wow just wow while i can’t say i didn’t see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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    Probably get shit for this, but…

    I just pay for Premium.

    YT has literally become my cable. I listen to music, watch movies, documentaries, stand up comedy, news, sports… and cat videos, obviously.

    To me it’s just worth it to pay a bit of money each month and have the whole thing just available to me.

    I feel like if you were to put a money value on all the complaining, stomping of feet and trying to side-step the ads I’ve seen over the last several years, you’d probably find it’s actually less to just pay and enjoy it.

    Just my opinion, of course…

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      1 year ago

      you do you if you use it that much and you think it’s worth your money then good for you ( i honestly mean it ) we don’t like youtube ads, YES that is true but it is not the only reason :

      • some of us hate youtube ( and google by extent ) for tracking
      • some of us hate youtube because it’s algorithms tricking us into forcing certain agendas and ideals upon us
      • some of us hate youtube because the hypocrisy around how they treat content creator differently yet claiming they are all under the same “rules”

      the list goes on but what i want to say is that we don’t hate people who pay for youtube we hate those who defend the platform like it’s a white knight and nothing shady happening in it

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      1 year ago

      It’s the principle of the matter to me. Google became the multibillion dollar corporation it is by selling my data, your data, everyones data. To then come around and demand I pay to continue using their service the way I have for over a decade? But also still continue selling our data? Nah, fuck that. When they cut me in a percentage on the data selling business, maybe then I’d consider premium.

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      1 year ago

      Google sucks and YouTube is evil.
      If they were not such an explicitly and overtly shitty company, I’d pay for premium no qualms.
      As it is, I wouldn’t give them a dollar if the CEO would personally suck me off.