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Fuck that. My household uses Newpipe we don't pay for shit.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
Fuck that.
My household uses Newpipe we don't pay for shit.
- otterley 1y agoOut of curiosity, what pays your own salary?
- Aachen 1y agoI'm sure that's pure curiosity and not trying to make a point in a roundabout way...
- debugnik 1y agoNot the same poster, but: Products and services that someone actually signed a contract to pay for. Google is free to not send me free video if they don't want to, I'm just connecting to their website using my browser. But the only reason so many creators are exclusively on youtube is the fact that anyone can watch there. Google tolerates my ad blocker to some degree (unlike other sites) because the alternative is losing market share and they know it. If creators feel cheated, they can ask youtube to stop serving their videos for free for its own interests. I'd like to see the status quo change actually.
- globular-toast 1y agoExactly. YouTube wants to have its cake and eat it too. YouTube would not be what it is today if it wasn't public and free at the point of use. Anyone is free to do something in private and ticket people for it. I'm doing a concert tonight in my home, it's 100 credits for a ticket, hope you'll come! I can't guarantee anyone will come, but I can guarantee anyone who comes will pay. There are platforms like Floatplane that use this model. Then there's the busking model. You do it in public. You can't guarantee anyone pays, but they'll definitely come, and some will probably pay. YouTube wants both. It wants to be the place where people busk (like the public square) but also force advertising on you. You can't have it both ways. Either go private or accept that this is public and I will do what I want with my browser.
- debugnik 1y agoI love the concert/busking framing, I'm definitely using that from now on.
- yugioh3 1y agoStealing from creators shouldn't be celebrated.
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoThe alternative is not watching them, not paying. Revenue is unchanged.
- myself248 1y agoI support a _shitpile_ of creators on Patreon and Kofi and more. I subscribe to Nebula, and I get as much as I can from the creators' own pages on those services. I'm doing my best to move my viewing off of YouTube, and move the money off of YouTube, in hopes that it eases the creators moving off of YouTube.
- eviks 1y agoBut you'll invariably watch from a way way bigger shitpile of creators, so without some more efficient mechanism you won't be able to spread your support properly
- inversetelecine 1y agoAh, the old "stealing" line.