, 12:40:57 amyou expect everyone at google to work for free and bring money to work so they can pay for servers and bandwidth?

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 01:00:53 am
content: Quote from: langwadt on October 09, 2025, 12:45:01 amWhat a bunch of horseshit.They weren't working for free 5-10 years ago and managed to pay for their servers and bandwidth, as you well know.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 06:45:42 am
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on October 09, 2025, 12:12:35 amyou use the service, the provider sets the price, not you. Your only choice is if you want to pay the price and use the service.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 01:17:33 pm
content: Quote from: NE666 on October 08, 2025, 11:57:31 amOf course. That's how business works. And yes, customers paying for something in particular is a key indicator for any business that the concept works, and an obvious incentive to do more of the same later on. Until that's crossed a threshold and customers stop buying, and the business model collapses.Regarding increasing playback speed of videos and considering it looks like a feature that's in high demand enough that not only the feature is available, but it's monetized to some degree, isn't that just saying that many (if not most?) videos posted on video platforms are a waste of time (and resources) and that the same content could be given in 1/2, 1/4 or maybe even 1/10 of the video time? It's just a gigantic waste. Of course, the increased video times (not justified by content alone) are just, all in all, for monetization reasons.Sure, on the other end of the spectrum are "shorts", which are a disgrace in their own right, much too short to convey any meaningful content and just the epitome of clickbait.

author: u666sa
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 01:21:45 pm
content: Mine shows up to 2. There is no option for 4 with a red P marking.

author: u666sa
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 01:25:11 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on October 08, 2025, 11:50:13 amWRONG! Just pay for a VPN.It's more useful. You connect to onemagic country, and there are no ads.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 01:49:03 pm
content: Quote from: u666sa on October 09, 2025, 01:21:45 pmJust go to any talk show or news video and just scroll down the playback speed list. It wont show up in some videos like music videos.Since barely anyone thinks about the possibility of 'Payed' YouTube, I believe it is there as a gimmick. I cant imagine understanding anything at 4x speed unless you are listening to an audio book with a super slow narrator.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 05:44:13 pm
content: Quote from: BrianHG on October 09, 2025, 01:49:03 pmHeh; try watching any Louis Rossman video at 4X speed. Sheesh, I can barely understand him at normal speed.(Not that his videos aren't quite good. It's just that he talks so damn fast.)

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 05:49:31 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on October 08, 2025, 07:53:06 pmBad business practices are a problem irrespective, of whether something is free i.e. funded entire by advertising, or paid.QuoteI'm not aware of Bill Gates writing a letter.Open source software is widely used and works perfectly well. Most of the Internet is run off Linux servers. Fair enough, you might not like it, but it's widely believed to a suboptimal choice for a desktop operating system, which I believe is how you use it.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 07:01:53 pm
content: Back in the early days Bill Gates had a letter published that was along the lines of people should pay for software:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_HobbyistsWhat I am saying it that with the exception of server software where people are paying money for linux and expect support and quality in the free world you are kind of expected to sort your own problems out, no one is responsible for it, no none owns it. People would never dream of paying for it but they can't expect anything.These days the expectation is that services are offered free, but then there is uproar when people find out how these companies fund these services, and I'm like.... Why are you so surprised, what did you expect.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 08:13:53 pm
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on October 09, 2025, 05:44:13 pmLouis pre-accelerates his videos. You can find some old ones which are normal speed, mostly the live ones.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2025, 09:11:02 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on October 09, 2025, 07:01:53 pmI don't have a problem with paying for a service or software, as a general principle. Is the business practices of many companies which annoy me.The problem with a lot of proprietary software is it's money for old rope. The file formats are secret so all your data effectively becomes part-owned by the software company. Once you're locked in, they keep feeding you with updates which are mostly bug fixes, rather than new features and also introduce new bugs of their own.

author: lugaw
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2025, 12:36:43 am
content: Just look at what happened to video games and software applications. We were all paying fair price and what did they do? They wanted more so we are now being forced to pay subscription based and we are not even given an old version to view our files when we stop paying.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2025, 09:11:22 pm
content: Quote from: lugaw on October 10, 2025, 12:36:43 amThis is why I don't buy any software. As I said, I don't have a problem with the idea, but it just doesn't work for me in practice.I use paid software where I work, but none of what I've used is worth paying for. I objectively prefer what I use at home which doesn't cost me anything.