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This isn't about paying for youtube, this is about ads. People don't want youtube ads, and frankly it's their good right to not have to download, display and w
by contravariant 3y ago
This isn't about paying for youtube, this is about ads.
People don't want youtube ads, and frankly it's their good right to not have to download, display and watch them if they so choose. What youtube now wants is proof that people have watched ads. This is problematic for 2 reasons. The first is that there is no way to prove you've watched an ad in a way that's not a privacy nightmare and extremely hostile to users. The second is that most people are simply unwilling to watch youtube ads.
I'm not disgusted with the idea of a paid youtube, I'd simply go somewhere else, I'm disgusted by having ads shoved down my throat and that of others.
- mvdtnz 3y agoThere's a sure-fire way to avoid 100% of YouTube ads without paying a cent, though.
- huytersd 3y agoWhat’s that?
- cykros 3y agoUsing bypass-paywalls works so far if you add it to the custom list, and as a bonus, you end up getting in less of an echo chamber because it displays as if you've never logged in. There's also a set up for ublock origin that works that's out on their reddit somewhere, though I can't be asked to go through it, nor use reddit anymore, so you may need to search that up on your own, but it's recent and works.
- mvdtnz 3y agoDon't watch Youtube videos.
- huytersd 3y agoHonestly that’s not an option. There is way too much, ever growing good content on it.
- Workaccount2 3y agoThen pay for it lol. "Restaurants are making me pay before eating because I usually just dine and ditch. How am I supposed to eat out if I have to pay? They are greedy as fuck, so no way will I give them a cent. But honestly not eating out is also not an option." Do you hear yourself?
- bloppe 3y agoPaid youtube is the default. Ads are just an alternative option for people who don't want to pay. Why do you feel so disgusted that they're providing you with an alternative option?
- hightrix 3y agoI’m not the OP but my response is that I will not pay for content twice and it is impossible to get a truly adfree experience on YouTube by paying for premium.
- contravariant 3y agoThe thing is that this argument only works if you just assume that everything people put on youtube is put there with the expectation that people will pay to see it, rather than just to put it out there in whatever way is most convenient. If they want to be paid they should just go paid and see if anyone still wants to share videos on a closed platform, if they don't want to do that why should I need to approve of every single alternative they manage to come up with?
- bloppe 3y agoIt costs Google billions of dollars every year in servers, storage, bandwidth, and electricity just to keep the lights on at YouTube. Just because a video is posted without the uploader expecting people to pay for it, does not mean it can be hosted without any cost to the infrastructure operator.
- ajmurmann 3y agoWould you prefer YouTube removed the free/ad-powered access and put everything behind a paywall?
- hn8305823 3y ago> I'm not disgusted with the idea of a paid youtube, I'd simply go somewhere else, I'm disgusted by having ads shoved down my throat and that of others. The only issue I have with paid Youtube is privacy. We are talking about Google after all.... I know there are other techniques like fingerprinting but I prefer to use youtube as anonymously as possible and payment+login violates that completely.