“If you just give them your wallet right away, the mugging isn’t so bad, really. They didn’t even kick my teeth in!” 🤓
Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 17 hours agoIf you pay, the platform remains great. I get a discounted YouTube premium membership through my mobile phone company. I think YouTube is great, I never see ads, lots of features.
Just to offer an alternative view.
archonet@lemy.lol 17 hours ago
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
It’s a product. You can buy it or not. If you don’t think it’s worth it, stay away, or stay on the free tier. You’re acting as if you’ve got some kind of right to use a service that’s provided by a commercial entity.
archonet@lemy.lol 16 hours ago
and it’s a multi-billion dollar corporation, that already makes more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetimes, that actively strives to make the user experience worse for people who don’t pay, when they’ve got a practical monopoly in the “free video sharing platform” space. And you’re whiteknighting for them. 🤡 Image
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
By Darwin you see a lot. I was merely stating that I think YouTube premium is worth the price I pay for it.
Is there no product you are satisfied with? Your life must be pretty bleak.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetimes
I mean, I feel like you need to expand your comparison a little as the amount that you’ll see in your lifetime is such a minute grain of sand on a beech compared to corporate profits. The money they made today, hell, in the last hour… minute… will dwarf the amount that you will likely see.
reev@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
actively strives to make the user experience worse for people who don’t pay
And evidently those who do! My parents live in a different country. What are they, not my family? What’s the family plan for? (Rhetorical question)
With Vanced I have so many more options to customize my experience. I can hide shorts I never watch, set a fixed resolution for data and wifi, return the stupid dislike ratio they removed… And if I’m using Vanced anyway to fix all the issues they introduce, why on earth would I additionally pay for their service?
I want to pay for their shit, especially to support content creators, but I can’t support a platform whose singular mission it is to make everything worse for everyone constantly. Feels like every month I have to get a new extension to undo some horrible design decision.
FishFace@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
whiteknighting
was a weak-ass criticism when it was on 4chan being leveled at anyone who said anything not derogatory about a woman, and it’s weak-ass now. Oh no, someone on the internet has an at-least-partially positive opinion of a company, how awful, we’d better stereotype and body-shame them for it.
If you had your way, the only comments about YouTube - or any other product from a large company - that would be allowed would be negative ones. How the fuck does that make sense?
lobut@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I’ll join you in the downvotes. There’s many reasons to hate YouTube. Asking them to pay for video content to everyone for free is a bit silly.
I’m also not saying you shouldn’t use alternatives or run an ad-blocker. Those are cool. I just find it funny how someone is saying: “I get some benefit in paying for this service” results in such backlash, lol.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
I know. I thought we were upvoting respectful debate, not having a popularity contest. But apparently not…
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s a “product” that profits billions off other people’s - often stolen - works.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
YouTube steals other people’s work?
I tend to watch content creators who willingly put their content on YouTube. Am I missing something here…?
HerbieBangkok@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
This community is a toxic craphole. Just watch how they will be defend Steam which is a comparable service that steals from and exploits game developers.
grue@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Wow, shilling for YouTube premium and anti-net-neutrality (the “discount through your phone company” part) in one comment.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I don’t think that has anything to do with net neutrality
grue@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Allowing ISPs to pick and choose winners among web services is absolutely what Net Neutrality is about. Bundling or discounting subscriptions isn’t technically the same thing as zero-rating, but the end result of making a particular ISP-preferred service cheaper than alternatives is the same.
FishFace@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You’re just trying to piggyback on a vaguely-related concept that your audience already likely hates. Call things what they are, not what would be convenient to you if they were.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Is recommending a product that you’re satisfied with “shilling”?
Is there a product in this world that you think is worth the price? Does that make you a shill?
overload@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Do you have a means of removing sponsors on the mobile app though? Revanced has sponsorblock and adblock in the app.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
You mean removing sponsor led segments inside a video? Sort of. The jump ahead feature, which I think is a premium feature, allows you to jump in the video based on where everywhere else is jumping in the video. So when a sponsored segment starts and you skip forward 30s (double tap on mobile, ‘k’ on PC) you are offered to jump ahead. You click that and you get to the end of the sponsored segment.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Do you pay them or did they pay you?
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
I pay nothing for YouTube and don’t get ads. YMMV
int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
same here, I use invidious!
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
yewtu.be FTW!
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I get no ads, and I’m not logged in for them to track me and sell my data.