That’s a flippant response when you were asked specifically to pretend they were your monkeys.
Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months agoHonestly?
Not my monkeys, not my circus.
I don’t care what YouTube wants to do or how they do it, they need viewers and if they can’t figure out how to keep em, ah well.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 7 months ago
Well, actually, they have to create a service that caters to people who bring them revenue. If that isn't you, they don't have to, and actively shouldn't, cater to you at all.
You're just saying "I don't have an actual answer" in a roundabout way.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Well, I don’t, but it isn’t my problem.
Google makes enough money as is, I don’t really care if the make poor decisions and end up with an unviable business model. I’ll do other things with my time.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 7 months ago
Alternatively, they'll take steps towards a more viable business model, and you'll also find other things to do with your time.
You can zap all ads forever with a few minutes and a credit card, if you're willing.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
That’s the thing with ads. They’re a thorn in my side. That Google puts there.
If you were charging me to remove the thorns you put in my side, I’d be belligerent towards you. And I ain’t gonna give ya money.
TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For someone who doesn’t care and has no viable responses to the questions here, you sure do have a lot to say.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
It’s true, I’m very passionate about never viewing any advertisements!
drkt@feddit.dk 7 months ago
The reason I don’t bring them revenue is because they continue to make the experience worse. Paying isn’t going to make that stop, it’s just going to temporarily shift the bar a little; the bar is however still moving towards a shittier experience for all.
Why would I look at this and go “Yes, I’ll pay!” There are a lot of services I would genuinely pay for if I didn’t have an impending dread that the service is just about to get worse again regardless of if I pay or not. It’s not like paying is a magic bullet, either, it comes with a ton of different issues like privacy. They still sell your soul to advertisers if you pay them.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 7 months ago
Ultimately, they have no obligation to provide you something of value for free, and given that you do apparently use YouTube, they are objectively providing you something of value. They're completely within their rights to not do that.
drkt@feddit.dk 7 months ago
I’ll gloss over that you either missed my point or ignored it; I don’t use YouTube because it’s too shit, actually.
I don’t pay for any Google services, not that I’m using any with any consistency anymore, for the same reason that I don’t use them anymore. Google cannot be trusted to provide a good service, paying costumer or not. If you punish me for using the free product, why would I ever trust you? Steam doesn’t slap me across the face at every chance it gets when I don’t spend money on their store for a long period of time, yet I have no issue paying for the games I do want to play despite piracy being completely risk-free by comparison.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
That goes both ways. I can stop providing youtube with free content.
roo@lemmy.one 7 months ago
I paid for Lynda.com, and it could have easily taken in more business if YouTube wasn’t working so hard for Google ads. There are a lot of paid (and free) services that suffer because of YouTubes ad-money business model.
Netflix could use the extra business. There are plenty of services failing to thrive while YouTube exists. Peertube would be wide open if YouTube went the way of most of Google’s stable of apps. PeerTube is wide open even if YouTube doesn’t go away anyway.
People genuinely hate ads. It’s a high degree of enshitification. YouTube could divide into paid content and free content in a simple Freemium model.
Or, add third tier with ads, which any user can opt out of in the same way contributers can. I’d be happy to click subscribe on an ad free experience with less content available to me.
Or, add an option for a couple of free tier items per month, week, or day. Like Medium’s business model.
It’s not hard to stop sucking!
_number8_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
well its not my problem