Comment on How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
query@lemmy.world 8 months ago
People shouldn’t be paying to opt out of ads, websites should be paying their users for what they’re exploiting for.
Comment on How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
query@lemmy.world 8 months ago
People shouldn’t be paying to opt out of ads, websites should be paying their users for what they’re exploiting for.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 8 months ago
There's no pleasure in saying it, but Youtube proves that they are comfortable having their cake and eating it too.
Show users ads? Check.
Make people buy Premium to get out of seeing ads? Check.
Pay their content creators (who are also users)? Check.
Exploiting those creators with manipulative metrics and dashboards? Check.
Slowly paying paying them less and less, and sometimes not paying them at all? Check.