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> Paying for premium would go a long way to improving the situation for everybody The recent change to Amazon Prime, where everyone using "Prime Video" was alr
by pwg 3y ago
> Paying for premium would go a long way to improving the situation for everybody
The recent change to Amazon Prime, where everyone using "Prime Video" was already "paying for prime video", which recently added advertising, with a new $2.99/month no ads option, implies that even if everyone "paid for premium" the siren song of advertising money would be too difficult for Google/YT to ignore, and even premium would then eventually begin to be infested with advertising.
- j-bos 3y agoI agree, that siren song is toxic. At the same time I'd weigh youtube much more heavily than any common streaming service as it provides a weath of practical instruvtion which is refined via intraplatform competition and user feedback (comments).
- earthling8118 3y agoFrom what I understand the people paying to not see ads are the ones that are more attractive to advertise to because of disposable income too. So there's absolutely no good way to guarantee that they won't make a change like this one.
- paulcole 3y agoOk so pay for it until the day you’re imagining happens?