• emax_gomax@lemmy.world
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        3 years ago

        Google has been shamelessly destroying all their projects the last few years in a desperate fit to make money. They’ve weakened ad blockers on chrome, they’ve altered the search algorithm so random BS is mixed in with regular to drive towards sponsored content, their starting to setup browser level DRM and creating un skipable ads. None of this is for anything more than greed and desperation. They no longer see anything other than money as the end goal and don’t care if their selling a shittier product at a higher price than no one was ever even willing to pay for. F*ck google.

        • regbin_@lemmy.world
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          3 years ago

          YT Premium costs less than $4 for me and I also get YT Music. It sure beats paying $4 for only a music service.

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              3 years ago

              I’ll stop paying when it stops working. Also regional pricing. I pay around $3.9 for Premium + Music.

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        3 years ago

        I support the sentiment, but today everything is a service that wants your money, this resource is finite. And when it comes to YouTube, it’s not even about whether you like it or not: YouTube is a monopolist.

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          3 years ago

          And that’s how things die due to no revenue. Running YouTube is expensive af and the more people who used things like revanced, the worse things will become for everyone else.

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            3 years ago

            Maybe they shouldn’t operate in the first place if they cannot think of a sustainable business model without f*ing their users up.

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              3 years ago

              Basically everything within capitalism fucks over someone that’s just business as usual 8n out society. Usually to a much worse degree, think the children who likely made your clothes for next to nothing. I’m all for tearing down the system, but there’s not a whole lot as an individual that I can do.

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              3 years ago

              You’ll care as more and more people have to quit YouTube or make progressively more shit content to appease the algorithm. It also makes it harder and harder for new people to start on YouTube.

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        3 years ago

        I’ll gladly pay for a service that doesn’t thrive on pushing propaganda down people’s throats to maximize watch time and that isn’t actively trying to make my user experience miserable by removing downvotes, forcing shorts and so on.

        I’d rather pay someone to kick me in the nuts. Sounds like a better deal tbh.

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            3 years ago

            And you realize that YouTube will do everything in their hands to stop you from using these apps in the future right? That was kinda the point of the article.

            Making people pay (with their time and attention) while they are already paying for subscription will not encourage more people to buy premium.