Even if you take YouTube premium they are still farming your data and selling it to third parties.
The big data-farmers like Google aren’t selling it to third parties. It’s worth far more if kept to themselves and used to build an ad platform.
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Tetsuo@jlai.lu 12 hours agoWhat I’m not ok with YouTube premium :
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The price is too high for a subscription. For that price I could get thousands of movies on a competing service like Netflix.
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Even if you tzkr YouTube premium they are still farming your data and selling it to third parties.
So even if I watch a ton of YT I refuse to pay to sell my data.
If I pay for YT they have to not track me and not sell my data (at least data coming from YT).
So yeah taking YT is hassle free but is quite the scam if you think avout it. Before paying you were the product. After paying you are still the product but on top of that you give them money.
FishFace@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Your second point is specifically the reason I don’t pay for Premium. I would actually really like to but unless there is some kind of guarantee they won’t be double dipping, I’m not going to.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
As long as people are actually willing to get scammed (and boy did the threshold get low in the last decades), scammers will scam.
wackoCamel@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I think the price is a far better deal than Netflix. Even when I had Netflix, basically all I watched was Breaking Bad. Shows I like or want to view now just live on my media server. It came to a point I couldn’t find anything interesting to watch and cancelled it. I don’t remember the last time I watched an actual movie. There is so much more than I’ll ever have the time to watch on Youtube. If they want to use what I watch to attempt to show me ads I’m very likely never going to see elsewhere, I honestly don’t care. They are going to try to show me ads which will almost certainly get blocked, anyway. I’m not watching anything on Youtube I wouldn’t mind telling anyone about anyway.
I don’t feel scammed, and it impacts my day-to-day life in no ways aside from saving me time having to fiddle with my network for 30 minutes every time an actual video won’t load because I’m trying to block a 30-second ad at the router.
Netflix also sells data to 3rd party marketing services.