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Time is money. Ten minutes of daily YouTube ads adds up to 5 hours a month. Premium costs $14, roughly an hour's work at minimum wage. Trade one hour of labor f
by bastardoperator 9mo ago
Time is money. Ten minutes of daily YouTube ads adds up to 5 hours a month. Premium costs $14, roughly an hour's work at minimum wage. Trade one hour of labor for four hours of free time. That's 48 hours back each year for $168. It's a no brainer. Even if your wage is half of 14 dollars, you would still gain 24 hours back and it would still be worth it.
- blibble 9mo agoor install ublock origin and keep your money and the time! while depriving google of revenue AND costing them money win, win, win and WIN
- Aerroon 9mo agoAlso decreasing the likelihood of content that you like watching gets made? The creator is being paid from that ad revenue too.
- olyjohn 9mo agoOr maybe they will move to a platform that respects them. Gotta start somewhere.
- Aerroon 9mo agoThey're on YouTube because it's the platform that gives them the greatest chance of success. What other popular video platforms do you know that give you 55% of the ad revenue?
- blibble 9mo agoif my viewing actively cost the video creators money from me watching I'd probably feel guilty and stop but this isn't the case, I'm completely cost neutral to them but it does directly cost Google money... and I'm perfectly fine with that
- Aerroon 9mo agoI'm not making a moral judgement here. I'm talking about sending a signal that this type of content is valuable to make, leading to more content of that type being made.
- gwbas1c 9mo agoI watch YouTube on many devices through the app. At the time, I was using YouTube music.