To add to your comment, I don’t understand the hate for YouTube. People go on their and post entire how to videos on all sorts of topics. I’ve learned how to code, how to use Linux, how to install flooring, how to 3D model using Fusion360, how some electronics work, how to fix my broken down car, etc. Because of the creators, YouTube has been such a valuable source of information that it’s almost offensive when I hear other people complaining about having to watch ads or pay for premium. There’s no paywall for the info, it’s accessible to anyone with an internet connection. There’s a lot of low quality clickbait on YouTube but if you avoid it, YouTube is amazing
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Prethoryn@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I either pay to use the app or I get ads that pay for the platform to continue being used but I don’t want to see the ads so my ad blocker blocks the ads.
A company is going to continue making revenue. I don’t know why anyone is shocked by a company that makes ads changing a site to ask you to view more ads. Genuinely baffled that users waste their time complaining about something a big trillion dollar company owns and actively runs changing their platform to continue making them trillions of dollars then getting on here and going, “take that Google I am fed up.”
Meanwhile, I have just been paying for YouTube premium with no ads supporting the content creators I love and moving on with my life.
a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 8 months ago
YouTube will probably slowly try and squeeze revenue out of its creators and/or users
Someone hasn’t been paying attention for the last ten years. I still remember a time when creators didn’t have to tiptoe around topica in a vain attempt to avoid having their revenue ripped away from them.
a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Point taken. I should have said something along the lines of:
probably continue to squeeze more and more revenue…
YouTube isn’t innocent in this but I think a lot of that censorship has been brought on by sociopolitical changes in the last ten years. The further extremes on each side have gotten louder and social platforms are being used to spread their ideas. YouTube is caught in the crossfire on that and instead of doing the right thing, they just censor everyone
Cringe2793@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes but all this knowledge is from the creators, not Google or YouTube. I don’t mind paying the creators through direct donations or Patreon or whatever, but I will not pay for YouTube.
a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
but I will not pay for YouTube.
I consider letting ads play or paying for a subscription ‘paying for YouTube’. So I’m curious as to why you wouldn’t?
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We obviously both agree that creators should be paid
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I think we can agree that YouTube should be paid something. They host the content, the replication, the back ups, and they provide a single location for viewers to aggregate which helps all creators find new viewers. That is expensive to do and is valuable for creators
Is it the amount of ads they play, the amount they charge for premium, the revenue split doesn’t give enough to creators, or something else?
Cringe2793@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s nothing so complicated. I just don’t want to. I feel like they earn enough money from collecting (and selling) my data. If they don’t, then they wouldn’t keep doing this.
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HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
*supporting the shareholders who care not for you, the company, nor the content creators.
Fades@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who asked
Cringe2793@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I contribute to the content creators I like directly through Patreon. They benefit more from that.
Google doesn’t really do anything deserving of my money, so I use adblockers on yt. Simple as that.
38fhh2f8th5819c7@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It won’t be long before they either jack up their prices or squeeze some ads into your paid subscription. Or both. Fuck em I say.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
pushing ads into a paid service seems to be the latest trend.
HelloHotel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The big problem is it also (accedentially or not) harms interoperability. (Nothing is as safe as saving a video to your local storage media.) There are many tools for youtube that scrape the site for metadata or the video/audio itself (discord music bot, yt-dlp, nicer FOSS modern UI android apps like Newpipe, socialblade, etc…) I fear these could be broken by a change like this. Its secretly just the twitter/reddit API debate again.
witx@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Nop what you’ve been doing is paying a billion dollar company to keep making their, once free product, worse so people can pay to make the bad parts go away.
bort@feddit.de 8 months ago
I generally agree with subscriptions. “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”.
But there are better platforms to support with your money. Youtubes main selling point was that it was free. Now that it is not, it’s a good time to look into paid alternatives. For music I am already using bandcamp and spotify. For general documentaries I plan to switch to Nebula/CuriosityStream (I planned this for some time now, but I this may be the nail in the coffin)
anarchy79@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t know why anyone is shocked that people don’t want to be brainwashed by advertising on internet services so staple they should be considered utilities.