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.

"Actually I like getting cucked by YouTube" - you

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.

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.

I used to pay for YT.

I quit because they were very anti-creator and i did not support the changes they were making.

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.

Why pay for streaming sites that still give you ads like amazon or peacock, but won't pay for YouTube?

Fixed that for ya.

The way I see it, don't make your thing free for 20 years if you want people to pay for it. At this point, it's as natural and free as a summer's breeze in our minds.

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.