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Pay?
I am winning to pay for content I like. But using their propietary app? No thanks.
Then don't use it 🤷♂️
So I use NewPipe, FreeTube, MPV, etc. Until Google block them too, then I'll refuse to use YouTube at all.
Hello, you must be new here. We don't like to be held accountable for anything and simply vocalize all our problems in an echo chamber where we collectively agree that other people should be held accountable instead. I hope this offers some context for the downvotes.
Meanwhile, at expensive private schools across the world, budding young neoliberals are being taught there is nothing more reprehensible than not milking every possible person of every possible penny.
Not even child slavery.
The whole amazing service is totally free to use, you just need an occasional advert break it's hardly nestle or Nike level greed now is it.
Occasional? Have you ever used YouTube recently?
Yeah I literally watch it all day for free, endless amazing content on every subject - I barely notice having to skip next every now and then
You could also subscribe and get no ads ever
Until they start doing tiers, just look at every streaming service for examples. They sure are.
Fuck them. Give them a hand to hold and they'll climb on your shoulder and piss in your ear.
Sure it is, it just hasn't had as long to mature.
But it's working on it. One pre-roll ad became two. Skippable ads became unskippable. Mid-roll ads were introduced. The algorithm was created to keep people watching, even if it set them on a path to domestic terrorism.
Now they're fighting ad blockers. Then they'll creep up the price of their paid tiers. Then they'll introduce ads into the paid tiers.
But don't worry, they promise it will only ever be a single, skippable, pre-roll ad, until it isn't.
You could hand over every cent you earn each week and they'll still show you ads and sell your data, because that's how greed works. If there is a penny to take, they'll take it.
The only thing we can do to defend ourselves from this practise is to make it clear that it will lose them more than it will gain.
The exact thing you're trying to shame people out of doing.