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I would happily pay a monthly fee to never see another advert.

by iMark 11y ago

mrweasel 11y ago
If the fee is reasonable, say €10, I wouldn't mind paying. My "issue" is that I also don't want to log in.
- ninkendo 11y ago
  Yeah, that's my issue too. Google's suggestions service is incredibly invasive, and does an utterly terrible job. I like to fall asleep listening to a variety of different relaxation videos, so that means any time I open up the youtube app on my phone, it bombards with me with nothing but weird looking ASMR videos that - to somebody who's never seen the concept - probably look like porn. I couldn't imagine hooking up my account to my TV and having people who come over look and think "what the fuck is this guy watching?" Privacy goes beyond me being concerned that google knows my viewing habits... I don't care much about that. I care a lot about being pigeonholed into a certain type of viewer based on what I've viewed before. I don't want to be in an echo chamber, and I don't want google's view of "relevance" to surround me with only the types of videos I've watched in the past. It eventually becomes like breathing your own exhaust fumes. Google could do better at this, but they seem to be misguided in thinking that people want this. The only solution right now is to not log in with an account, but even then they try and use cookies to get a fix on your viewing habits. It's really kind of sad that they don't see that this turns a lot of people away.
  - thezilch 11y ago
    Have you tried to clear and disable your watch history under your Privacy settings (on a device) or History settings (in the left money on desktop)? I think you hugely overestimate how measurable this concern is.
  - nso95 11y ago
    Netflix profiles are pretty helpful
mistermann 11y ago
I'd pay a reasonable (household if that's possible) fee out of principle, my family watches LOTS of youtube, we don't even watch cable, young kids watch a huge amount of content creator videos on youtube.
Pyrodogg 11y ago
As a gainfully employed adult, i'd also pay for a reasonable service that would give me content that I want with less annoyances. If I were still a teen or even a low-income college student, I'd still be exploiting all the things to get content for free.
dublinben 11y ago
You still see advertisements on YouTube?
teddyh 11y ago
“It’s a gigantic social phenomenon. People find ways of getting money by impeding society. Once they can impede society, they can be paid to leave people alone.” — Richard Stallman, 1986 (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview http://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview)
- Buge 11y ago
  It's a form of price discrimination: charging rich people more than poor people.
  - teddyh 11y ago
    The poor still pay, in the form of their attention, thus guaranteeing that they are distracted and consequently still poor.

I would happily pay a monthly fee to never see another advert.

by iMark 11y ago

I would happily pay a monthly fee to never see another advert.

mrweasel 11y ago

If the fee is reasonable, say €10, I wouldn't mind paying. My "issue" is that I also don't want to log in.

ninkendo 11y ago
Yeah, that's my issue too. Google's suggestions service is incredibly invasive, and does an utterly terrible job. I like to fall asleep listening to a variety of different relaxation videos, so that means any time I open up the youtube app on my phone, it bombards with me with nothing but weird looking ASMR videos that - to somebody who's never seen the concept - probably look like porn. I couldn't imagine hooking up my account to my TV and having people who come over look and think "what the fuck is this guy watching?" Privacy goes beyond me being concerned that google knows my viewing habits... I don't care much about that. I care a lot about being pigeonholed into a certain type of viewer based on what I've viewed before. I don't want to be in an echo chamber, and I don't want google's view of "relevance" to surround me with only the types of videos I've watched in the past. It eventually becomes like breathing your own exhaust fumes. Google could do better at this, but they seem to be misguided in thinking that people want this. The only solution right now is to not log in with an account, but even then they try and use cookies to get a fix on your viewing habits. It's really kind of sad that they don't see that this turns a lot of people away.
- thezilch 11y ago
  Have you tried to clear and disable your watch history under your Privacy settings (on a device) or History settings (in the left money on desktop)? I think you hugely overestimate how measurable this concern is.
- nso95 11y ago
  Netflix profiles are pretty helpful

mistermann 11y ago

I'd pay a reasonable (household if that's possible) fee out of principle, my family watches LOTS of youtube, we don't even watch cable, young kids watch a huge amount of content creator videos on youtube.

Pyrodogg 11y ago

As a gainfully employed adult, i'd also pay for a reasonable service that would give me content that I want with less annoyances. If I were still a teen or even a low-income college student, I'd still be exploiting all the things to get content for free.

dublinben 11y ago

You still see advertisements on YouTube?

teddyh 11y ago

“It’s a gigantic social phenomenon. People find ways of getting money by impeding society. Once they can impede society, they can be paid to leave people alone.” — Richard Stallman, 1986 (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview http://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview)

Buge 11y ago
It's a form of price discrimination: charging rich people more than poor people.
- teddyh 11y ago
  The poor still pay, in the form of their attention, thus guaranteeing that they are distracted and consequently still poor.