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There is something very wrong with the idea that you can afford an Apple computer but refuse to pay for content, instead employing techniques to avoid remunerat
by richrichardsson 6y ago
There is something very wrong with the idea that you can afford an Apple computer but refuse to pay for content, instead employing techniques to avoid remuneration going to the service and content provider.
- Nextgrid 6y agoThere are plenty more reasons to not pay for YT Premium beyond the monetary aspect. Not trusting Google is a big one (and in fact why I personally don't pay for it despite happily paying for Spotify and donating to the YT creators I watch directly).
- freediver 6y agoNote that those techniques are in the spirit of the initial vision of the internet being open and free, and you, the user, controlling what you see on the web through your 'user agent' and not the other way around. Also remember those ads are not free, they come at great cost of bandwidth and compute, resulting in net co2 emission. If I as a user want to object to that, using an ad blocker is morally completely valid.
- titzer 6y agoThere is something very wrong with the web which has become a cesspool of trackers and surveillance capitalism and every waking moment is pregnant with monetization options from the powerful players in the attention economy. I mostly prefer to watch DVDs and employ an ad blocker so that every day existence doesn't require my brain to edit ads out of reality because it's been trained by 25 years of abuse from the internet that this is necessary to just be able pretend like I exist independent of my eyeballs' worth to some goddamn shysters halfway across the world. You know, like most of 400,000 years of human existence. Come to think of it, maybe I'll sign off now.