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"exploited by ads". Well, YouTube needs to make money somehow. If you don't want ads you can pay a monthly fee like Netflix.
by tinyhouse 5y ago
"exploited by ads". Well, YouTube needs to make money somehow. If you don't want ads you can pay a monthly fee like Netflix.
- LightG 5y agoTrue, but as a typical user, I wish they'd just be straight up about it. Basically, it's user experience degradation until you're forced to sign up. How about trying to just reach out and offer a service without killing my current experience? I pay for other subscriptions so this isn't a money thing, but I won't for youtube on principle. They ruined that platform.
- carlhjerpe 5y agoThey're probably still tracking me even though I pay right?
- hortense 5y agoYou can turn your history off if you want, but then you'll get suggestions of videos you've already watched.
- carlhjerpe 5y agoI've noticed and turned it back on tbh, but does it actually mean they're not tracking me? They're already tracking me all over the web
- southerntofu 5y agoIt certainly doesn't mean they're not tracking you. It just means you opt-out of the little advantages you had from the tracking. That is, if you consider personalized recommendations to be an advantage.
- 3gg 5y agoYoutube forcing a subscription on everybody would be self-sabotage. Their existence and ability to make profits rests entirely on ads. And while the ads could be more ethical, they choose instead to track people in every possible way, exploiting their identity and fingerprint on the platform -- and outside the platform -- for maximum profit. So the ads are not a choice, but the soul of the product. Peertube, instead, does not exist to make profits. So yes, exploited by ads.