Google has billions. YouTupe pirates (can we call ourselves that yet?) are not going to bankrupt Google. In fact, they’ll spend more on their crackdown.
But Google is beholden to its shareholders, whose interests are diametrically opposed to that of the general public, so any gain by Google is a loss to the rest of us.
So any profit we can deny the Google machine remains instead in the economy, rather than vaulted in offshore accounts or used to further lock down the empires of the shareholders.
The day I can’t watch YouTube sans commercials is the day I quit watching YouTube. And then it will get absolute-zero engagement from me.
So bring it. I do not need YouTube, and it needs viewers like me.
Fades@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Corpo shill
Taringano@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Só your solution is instead of charging the viewer charge who? The person that puts videos up?
Do you really think your anonymized user data is worth the 20 bucks/user the YouTube premium costs?
In your mind YouTube can just sell the data for the 2 billion users they have and instantly make 40 billion dollars a month from that?
Gabu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If the data isn’t worth it, why are these cunts stealing it?
papertowels@lemmy.one 1 year ago
They’re “stealing” the data if they hacked another platform and got a hold of the data there.
You are literally using their website. You are giving them your data.
You want to stop them from “stealing” your data, stop using their services.
Taringano@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Worth something, not 20 bucks per user per month.
ayyndrew@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The data is only useful because they can use it to run ads