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If they take my money, I expect 0 advertising and tracking me across the web, which they refuse to do, even if asked nicely. They're still tuning algorithms, tr
by exabrial 3y ago
If they take my money, I expect 0 advertising and tracking me across the web, which they refuse to do, even if asked nicely. They're still tuning algorithms, training models and llms with my personal data and I don't want to be a part of that.
So yeah, adblock for me all day long.
- mvdtnz 3y agoI suspect you would always find a rationale to not pay. It is my experience that people who say "if they'd only change this one thing I'd pay for it" will never pay for it.
- bananapub 3y agoOK, so you don't actually want to pay for content, got it.
- exabrial 3y agoHappy to pay for content, but I refuse to pay up in order to _not_ have my personal information used for their profits.
- paxys 3y ago"I want an option to pay and remove ads". YouTube adds that option. "Well content creators can still insert their own ads". YouTube adds a label on videos with sponsored segments, and lets you skip ahead. "Nope, it's too expensive, and they still track you." YouTube adds option to turn off all tracking and recommendations. "Nope, I don't trust Google, I'm never going to pay". People are going to find excuses forever rather than just pay $10 or whatever for a service they use for multiple hours every day. The same people who wouldn't think twice about spending that much on two cups of coffee which will last them 5 minutes. This is exactly why we will never have ethical monetization on the internet, and will be stuck with ads and tracking forever.
- exabrial 3y ago> YouTube adds option to turn off all tracking and recommendations cough absolute pure fantasy unadulterated premium bullshit. I subscribed for YT Premium at one point. I watched one video on a subject and magically started seeing adds for it across the internet. Go re-read the terms of service carefully.
- enragedcacti 3y ago> I subscribed for YT Premium at one point. I watched one video on a subject and magically started seeing adds for it across the internet. Disabling watch history and recommendations isn't a premium feature, its just a privacy setting anyone can enable. If you had the same experience after disabling watch history then that would be very interesting.
- exabrial 3y agoWhat if I told you it's perfectly possible to store something like "watch history" without selling the information to advertisers?
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- paxys 3y agoI assume you also think that Alexa and Google Home are listening to your everyday household conversations and serve you ads based on it? Why do you even use the internet if you are so paranoid of it?
- beej71 3y agoI paid for Premium for years. But with Google backing initiatives like WEI, I feel I can no longer support them. I took the money we were spending on Premium and poured it and more into Patreon. That's my excuse.
- lamontcg 3y agoI pay Kagi for search and Tidal for music. I just won't pay Google.