I’m ok with all of that. It furthers my goal of hitting the platform back in response to their predatory marketing practices and de facto monopoly. Also, I do support creators outside of youtube. In short, I don’t feel bad about any of this.
Wouldnt that just cause them to increase prices more? Since now someone else has to pay for the bandwith you use?
Thus what you are doing is using your technological know how to offload your costs onto less technical users who can’t adblock.
The morally correct thing to do is to stop watching youtube and either go to a paid platform like floatplane or nebula and support the creators there, isn’t it? But let’s be honest, we all know you just want adfree youtube videos for free.
elliot_crane@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Tja@programming.dev 3 days ago
Prepare for the downvotes!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That might be their response, yes. But they also have some other options:
- improve the service to be worth the cost
- reduce the cost to increase Premium subs - I have a price in mind, and they’re way above it
- add an a la carte alternative to Premium (i.e. pay per video or something)
- cut expenses, such as by reducing the amount of useless videos that are uploaded (i.e. small charge to upload videos, recur every year; allow some amount for free)
But no, raising prices is the easier “solution.” I’m willing to pay (I pay for Nebula, after all), I’m just not willing to pay what they’re asking for the service as-is.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Okay, so if you are not willing to pay that’s entirely reasonable, you can then not use the service or use it with ads.
Dont get me wrong, I do have pirated movies and shows, it has reasons like scrubs they changed the music, community they took down an episode for no reason, but that shit doesn’t cost anyone anything I dont use extra bandwith or anything
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
There’s a third option: use the service with an ad blocker. The way I see it, that’s not piracy, it’s a TOS violation, and they’re free to block me from their site. But as long as I’m not bypassing copyright protections or something, it’s not piracy. I think using something like Invidious or other FEs could constitute piracy, but just using their website w/ an ad-blocker isn’t.
I’m willing to pay (again, I pay for Nebula), but I’m not willing to pay the price they’re asking for.
praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You think YouTube is some kind of Mom pop shop down the block? They have more than enough money to burn. Least they can do is to serve adfree videos, better, I might add.
Which is the reason why we should help people get adblocks more, which is also recommended by the FBI.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Level set: ads suck
Now, corporations are greedy right?
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Genuine question: What does Greedy Google do if we all install adblock on all our neighbors’ computers tonight?
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