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Problem with that solution is that Youtube is not an independent company that one could be happy to pay for their services. You're paying Google, and there are
by j1elo 1y ago
Problem with that solution is that Youtube is not an independent company that one could be happy to pay for their services. You're paying Google, and there are more than enough reasons to not wanting to give Google any money at all.
That's the problem with corporations: they cover too much. I cannot pay Youtube while at the same time not giving an ounce of support to the company that wants to remove all remaining freedoms of the Android ecosystem.
- SpicyLemonZest 1y agoVimeo and Rumble both offer large, independent video sharing platforms with a no-ads option. (For Vimeo it's free!) There's a number of smaller platforms like Nebula offering the same thing in more targeted niches. But most viewers don't care, and most creators prefer to follow the audience.
- kiba 1y agoThey are monopolies. This is not a new problem. The remedy is that we should tax non-reproducible privilege and/or regulate them if we cannot get rid of their existence. Georgism is a good framework for analyzing monopolies and other non-reproducible privilege. While the internet wasn't around in the 19th century, it seems the closest to diagnosing the ill of "late-stage capitalism", problems that Henry George had experienced in his lifetime.