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.
archonet@lemy.lol 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago
I hope you mean ReVanced, otherwise… bBoy, I’ve got some news for you.
reev@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah, sorry, I do. Just never moved on from calling it Vanced haha
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago
Well said.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 4 days 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 5 days ago
I only simp for Steam.
garretble@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Gabe and his 300 yachts thanks you.
HerbieBangkok@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You won’t find many people on this platform not lining his pockets.