Poeple think they are sharing their enormous profits with creators. Maybe they get a few bucks from the billions.
Comment on Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 year ago
The amount of downvotes on comments trying to help people not get price gouged shows me just how many corporate shills are actually out there. No wonder these corps keep getting away with this bullshit.
mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 year ago
BaldrOdinson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s surprising to me. First moment I’ve thought maybe Lemmy is a worse place to be. Is there really that many astroturfing trolls here? Yikes.
ZodiacSF1969@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yet year over year, the prices keep going up even with record inflation
Well yeh, that’s what inflation is…
marmo7ade@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like how you can insult people by calling them a shill because they support youtube premium, but if I insult you, mods delete me comment. Nice double standards. You are a child who thinks they are entitled.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 year ago
You can say what you want to or about me, I honestly don’t care. I didn’t even see what you said or report it. Have fun emptying your wallet for your corpo overlords.
soulifix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t understand what shilling will earn for these people. The corps don’t care about you. They never will and never have. Do these shills think there’s some comfy bonus to be gained if they wave their flag around in support of greedy practices?
USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 year ago
Well apparently it makes them “adults” according to some of the responses I got.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not going to defend the price increase, but a lot of comments in here are just aimless hatred of the idea of paying anything, ever.
Pound for pound, YouTube Premium has been a decent deal at $10. Has been. This is pushing it, but there’s a lot of comments that seem absolutely indignant at the idea of paying YouTube anything ever (and by extension the content creators).
There’s got to be some room for nuance here. The internet is plagued by advertising and paywalls, yes, but it can also not exist without them, so we find some middle ground.
MagicalPanda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been using the internet for over 24 years. I can tell you that the internet can survive without ads or paywalls. Ads and paywalls are a product of greed. Ads are way more efficient these days but many used to take up so much memory. I remember when AdBlock or whatever it was called came out. It made browsing the internet smoother.
atomWood@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The only way the internet can survive without ads or paywalls is for the person/business hosting the content to pay for everything out of pocket.
A platform like YouTube could never exist without some form of revenue. I understand that there are small platforms out there, such as PeerTube, but they will never be comparable to the scale of YouTube without some form of revenue. Sure, people could grow PeerTube by spinning up their own instances, but then they need to provide their own hardware and storage. At which point you’re spending just as much, or likely more, than you would on a subscription service.
Karza@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It can definitely exist without advertising and paywalls. It just going to be smaller.