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I feel this is setting up a false dichotomy, either you believe creators have a right to monetize views and thus watch the ads, or you don't. It's possible for
by e2le 3y ago
I feel this is setting up a false dichotomy, either you believe creators have a right to monetize views and thus watch the ads, or you don't. It's possible for an individual to believe in the right of a creator to monetize their own work but have other reasons (overly aggressive, quality, scams, fraud, and malware) for choosing not to consume the advertisements.
I suspect that if it weren't for the steep decline in the quality of advertisements or their overly aggressive nature, many users of content blockers would have never being pushed to seek out a solution that grants them reprieve from the punishing barrage.
- izacus 3y agoNo, you're setting up a false dichotomy. YouTube asks you to pay for Premium subscription if you don't want to watch ads. You're bloviating about some kind of moral highground where all you really want is to avoid paying those 15$ the service asks you to pay to use it.
- Timshel 3y agoIt'not like Youtube premium stop the tracking ... And it would mean linking to identifying informations. As opposed to using YT without any account or multiple ones, linked to a minimum of information, if you want to curate your recommandations.
- izacus 3y agoI bet a lot that you'd refuse to pay for some other trumped up highground reason if Premium would prove that they stop tracking. You all just want to get shit for free.
- Timshel 3y agoDon't know on the trumped up, but absolutely I will never trust any promise made by Youtube as long as it's a Google Entity. As for just wanting things for free, well I'm paying a Nebula subscription so ...
- acdha 3y agoYouTube has an easy way to ensure you never see an ad: pay for premium. Remember, this is private media, not something you have a right to use. Not liking the terms offered by the owner doesn’t conjure up a right any more than my not liking the dress code at a restaurant means I have standing to sue when they kick me out.
- skydhash 3y agoIs it private? I think a lot of people put videos up because they want it to be public. The expectation was for the creators not to pay hosting/storage/processing fees because Youtube will add ads when the video is playing. I choose not to see ads then it’s Youtube loss. They can’t decide what I do with data on my computer. It’s their rights not to send me data, but not to say what I choose to do with it. Imagine buying a bluray and they told you to watch it twice a week at least or the data will get scrambled.
- acdha 3y agoIt’s private property unless the copyright owner places it in the public domain. Even then, you have no right to use Google’s resources unpaid so you’d have a right to host your own copy but not to use theirs.