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Look, just say you’re a cheapskate if you use Adblock and don’t pay for Premium. Just say “I want to get something for nothing”. There are people that refuse to

Look, just say you’re a cheapskate if you use Adblock and don’t pay for Premium. Just say “I want to get something for nothing”. There are people that refuse to tip because they think the tipping system in the US is immoral. No, they’re just cheap. People are here writing tomes on why they don’t want to pay with attention or $$$ when they’re really just cheap. Edit: Look if you’re going to downvote, at least provide a coherent rebuttal. K8sToGo already failed in that regard with this gem: “Well since you are not cheap you can just buy premium for all of us. Thanks in advance.”

k8sToGo 3y ago
Well since you are not cheap you can just buy premium for all of us. Thanks in advance.
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Doxin 3y ago
How about "I want to get something for the price previously agreed"? I didn't start out blocking ads because there was a reasonable amount for them. There no longer is. Youtube broke their implicit agreement with me, so I really don't feel bad for doing the same in return. If youtube ever manages to actually block adblockers I'll simply stop using youtube.
- throwaway5959 3y ago
  What do you mean by implicit agreement? Why can’t companies change how many ads they run over time? It seems entitled to use a product you’re in no way paying for. Like if this were water or food, and corporations made it impossible for people to be able to afford it, I could see an argument for stealing it. But this is YouTube. No one _needs_ YouTube.
kahnclusions 3y ago
Google freely sends a bunch of video content to my computer. Why don’t I have the right to decide which parts of that content I want to watch? Which parts are permitted to execute on my computer? My computer, my home, my rules. Google has their policies, I have mine. It’s none of Google’s business whether I watched the ads or not.
- throwaway5959 3y ago
  Surely you must understand that if everyone took that view and ran Adblock on YouTube that eventually the site would be shut down and all of that content would be lost. I just don’t get it. The casual “theft” here that’s socially tolerated (like say the theft of product from retail stores that’s so common now) just seems wild to me. Why shouldn’t creators be compensated for their work?

k8sToGo 3y ago

Well since you are not cheap you can just buy premium for all of us. Thanks in advance.

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Doxin 3y ago

How about "I want to get something for the price previously agreed"? I didn't start out blocking ads because there was a reasonable amount for them. There no longer is. Youtube broke their implicit agreement with me, so I really don't feel bad for doing the same in return. If youtube ever manages to actually block adblockers I'll simply stop using youtube.

throwaway5959 3y ago
What do you mean by implicit agreement? Why can’t companies change how many ads they run over time? It seems entitled to use a product you’re in no way paying for. Like if this were water or food, and corporations made it impossible for people to be able to afford it, I could see an argument for stealing it. But this is YouTube. No one _needs_ YouTube.

kahnclusions 3y ago

Google freely sends a bunch of video content to my computer. Why don’t I have the right to decide which parts of that content I want to watch? Which parts are permitted to execute on my computer? My computer, my home, my rules. Google has their policies, I have mine. It’s none of Google’s business whether I watched the ads or not.

throwaway5959 3y ago
Surely you must understand that if everyone took that view and ran Adblock on YouTube that eventually the site would be shut down and all of that content would be lost. I just don’t get it. The casual “theft” here that’s socially tolerated (like say the theft of product from retail stores that’s so common now) just seems wild to me. Why shouldn’t creators be compensated for their work?