Comment on Lemmy users when I mention I pay for Youtube Premium

Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If your reason is only moral, then you should also never use the service.

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  • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Moral reasons

    🙄

    A corporation can blatantly violate the law, bribe politicians, ignore its TOS whenever its suits them, but a second somebody wants to use a heavily subsidised service without being assaulted by advertising, suddenly a gaggle of concern trolls pop up to lecture about “stealing service”. Buddy, simping for Alphabet will get you nowhere.

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    • Anemia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you are against them on a moral basis then use another service, I imagine that has a more negative impact on them. If you just want no ads, pay for it.

      I hate ads as much as the next guy and use a variety of blockers but i’ll pay for any service with a reasonable payment method.

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      • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The price of food items has gone almost 50% up during last year, and I already pay for utilities and internet. I ain’t paying shiiiiiiiit.

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      • LaggyKar@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What other service will let me watch YouTube videos?

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• regbin_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t give them viewership too.

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• Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This right here. I did youtube premium one time to watch the first season of cobra kai. And then immediately dropped it when that same month 3 content creators I followed all came forward with videos of how they were getting obviously fraudulent copyright strikes, demonetized over things that they didn’t do wrong and youtube just screwing them over cause they could.

  A company that makes billions in profits could easily afford to put better content creator support in place and cover costs or disputes against content creators so none of the people who make their site profitable in the first place ever have to worry if they’ll still be paid for the hours and hours they devote to their channel only for a troll or bad faith actor to make a false claim on their videos and irrevocably remove income.

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• ours@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re giving too much credit, Youtube doesn’t care and is running on AI autopilot. This benefits IP abusers, thieves, and trolls and hurts legitimate creators. But it’s not on purpose, it’s just indifference.

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• Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You Dutch? Pretty sure red cent is a Dutch saying.

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