Comment on Youtube ads finally got me

subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah no way Im paying for youtube. Totally bizarre concept to me.

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  • algorithmae@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How so? Servers aren’t free. Either you pay in cash or you pay in ads.

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    • ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I run a lemmy server and nobody pays anything to use it. It a public service by me for anyone.

      Just because some company hasnt figured out how to do it doesnt mean something cannot exist for the good of the public run by members of the public.

      Im not interested in conforming to imposed problems personally. Im interested in building resilient systems. That was why we invented technology as humans to begin with. Otherwise whats the point.

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      • algorithmae@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Are you really trying to compare a text/link service with ~10k users to a HD video service with millions of users?

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      • patient_tech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Video bandwidth is expensive. Plus YouTube pays the creators too for producing the content. I subscribe to YouTube, and haven’t had a real TV subscription in years. Totally still saving money. In terms of hours per dollar per month, it’s gotta be pennies for me. Plus YouTube music and downloading to my phone to save data is kinda nice too.

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    • shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hopefully most of us understand that. I think for a lot of us it’s privacy/ethical issues with Google

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  • Jajcus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You say content creators should not be paid for their work? And Google should provide all those servers and bandwidth for free?

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• CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m happy it works for you but unless no tracking/privacy violations is included in their subscription model this will not work for a lot of people here.

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  • nopersonalspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same, privacy concerns are huge for me. Also, there’s no way I’m paying $18.99 a month for it, that’s comically expensive. It’s the same as Netflix’s top tier plan, and at least Netflix has the expense of producing their own content to (attempt) to justify that cost.

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• GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol they downvoted you for using your disposable income how you wished.

  This is still Reddit after all.

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