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I'm paying for many "freely available" services, like RSS readers, email service, and more. I pay to not be the product. The reason I do not pay for YouTube is
by beagle3 6y ago
I'm paying for many "freely available" services, like RSS readers, email service, and more. I pay to not be the product.
The reason I do not pay for YouTube is that despite paying, I'm still the product - Google is still collecting every bit of data about me, to spam me on their other channels. Instead, I use YouTube (and every other Google product) logged-out, deleting cookies often[0]. I can't do that if I pay for YouTube.
[0] I used to reject cookies, but Google has become unusable that way -- everything goes back to defaults which are exceptionally bad for me.