Somehow paying for Netflix is fine but god forbid I want to watch a 10 hour loop of the DS9 intro without ads.

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      YouTube Music is the reason I sail the high seas if you equate blocking ads to pirating. I neither want nor need it, but I now have to subscribe to it to get Premium.

      I was paying for YT Premium before that predatory bundling to justify an insane price hike. It’s not worth 12€/month, sorry Google.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think most people are angry with YouTube premium because it’s a service that doesn’t give you anything. It’s a service where they stop annoying you. But it doesn’t unlock anything new that you didn’t have before, doesn’t give you access to content or data you don’t have access to, it doesn’t improve the service. It just removes the annoyances they put there deliberately. So people are a little angry about it

    It’s a protection racket, for your attention and time.

    • nnjethro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It includes youtube music. And creators you watch get more money than if you watched using the ad supported version.

      • UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        • You also get to play video with a screen off on mobile

        • You also get to download for offline viewing

        • You also support the creators of the videos, not just google.

        • AND FFS YOU DONT GET ADS.

        Using adblock isnt some innate human right. They are well within their rights to block adblock.

        You get almost the whole worlds information for free in video form. You can be entertained or use it as a teaching tool. It is the best place at this point for product demos and reviews. It is a crazy wealth of information and infrastructure that everyone takes advantage of and somehow just expect to be free. If Google cancells it because it is not profitable, i would bet the efficiency of the entire human race takes a significant nose dive. It also probably runs one of the highest sets of data storage and encoding on the planet.

        • K3zi4@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Can do all of those things without premium if you have the right apps.

          But besides that, absolutely not. I remember when YouTube was free with no ads, I remember when the adverts first started appearing, and that’s when it became obvious that they were trying to annoy you into a pay model. It took a little longer than expected, but sure enough, they ramped up the ads until “YOUTUBE PREMIUM! PAY FOR NO ADVERTS!”

          Fuck that, I had no adverts before and they took that away. But the worst part is that they harvest my private data and make money from me already. As far as I’m concerned, that’s my subscription to their shit, in their perverse data selling.

          No fucking way I’m going to also pay them for the privilege to have my private data sold.