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I pay for ad-free YouTube and YouTube music premium. It’s possible to make any fees for service a fee for something other than service. “You’re not paying for
by LegitShady 5y ago
I pay for ad-free YouTube and YouTube music premium. It’s possible to make any fees for service a fee for something other than service. “You’re not paying for YouTube you’re paying to not see ads on YouTube”.
You’re not paying for gmail, you’re paying for removing ads in gmail, so you can still be analyzed and tracked, etc.
It’s just semantics and creative structuring.
- pdpi 5y agoGSuite and Youtube play by very different rules, though. Youtube is a consumer product and privacy legislation unfortunately doesn't have much in the way of teeth. GSuite is a business product, and there's many industries they'd like to serve that are fairly strict about data breaches.
- LegitShady 5y agoThe ads on YouTube pay for YouTube. If I’m paying for YouTube and not seeing ads, I’m paying for YouTube. Playing semantic word games saying ‘you’re paying to not see ads, the ads that pay for the service’ is just word games. If they have to be legislated into not spying on the users then it just proves the article’s point.
- HelloNurse 5y ago> It’s just semantics and creative structuring. I'd guess Gmail etc. involve lawyers in marketing, so the focus shifts from "what is valuable enough to have a market" to "what is legal enough to get away with it".