Looks like its over for me and youtube. Being told I cant watch because of an ad blocker.

Where is everyone moving to and using instead of youtube? I will just move to the same place.

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    1 year ago

    Actual unpopular opinion: get yt premium. It gives creators the money they would’ve got for you watching an ad, while giving you an ad free experience, and also includes yt music which might take some adjustments if you’re used to Spotify, but then you will also not be supporting Spotify which is probably the worst streaming service in terms of paying artists.

    (They’re all bad and many people would argue similarly against supporting Google via YouTube, so perhaps it’s a moot point, but that’s part of how I justify my sub to myself anyways.)

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      1 year ago

      Lol no. Youtube pays way less then spotify to the artists. Tidal and bandcamp are the only “ok” options.

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        1 year ago

        The few cents a creator gets from your youtube premium subscription is way more than they would ever get from you watching ads, so yes, OP is actually right.

        Just because they’re not gonna get a massive cut from your sub doesn’t mean it’s not the most beneficial solution for everyone.

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          1 year ago

          Sorry but I deeply disagree. Youtube is not the solution, it’s the problem. Giving money to youtube/google, hoping they will give back a fair share to creators is in absolutly no way “the most beneficial solution for everyone”. Sorry to say but that’s capitalism brainwashing. On bandcamp, you set your own price and get 90℅ of the revenues. Patreon, sponsoring, Tidal are all much more interesting solution. Soon enough, self-hosting will make services like youtube irrelevant, and we will finally get to create fair revenues for creators. Meanwhile, trusting any of the Gafam is just reinforcing their position.

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      1 year ago

      Even more unpopular opinion: come to terms with the fact that it’s not unreasonable for even a large company to want to charge a fee for the service that they provide and that I consume for several hours a week.