Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 months agoYeah. As with many things, "Can this make money?" is not the same as "Is this a nice thing to have around?" and the disconnect between the two when capitalism tends to assume they'll be the same thing, is a source of unhappiness in many ways.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 months ago
Funnily enough, one of the things Reddit’s PCM community tried to push was the concept of nationalizing YouTube because “it’s a public service.”
They thought the average browser was too stupid to ask why all these Nazis wanted that, where all of a sudden the 1st Amendment actually comes into play, and now you can’t take down their blatant misinformation and hate speech.
bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Hmm that’s pretty fucking clever for complete choads.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 months ago
Idk. This was around all the drama of Trump getting banned from Twitter, and nationalization just isn’t something the forces of neoliberalism do. At least openly.
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good point, i never thought about that angle. Looks like the only option is self hosting then.