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I don't paid anything to YouTube and I don't see any ads. Because I block ads.

by Zardoz84 7mo ago

smt88 7mo ago
Do you feel good about YouTube spending money on hosting and video producers spending time/money on content that you're paying nothing for? How is that sustainable?
- joquarky 7mo ago
  The categorical imperative has been put on life support since 2016 at the latest. Everything is smash and dash now. And nobody with the means to change it cares about externalities anymore.
  - smt88 7mo ago
    I don't understand any of those sentences. How do they apply to YouTube?
- danaris 7mo ago
  Frankly? That's Google's (well, Alphabet's, I guess) problem. They're a multibillion-dollar international monopoly with absolutely staggering amounts of money and power, actively engaging in a wide variety of activities directly aimed at making the lives of every normal person on the planet worse so that they can have more power, more control, and more money. Me blocking ads on YouTube not only costs them effectively nothing, it's also the act of a flea against a polar bear. If Alphabet showed any signs of actually wanting to create a sustainable alternative to the surveillance economy, I might have some sympathy for them. But not only do they not do this, they are the ones who created it in the first place.
  - smt88 7mo ago
    Doesn't your boycott of the ad-free model confirm to them that the only viable business model is ads?
    - danaris 7mo ago
      I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm boycotting "the ad-free model". I'm boycotting them. After all, every cent that goes their way supports surveillance advertising (among other unsavory things). I have other subscriptions that support ad-free creators. If they choose to misconstrue my refusal to support them with either money or ad views, that's also their problem. (Also, that's patently never going to happen, because my signal vanishes instantly into the noise.)

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I don't paid anything to YouTube and I don't see any ads. Because I block ads.

by Zardoz84 7mo ago

I don't paid anything to YouTube and I don't see any ads. Because I block ads.

smt88 7mo ago
Do you feel good about YouTube spending money on hosting and video producers spending time/money on content that you're paying nothing for? How is that sustainable?
- joquarky 7mo ago
  The categorical imperative has been put on life support since 2016 at the latest. Everything is smash and dash now. And nobody with the means to change it cares about externalities anymore.
  - smt88 7mo ago
    I don't understand any of those sentences. How do they apply to YouTube?
- danaris 7mo ago
  Frankly? That's Google's (well, Alphabet's, I guess) problem. They're a multibillion-dollar international monopoly with absolutely staggering amounts of money and power, actively engaging in a wide variety of activities directly aimed at making the lives of every normal person on the planet worse so that they can have more power, more control, and more money. Me blocking ads on YouTube not only costs them effectively nothing, it's also the act of a flea against a polar bear. If Alphabet showed any signs of actually wanting to create a sustainable alternative to the surveillance economy, I might have some sympathy for them. But not only do they not do this, they are the ones who created it in the first place.
  - smt88 7mo ago
    Doesn't your boycott of the ad-free model confirm to them that the only viable business model is ads?
    - danaris 7mo ago
      I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm boycotting "the ad-free model". I'm boycotting them. After all, every cent that goes their way supports surveillance advertising (among other unsavory things). I have other subscriptions that support ad-free creators. If they choose to misconstrue my refusal to support them with either money or ad views, that's also their problem. (Also, that's patently never going to happen, because my signal vanishes instantly into the noise.)