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Alternate caption: "You guys wanna stop stealing our server bandwidth?"
The moment Google stops stealing my data I might consider using YouTube premium
Legislation is stopping them, hence increasing upfront cost to offset
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
Okay, so how's that Premium consideration going?
Hard to say they're stealing when you give consent by agreeing to their ToS
when you start making youtube better instead of worse
Lol you're the one contributing to making it worse. Google already loses money on operating YouTube and freeloaders only exacerbate that loss. They're going to make ads longer, unskippable, and take away your perception of a choice. They're going to kill every other option you have. Pay or stop watching.
it was worse before i started blocking ads
look what you made me do
pay or stop watching
no
Pay or stop watching isn't the choice I'm putting in front of you.
It's the one YouTube is winding up to put in front of you. Good luck.
you made it look like that
youtube is winding up to put in front of you
will they send police if i keep blocking ads
Normally I'd agree with you, but this is Google, the 4th largest companies in the world, not some scrappy startup which might go away next quarter if they can't hit their revenue target. If Google actually shutdown YouTube, I'd cheer because that's when the real competition begun in the video space.
Right, so only scrappy startups deserve to run a profitable business and Google should be forced to choke down the abhorrent cost of YouTube out of.. what exactly? If they were making money hand over fist on it, sure, fuck em. But they're not. YouTube isn't profitable and the reason there aren't competitors is for that exact reason. They are literally free video data storage with no limit. No site can compete with that. Everything else would make you pay for a membership or have a small hard limit or even have some kind of gate yet you take it as the standard.
If YouTube fails there will be no alternative to take their place. Amazon might try, but their greed might stop them. They're already a household name, what would the point be?
The thing is, I'm ok if Google do this right from the start. Instead, they use their massive capitals to run YouTube for free and squashed all their competitors. Vimeo was the most promising competitor in this space, but they can't compete with Google's infinite subsidy to YouTube and had to pivot. Now that there is no competitor around anymore, Google jacked up prices, reduced monetization rates for their content creators, locked up formerly free features behind subscription plans, and now declaring a war with adblockers.
If YouTube fails there will be no alternative to take their place.
So yeah, I'm not supporting Google in this space because this whole situation where there is no competitors to YouTube anymore is Google's own doing.
lol stealing
Browsers that block data, Adblockers that block ad revenue, no interest in a subscription.
You give nothing, take everything, then act entitled to do so. Yeah, stealing is an apt word for it. At least own what you are.
apt word
am very smart
If you think "apt word" is a 'very smart' phrase I am so sorry your teachers failed you.
“apt word” is an ‘i want to look smart in an average comment section’ phrase
It's in my normal vocabulary. Again, my condolences for your teachers.
your teachers failed you if you defend youtube for free
I walk through a park
"You are stealing since you contribute nothing back!"
lol hell yeah, this is a fucking stick-up
A park is funded by the city. The city is funded by non-negotiable taxes.
You're new to this, aren't you?
Private park, where you can come in if you watch the bilboards. And I'm not looking at your bilboards. I'm sorry but I just won't look at them like lol
Geez use a little imagination, public city parks aren't the only parks
Your analogy falls apart like wet toilet paper. Private highways require tolls, a small contribution to the maintenance of the road. Renting a car, house, etc. The concept of letting people use something expensive for a small nominal fee is the very foundation of our society and on the internet, that fee can be pushed to advertisers if you don't want to cough it up. Block the advertisers, you're stealing the service, which comes with a fine or jail time. Since we can't do that, want to know the alternative?
Blocking adblockers. Hulu and Twitch already do it. How long before they remake their player to do the same? You don't get it. The mega corporation always gets paid and they will damn sure sink the platform if they can't.
You can't compare toll roads, this would be like a road paid for by billboards and you agree to look at the billboards if you want to use it. And no, I'm not looking at the billboards.
If you they didn't want me to "steal" (lol) their bandwidth, they should have gates or whatever in it. Until then, I'm cruising through
Toll roads are a perfect example actually. You need it, alternatives are inconvenient, you have the ability to pay and drive through or you can choose not to. They just don't have the advertiser workaround. It's pay or fuck off.
Your entitled attitude is what's going to get us to a point where premium will be required to watch videos. Adblockers only work because they let them. You'll have a rude awakening soon.
Toll roads are a perfect example actually.
It's pay or fuck off
You just described why it's not the perfect example lol. Youtube doesn't require payment to enter. Disney+ would be more like toll roads. Youtube is like road paid for by advertising along the road on billboards or whatever.
Your entitled attitude is what's going to get us to a point where premium will be required to watch videos. Adblockers only work because they let them. You'll have a rude awakening soon.
Lmao I'm really sorry but I'm just not going to look at your billboards