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submitted 5 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 107 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Even if they keep the screen black for 30 second to a minute, I'd still gladly wait in silence than be subjected to advertisements.

If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I'll just leave the platform. I have no loyalty to YouTube and I'll sooner dump the platform and move on to other video sites than deal with enshittification and ads.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I’ll just leave the platform.

    Yep. Then it will be time to finally start exploring peertube or something...

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    i wish peertube had more/better discovery tools

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The problem isnt discovery its content. There isnt much good content on there. You'll find the good stuff pretty quickly.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago*

    I take that personally :(

    Actually most of my videos are just boring things that I find interesting, and I get just as many views on there as I did on YouTube. And the autocaptions are waaaaaay better.

    What I like about peertube is it's just people uploading for the love of it, not content farms and AI slop chasing a quick buck.

    Edit: oh yeah and not having multiple ads on my videos.

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  • [+] -31 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    But they offer an ad free plan that isn't expensive, and the service is really fast and reliable, and comes with YouTube music as well. Why pay for streaming sites that still give you ads like amazon or peacock, but won't pay for YouTube?

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    I don't pay for streaming sites. 🏴‍☠️ And I definitely won't give YouTube any money. I've always been able to browse their videos without paying a cent. I'm not about to start now.

    Besides, I don't like how everything has become subscription services nowadays. You used to be able to pay once and own a product. Now you need to pay monthly to have temporary access to a constantly changing library. No thanks, I'll only spend money on things I can own forever.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    "Actually I like getting cucked by YouTube" - you

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  • [+] -8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I love ad free music on my car, and no ads on my phone and pc, i and support company's they allow my to get this service. You enjoy pricing every company is right to go to the ad models because people won't pay for the ad free versions.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I just dont trust them not to use the payment and account info to track me more for every other ad they serve.

    They get nothing.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Why pay for streaming sites that still give you ads like amazon or peacock

    I don't? Anyone who pays for a service to show them ads is a rube?

    I would actually consider paying for a service like Youtube if it truly was as simple as that, but it isn't. Even if they aren't showing ads after your buy premium, they are still collecting, training on, and selling your data and habits. This is payment. I don't believe in double-dipping; if I'm already paying in my data, then I'm not going to give you money or watch your ads.

    If you want to show ads without harvesting data or offer a way to pay monetarily that stops ads and data harvesting, then I'll watch ads or buy. But I absolutely do no accept double-dipping. If I'm already paying, I'm not paying again.

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  • [+] -9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    So you watch ads and get your data collected? That's crazy.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No, I don't watch ads?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Not expensive? I just checked. It's 8€/m for me. Which means 96€/year.

    Maybe that's not expensive for the USAians that earn hundreds of thousands per year. But it is expensive to just remove a few ads that can be easily blocked. It won't even stop the Google tracking, it just stops the ads on YouTube. An ad blocker will also block the tracking.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    not OP but personally I watch maybe 2h of YT /month. Because I only watch one dude who posts about monthly, then the rest is just random links I'm clicking from a post or something. I donate to the guy periodically. The other links half of them are news clips or something that I could prob just get from their site.

    The one-size model just doesn't fit my use case. I'd pay for a per-time-watched plan if it was reasonably priced but it doesn't even exist.

    Honestly I could do without it entirely. Personally.

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