Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 7 months agoNot a penny to those bastards. Should YouTube and Google along with it rot to hell, I don’t care. Meybe we’d finally get better alternatives running at full capacity.
Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
And who will pay for those?
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People valuing the content and the platform. For now our best chance for free platform is Odysee/Lbry - at least crypto bros can keep tue platform running for the sake of it. Or PeerTube, but less likepy since it’s more enthusiasm-driven, and enthusiasm only gets you so far. Also, Nebula, CuriosityStream and other similar subscription services are good - and people pay for them.
Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I pay for Youtube, but I’m clearly in the minority. Look at all the pitchforks in this thread not willing to pay one cent or watch one ad but demanding the content…
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There is a difference, though, and I know why those pitchforks are raised. YouTube is a video service behemoth, and it is owned by Google, a Big Tech company that has little respect for its users. It is one of the last things most Lemmy users (known on average for their hate of Big Tech, hence why we don’t have this discussion on Reddit) would want to support. Many of them would, and some do, support alternatives. But there is just nothing to the scale of YouTube, which exacerbates the problem as users often have nowhere else to go. And so they will do their best to use YouTube in a way that gives 0 benefits to Google, and will only be happy to see this giant fall and replaced by something more user-centric, free from corporate control, and privacy-friendly.