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I will NOT reward a company for continuing to track me after I pay them. You are missing the issue here. I will pay a company if they do not engage in these sh
by nerdjon 5y ago
I will NOT reward a company for continuing to track me after I pay them.
You are missing the issue here. I will pay a company if they do not engage in these shady behaviors. But they nearly all do, so I refuse to give them money to remove one thing (the ads) but continue to track.
- endisneigh 5y agoI’m not sure what the issue is - Google never says if you pay you won’t be tracked, they say you won’t see ads. The question is, will you indulge in YouTube anyway and deprive them from ad revenue n or will you just not use YouTube?
- nerdjon 5y agoWhy would I pay to remove ads when the key reason I don't want ads is because I don't want to be tracked? When they will just use other methods to track me. I will use YouTube as little as possible, but that is nearly impossible because google used their power to make YouTube the only available option to view some content. Google did this to themselves.
- endisneigh 5y agoYou don’t have to view the content though. I hope wherever you work your customers pay for your services.
- nerdjon 5y agoI hope wherever you work you don't push privacy invasive technology onto customers who don't know it is there. Please provide an alternative to YouTube for viewing trailers, news, game reviews, etc. It is basically non existent. Nearly every site uses YouTube for hosting their videos now. You are continuing to ignore the key issue here. I personally don't have an issue with ads in theory. But ads have simply become one of many avenues that companies like Google use to track users. I will not support that. I also have zero concerns for google financially.
- endisneigh 5y agoYou ever think that they’re using YouTube for a reason? What I’m saying doesn’t apply to them specifically anyway. And as for alternatives you can use Vimeo and PeerTube. If you don’t see the content you want there think about why that is.
- nerdjon 5y agoI know why that is, Google abusing their dominate position in search to sway the entire market to a single service.
- endisneigh 5y agoI disagree. Get your government to break them up. Also, my logic applies to any company really. So I’m having a hard time reconciling your position with a smaller company that tracks and uses ads. Basically you feel it’s ok to not compensate content creators because they’re using big techs platform. Weird
- hedora 5y agoWhy would I choose to compensate anyone (even a content creator) after they non-consensually violated my privacy? If they want me to compensate them, then they should bother to put a second copy of their content up on a platform that supports payments, and is not morally reprehensible.
- endisneigh 5y agolol why don't you just not consume their content, aka steal - instead of rationalizing your theft? then your privacy will not be violated, of course you won't get the content, either.