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I'm ready to pay, I pay for a lot of stuff: netflix, audible, dynalist, pycharm, etc. But with youtube you pay twice, once with your money, and the second time
by BiteCode_dev 5y ago
I'm ready to pay, I pay for a lot of stuff: netflix, audible, dynalist, pycharm, etc.
But with youtube you pay twice, once with your money, and the second time with your private life. And Google's track record clearly shows it's not a good idea to trust them with it.
Google is the only one responsible for my total defiance toward them. They catered to it year after year. Now they are just harvesting the result. They can't have their cake and eat it.
- GloriousKoji 5y agoI would argue you also pay with your time, what percentage of total view time is wasted on long intros, sponsored plugs and telling people to do all the typical social media stuff which has nothing to do with real content.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoThankfully, there is a wonderful extension for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ Try it, and you will for a brief moment feel like when you installed a regular adblocker the first time 15 years ago: "WOW". With this + ublock origin + youtube enhancer, the site is a completely different experience. It's the experience I would happily pay for, if it wouldn't mean giving away my whole life to Google's monster AI.