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The sad truth is on average advertisers will pay more for your attention than you’ll pay not to have ads. So people continually complain about YouTube ads but i
by twobitshifter 4y ago
The sad truth is on average advertisers will pay more for your attention than you’ll pay not to have ads. So people continually complain about YouTube ads but ignore their option to pay to have them removed.
- t0bia_s 4y agoWhy wasting money on "feature" that can be done with same result for free? uBlock, NextDNS, pihole, etc. No-one is asking for ads by default, ever.
- syntaxfree 4y agoWith YouTube premium you can listen to videos on the iPhone with the app in second plane or even with the phone locked. Yeah, I should use a hacked rooted Android yadda yadda. But I just spent a week hacking and hawking for my life in an ICU, and I certainly didn’t want sanity-saving podcasts to shut down whilst on an hour-long stay at the breathing machine. Life is short.
- widdershins 4y agoI pay for YouTube too. Between that and Kagi search, it's ~$20 per month. Which seems crazy in today's environment of 'everything free'. But seriously, I use these both all day for both work and play, but I only watch an hour of Netflix a day. So which is really more valuable? I agree that on the whole, people will continue to go for the free option, but I'm just glad that some options are appearing to pay, which rebalances the incentives a bit.