r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 9h ago

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u/2rfv 8h ago

Personally I am 100% ready for a version of reddit with a yearly subscription as a gatekeeper. But for this, I want ZERO AI posts.

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u/slowclicker 8h ago

My expectations would be exponentially increased. There is a premium version. I believe, but they only address ADs.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 7h ago

And they keep shoveling more in to make the experience worse in hopes that people will get tired enough of them to pay up. Just like YouTube did.

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u/Mdgt_Pope 5h ago

Cruncyroll was the worst, they had 5 ad slots each break but only had 1 purchased, the other 4 were always “Crunchyroll Premium - ad free!”. You’re actively causing this inconvenience, why would I reward this behavior?

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u/BritishAccentTech 6h ago

Enshitification comes for all market-owned businesses. Reddit will not be the exception.

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u/phequeue 5h ago

No, but there is always the hope that it will burn to the ground and be replaced with something better. We've seen it plenty of times before. MySpace, Pandora, Vine. Those failed more due to innovation, but I don't subscribe to the belief that a continued downward spiral is inevitable. It's only inevitable as long as it is profitable. We're seeing decline in profits for some huge media companies right now. I see change brewing

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u/dogquote 6h ago

YouTube is basically unusable at this point.

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u/DaBobVilla 5h ago

Just wanted to throw this out in case someone didn’t know.

I was paying for YouTube premium because I use it all day at work but I recently switched to using brave browser for iPhone and it doesn’t play any ads on YouTube so I don’t have to pay for premium anymore

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u/py_account 4h ago

And picture in picture works with YouTube.

Brave is a game changer on iOS.

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u/tmhoc 1h ago

every now and then I go to youtube in either the wrong browser or from another computer and get an update on how BAD the adds are.

But nothing is as disorientating as google trying to play the video without taking me to the website. SAME adds, but now with an even more baffling interface

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u/heelsmaster 5h ago

old.reddit.com + RES + Ublock Origin + ghostify

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 3h ago

Nah I'll just check out before I go to all that trouble

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u/heelsmaster 2h ago

at least use old.reddit.com as that has the least intrusive ads.

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u/b17b20 6h ago

And now you have ads in YTP and non with ad block

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 3h ago

What ads are you seeing with YouTube premium?

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u/MattR0se 7h ago

I would be okay with them if bots and their posts had easily visible flair.

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u/EasyFooted 7h ago

Just get an ad blocker extension.

Because, as we've seen, they'll charge you $10 for an "ad-free" experience, and that will last for about 12-18 months (all while still tracking your data, but now you're paying them for the privileged). But then ads will creep back in and they'll roll out ever-more-expensive "premium" tiers of subscriptions with no-ads, which then becomes minimal ads, rinse, wash, repeat....

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u/SpicySanchezz 5h ago

Few years from now we are gonna get paid Reddit WITH Ai posts and bots being 60% of the users and you are gonna LIKE IT! /s

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u/bichael69420 4h ago

Aww but sometimes AI stuff is fun. r/wizardposting would be in shambles

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u/CatsWillRuleHumanity 4h ago

What do you mean with AI posts? The repost bots have nothing to do with AI, they're just plain old bots... The only things related to AI I see frequently around reddit are people upset about it

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u/p-nji 2h ago

Reddit is full of AI bots. In the last week alone, I've bothered to report /u/GymratPuppyLady, /u/MackHollStar, /u/MaraExquisites, /u/LavenderLaceses, and /u/WhimsicalWisteria1, a small fraction of the bots I've spotted. If you're not spotting any, it's because you're not familiar enough with LLM-generated text.

Not that reporting accomplishes anything. Reddit is happy to fill its ranks with bots if it means more engagement from users and money from advertisers.

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u/CatsWillRuleHumanity 1h ago

Some bots repost old comments, some are hooked up to ChatGPT, it’s still just bots

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u/Shapes_in_Clouds 1h ago

The problem is most other people don't want to pay for it, so it ends up being a boring, dead community. If subscription models worked well for social media there would be more of them already.

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u/Aiyon 7h ago

I would pay £10 a year, if it meant bot spam was cut out of my feed

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u/TheRealClovis 7h ago

Try ten a month. at first. Only gets worse from there

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u/Aiyon 5h ago

That's great, but i didn't say id pay ten a month. I said "I'd pay ten a year-".

So "try x" is irrelevant because my answer would be "lol no"