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> There's no technical reason for them to be walled gardens, only business reasons, which are at odds with my privacy and general happiness. Then pay them! Hos
by watwatwatwat 10y ago
> There's no technical reason for them to be walled gardens, only business reasons, which are at odds with my privacy and general happiness.
Then pay them! Hosting fees are not gratis.
- SwellJoe 10y agoWhere should I sign up for the "privacy-respecting, no-advertising" facebook plan? Twitter have one of those, too?
- watwatwatwat 10y agoNope, but google is trying. See google contributor and youtube red. Start there.
- offa 10y agoNot OP, but unfortunately Google Contributor is not yet available in my country. Google really seems to be focused on the US and only on the US.
- SwellJoe 10y agoGoogle Contributor looks neat, and probably something I'll try out...but, I don't see any indication that privacy will be respected with their plan. Seems like I still need an ad blocker and a privacy-respecting web browser. It's unfortunate that something like Contributor can't be done in a peer-to-peer fashion. It requires a huge player with a visible impact on their entire web to be able to "sell" a different sort of web experience. That's actually kinda scary; it reminds me how much power Google has. While I have vaguely positive feelings about Google (and use gmail, Android, etc.), it's not great that one entity owns such a big chunk of the web. I already have a couple of subscriptions to services that provide music. I don't know if I'll switch to Red; might try it out at some point. I should read up on it; I do watch a lot of tech videos and such on YouTube, and if Red actually supports the people who make them, that'd be great.
- pitaj 10y agoYoutube Red and Google Play Music come in a package, which is actually an awesome value. Red does support the creators whose videos you watch.