Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household
archonet@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago“If you just give them your wallet right away, the mugging isn’t so bad, really. They didn’t even kick my teeth in!” 🤓
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
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.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I hope you mean ReVanced, otherwise… bBoy, I’ve got some news for you.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I agree that it would make more sense if they called it a “household” plan. That’s clearly what it is.
FishFace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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?
Hominine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well said.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
HerbieBangkok@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I only simp for Steam.
garretble@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gabe and his 300 yachts thanks you.
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I know. I thought we were upvoting respectful debate, not having a popularity contest. But apparently not…
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a “product” that profits billions off other people’s - often stolen - works.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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…?
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You are missing something. Multiple things actually.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I’m willing to sacrifice some of my valuable internet points here and be down voted to low hell.
I was going to make a comment along those lines.
They are, at the core, an ad company. Their motivation is to make money, and we are free to pay or not pay for their services.
The idea that we have a right to a non essential product for free is entitlement. They make a shit load of money, but also pay money to most content creators. Could they provide a service where they essentially just pay for costs? Sure, but no for profit Corp is going to do that, it has to make money somehow. While I’m all for peer tube, I really don’t know if it’s sustainable.
I wonder how many of the people who demand free access to services donate to FOSS Development.
Maybe some form of consumer co-op, where users essentially pay for operating costs, could be an option.
HerbieBangkok@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.