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I would genuinely like to understand this perspective. Ads or paying for premium is how the underlying business makes money. The UX might suck but you have a ch
by jdhwosnhw 10mo ago
I would genuinely like to understand this perspective. Ads or paying for premium is how the underlying business makes money. The UX might suck but you have a choice - you can just not watch YouTube. The approach you describe (which i understand is a popular one) is equivalent to justifying robbing a store because their prices are too high.
- allarm 10mo agoIt’s not a robbery if noone is getting robbed. That’s a very bad analogy really.
- jdhwosnhw 10mo agoYou are using a service without paying for the service by actively circumventing the payment mechanism. Is that not stealing?
- asldfkasgkj 10mo agoIs it okay if I go the bathroom or get another beer while the commercials play? If so, why?
- jdhwosnhw 10mo agoThats like saying the grocery store is ok with me eating some of the grapes while I shop so they must be ok with me walking out without paying for my groceries. I’m not trying to be obtuse here. I really want to understand some sort of reasonable moral justification for actively avoiding paying for a service that you are using / circumventing the mechanism by which the business makes money.
- AlexeyBelov 10mo ago> circumventing the mechanism by which the business makes money This is generally of no interest to consumers.
- aembleton 10mo agoThe approach is the equivalent of avoiding the end of aisles so that you don't even look at the products that companies are paying to the store to promote.
- jdhwosnhw 10mo agoExcept in this case the only way the store makes money is either by you paying an entrance fee or by you looking at the products. You are being delivered a service (whose delivery costs money) while actively circumventing the mechanism the store employs to be compensated for that service.
- jiehong 10mo agoYouTube is the content, not the box. You might like the content, but you don’t pay for a shit box anyways.