It feels like a culture war between corporations and the OG user base. They reeled us in and monopolized the market with the idea of “free”. Now that competitors are few and far between, they want to change the game and reel in literal billions. I have absolutely no sympathy for their “lost profits”. They are making enough as-is, and I have no problems saying that out loud.
Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year agoLemmy users only want to use foss and not pay a single penny. How dare you suggest they pay a tiny amount to help pay for servers and the creators they’re watching!
FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
[deleted]FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Could you explain what you mean by that comment?
manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
Lol you again being a cuck. Literally a perfect consumer. Give all your money away, and maybe I should give you a link to my PayPal since you’re such a philanthropist. Take your privilege and fuck off
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
My privilege? You’re expecting servers to pay for themselves without ads or subscriptions. Idiot.
manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
Keep sucking off billionaires you fucking sodomite
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
How? Because I understand how the world works? How do you expect servers to get paid for? Genuine question. Ads or subscriptions are the only way.
Continue to be a begging chooser.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Some of us are legitimately broke (or on a very limited income). I get that some folk believe it’s the capitalist way to force us to starve or succumb to the elements to demonstrate to others that humans have no value other than their productive worth to some plutocrat.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die!
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Ya I know. I’m living pay cheque to pay cheque. If I can’t afford something, I watch ads. It’s simple.
Why do you expect everything free?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Actually I expect some day the benefits that allow me to survive will end and I’ll be another statistic.
But for now, the United States feels that I’m better off alive, though destitute, and unable to actually afford rent in California.
In the meantime, the millennials and zoomers I know don’t expect to own anything ever. They eat whatever cheap food they can afford and pay rent and utilities and have a handful of trappings, and people write articles about how they’re not into diamonds or owning real estate, or keeping a savings account. And one by one, they too are slipping through the cracks, usually when they slip down the stairs or get injured at work or catch a cold and don’t have the strength to go into their job when their boss calls them desperate for a filler.
So regardless of what I expect, our establishment companies don’t want to give anyone anything. They reward hard workers by working them harder.
I don’t watch ads because they’re antagonistic. I tend to avoid anything that features dark patterns because I’m susceptible to them, and they signal the product has been contaminated by its manufacturers with malicious intent.
Shurimal@kbin.social 1 year ago
I can't afford to pay 20€ per month--that's more than my whole monthly phone bill with something like 50 or 100 GB of data. Cost of living is high enough as it is.
I also lack the most valuable currency there is in one's life, one that you simply can't get more of. Time. So I block ads, which cost a lot of time, with extreme prejudice.
Ads are also bad for my mental health, they just irritate me, rack up stress and easily swing me into bad mood.
Lastly, I don't give a fuck about costing money to some multi-billion corporation. I don't care about them as much as they don't care about me; the corpos see me just as a resource to exploit as much as possible then move on to another one when there's nothing more to exploit, and I see the corpos exactly the same way. Call it mutual parasitism. Yes, I'm a parasite. And parasites are the most successful lifeforms on Earth.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
papertowels@lemmy.one 1 year ago
TIL watching an ad is being treated subhuman.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Okay. Just because you are a begging chooser doesn’t mean everyone is.