• xektop@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I pay for YouTube because it does give more revenue than watching an ad to the creators. I pay 6$ and watch hundreds of hours monthly. If it was more than that I will consider alternatives and AdBlock (what I was doing before started my sub). To each their own :)

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          I don’t want to set up Patreon for every creator I’m watching. Often I just watch one or two videos from them and that’s it.

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          Some do, others don’t and as someone else said i am not going to make Patreon and do monthly sub to each of them. As I said I watch hundreds of hours per month and it’s not from 4-5 creators. For me it’s worth - I pay for the infrastructure and some support for the people I watch. If it’s free for you it means someone else is paying.

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        It’s the equivalent of $16.50 a month where I live and that is not an insignificant proportion of my monthly income. The adverts are constantly repeating and often for products and services that are actual scams. I firmly believe as soon as enough people pay… we’ll have to pay more or they will show us a smaller number of “specially selected” ads.

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          The more you pay, the more advertisers recognize you as a lucrative crowd and wanna get in your face.

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        5 months ago

        I think it’s hilariously naïve. The comments will be scraped anyway, and there’s nothing you can do about it

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        It was enough to convince a few others to do the same, however pointless it is. They’ve been told before, but don’t care either way and will keep doing it.

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      5 months ago

      If the France sports dns blocking has proved anything it’s that most people just don’t bother. And if it doesn’t work just accept it instead of just changing a DNS setting in a computer.

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      $20 month for family music streaming plus the insane amount of good content is a bargain. Y’all just want to be salty they are forcing you to stop freeloading 🤣.

      • Mango@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        When Google stops deciding which content creators matter and which don’t, I’ll pay. When I can have my subscriptions feed un-fucked with by their political agenda, I’ll pay. When my home feed doesn’t send me the same goddamn rich kids videos as suggestions for months on end like there’s some chance I just overlooked them and they’re slightly related to my interests, I’ll pay. YouTube is complete garbage. Some of those content creators can have my money. YouTube cannot.

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        5 months ago

        I’m not affected since I use freetube and newpipe. This affects people who were actually paying and watching YouTube logged in but not people like me.