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If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from advertising. I pay for YouTube Premium to avoid ads because I hate ads. But I

If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from advertising. I pay for YouTube Premium to avoid ads because I hate ads. But I also like robust economic activity. So, I’m happy to pay a fee instead of seeing ads.

dwaite 5y ago
> I pay for YouTube Premium to avoid ads because I hate ads. But I also like robust economic activity. So, I’m happy to pay a fee instead of seeing ads. Yep, and I drastically limited watching YouTube on-site because their advertising became untenably invasive. The last straw was when they tried to get me to pay money to back-track how much they made their product suck, rather than actually providing me value over the out-of-box experience a few years prior.
- jen20 5y ago
  Likewise - I am not entirely opposed to paying for Google products. I pay for G-Suite, for example (for now). However there is not a hope in hell I will ever pay for YouTube - they go out of their way to disable native OS features like Picture in Picture video, and the experience of ads is so shitty I’ve just added it to Pi-hole and moved on. There’s some good content on there, but it’s not good enough to subject myself to that, or to reward such behavior with money.
HWR_14 5y ago
> If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from advertising. That reasoning can be used to justify any shitty practice. Concerned about global warming? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from emitting carbon. Concerned about human rights in China? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from trade with China. Concerned about American workers getting fired for unionizing? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from interacting with sales behemoths like Walmart and Amazon. Therefore, I suggest you come up with a better rational for bad things. Or frankly stop trying to justify them. That also works.

dwaite 5y ago

> I pay for YouTube Premium to avoid ads because I hate ads. But I also like robust economic activity. So, I’m happy to pay a fee instead of seeing ads. Yep, and I drastically limited watching YouTube on-site because their advertising became untenably invasive. The last straw was when they tried to get me to pay money to back-track how much they made their product suck, rather than actually providing me value over the out-of-box experience a few years prior.

jen20 5y ago
Likewise - I am not entirely opposed to paying for Google products. I pay for G-Suite, for example (for now). However there is not a hope in hell I will ever pay for YouTube - they go out of their way to disable native OS features like Picture in Picture video, and the experience of ads is so shitty I’ve just added it to Pi-hole and moved on. There’s some good content on there, but it’s not good enough to subject myself to that, or to reward such behavior with money.

HWR_14 5y ago

> If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from advertising. That reasoning can be used to justify any shitty practice. Concerned about global warming? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from emitting carbon. Concerned about human rights in China? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from trade with China. Concerned about American workers getting fired for unionizing? If you have an income it’s because of economic activity, most likely derived from interacting with sales behemoths like Walmart and Amazon. Therefore, I suggest you come up with a better rational for bad things. Or frankly stop trying to justify them. That also works.