Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave

• LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People love premium. Let’s not confuse you and lemmys average user with the general public.

  $18 a month for family streaming + music is a bargain.

  Also, that’s all great that you use tools to get around it. My point is stop bitching about it or acting like Google is evil for blocking people who refuse to pay 🤷‍♂️

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  • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    $18 a month for family streaming + music is a bargain.

    Wow your brain really has been taken hostage hasn’t it?

    YouTube is a terrible music platform.

    YouTube videos aren’t worth that much to me.

    If I’m paying for streaming video content, I prefer to pay the creators directly than let YouTube take an outsize cut.

    YouTube has hundreds of times the reach of any other comparable service. They’re milking their monopoly. They can bite a dick.

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    • Remmock@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But you don’t pay them directly. Hardly anybody does, except YouTube and whatever midroll sponsor they can hack a deal with. That’s WHY content creators insisted on paydays through YouTube to begin with and why YouTube is trying to make enough money to pay them all and look profitable.

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      • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But I do pay the ones I value directly.

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    • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      👌👍🤣

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  • ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d agree that people love the tag-name ‘’Premium’’ therefore might pay for it. I’d also say tech-illiterate people will pay for it because of no knowledge.

    However most of the general public do find the price-tag absurd.

    Also your ‘’€18/monthly is a bargain’’ just makes me think, I’m arguing with a teenager or at least someone who does not pay for themselves (a friend or family member pays for most of things, I suppose). €18/monthly is €216/yearly, that money can be spent elsewhere, important things (food, education and bills).

    Not only that you are essentially saying ‘’Hey, Google. You the one who already owns most of the things, you the owner who’s already A billionaire and have immense data of its users – take more money of me’’. Google is essentially evil in the sense that their track-record isn’t clean. Their ways to gain profit/revenue is not really morally nor ethically right. They can just do it because they are one of the biggest companies in the world.

    I personally do not care if YouTube blocks itself for me, that just means – I will find another way to gain access to music and videos. There will always be ways, always.

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    • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love how people who disagree with your value assessment are all technology illiterate. Just hand wave away all your problems 🤣.

      You’re arguing with a 40 year old with commits to Apache, Python, CNCF, NGinx, TF, and more. So again, your hand waving away because of a different opinion is quite off base.

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      • ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Lets just say that person is tech-illiterate without actual knowledge about the particular person - because I have no counterargument”

        That what I just read from you.

        I’ll just block and ignore you, you’ve proven to be a total troll. Wasted enough of my time and energy on you. Unfortunately.

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      • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What in the world is motivating you to justify YouTube’s corpo enshittification? If you’re telling the truth, you’re easily old enough to realise that Baron Google isn’t going to share his wealth with useful idiots. Why would you spend your weekend extolling overpriced subscription services and berating ad avoiders on Google’s behalf?

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  • Remmock@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t generally agree with the corporate side of the argument, but financial support for the platform itself has to come from somewhere.

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