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Thats sounds a lot like extorsion.
by arnoooooo 6y ago
Thats sounds a lot like extorsion.
- dmd 6y agoRestaurants extort me to pay for food if I want to eat there. It's shameful.
- Supermancho 6y agoPaying for something not to happen is different than paying for something in return. Obviously.
- xbmcuser 6y agoAh no you pay the content creators by watching the ads with your time or the subscription.
- Supermancho 6y ago> Restaurants extort me to pay for food if I want to eat there. > Paying for something not to happen is different than paying for something in return. The rough metaphor about restaurants, is not an equivalent situation. --- > you pay the content creators by watching the ads with your time or the subscription To clarify, you believe that there is an ephemeral currency of attention. Your attention (which was to be directed at the content creator) can be redirected forcefully, unless you pay in money. I'd be remiss to call it outright extortion, but the parallel is there.
- ixwt 6y agoA big difference I see is how much money does Google make me "watching"/skipping ads in a month? I find it hard to believe it's around $10/month. What are rates now a days?
- _emacsomancer_ 6y agoLet them eat ads.
- arnoooooo 6y agoI would not say that if youtube straight up asked for payment for their product and there were no ads. Instead, Youtube is pestering you with ads and asking for payment to stop doing so.
- edge17 6y agoYou know what they say. If you're not paying for the product, then you probably are the product.
- nobleach 6y agoIn the cases of both youtube and reddit, how would one suggest they pay for the developers, and their massive hosting costs? If not ad revenue, then what? Subscriptions? That's a hard veto from a high percentage of users.