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Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy! (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I spend LOTS of money on physical media. Like on the order of thousands per year. If a company doesn't release their media physically, I figure they don't want my money and just pirate it.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    How do you apply this to a platform like YouTube? I don't even finish most of the videos I start watching there, and the ones I do, I'll likely never watch again anyway. Subscribtion seems much more logical profit model to a company like that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Free video sharing platforms are basically not viable as a business model. For a free and open internet to succeed, YouTube has to fail. At the moment, it only exists because Google subsidises it.

    The ideal way for video sharing to work is for large content creators to set up their own federated video hosting websites (or pay for someone else to do it for them) and potentially offer some small amount of free capacity for those who want to upload small, not-for-profit videos

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You don't need to pay a subscription fee to watch YouTube. What are you even talking about?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    He was discussing options where people oppose both ads and subscriptions as methods of payment for consumed media.

    IMO YouTube Premium is the only subscription that I will probably never cancel as not only does it pay more to content creators than ad revenue does (per individual viewing), it directly financially supports the hundred-odd creators I enjoy (large and small).

    If the cost is too high for you to justify, you can band together with friends to split the costs of a Family Plan and/or do as I do and VPN back to my home country where the cost is significantly less than it is where I live now!

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