Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video
hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 2 months agoThat’s nice of you, but it appears that the ad-supported business model doesn’t work. It just results in enshittification and surveillance.
“We cannot have a society in which, if two people seem to communicate, the only way that it can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”
Aux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No one will ever pay for services like YouTube. Thus ads is the only way.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Plenty of people pay for cable and streaming services lol, what are you on about?
Aux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
YouTube has a paid subscription which is ad free and with additional features. How many of you here, who complain about ads, use YouTube Premium? Mmm?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
A friend of mine pays for it, yes.
Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Youtube is my main source of entertainment. I will pay for premium no problem. And yes, I totally hate ads. A music service for free with it that has a comment section so I can discuss the music with my peers. Also, it’s insane the amount of data YouTube has to serve.