wow just wow while i can’t say i didn’t see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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    1 year ago

    This statement is extremely stupid. YouTube is a free service to you. It is dammed expensive to run, and they pay for it by showing you ads. It’s the exact same thing as ltelevision channels that show ads. it’s paid for by ads. You are not freeing the internet by blocking ads, you’re driving the content providers to have no money. I hate ads as much as anyone but unless you want to pay $20 a month for YouTube, then stop whining

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      Don’t come at me with a toxic Reddit attitude. The issue is not about paying for a service. For example, people are willing to donate to the fediverse to keep servers running. The problem is that the current state of the internet is dominated by paywalls, tracking and ads. Even if I paid for YouTube they’d still track me, feed me garbage from an algorithm and try to sell things to me (relentlessly).

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        YouTube wants to double dip by collecting and selling your data, and forcing you to either get served ads or pay them $15/month. They want to have their cake and eat it too.

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        It’s amazing how many people don’t get this. YouTube was never “free” to begin with. We paid heavily with our data and privacy as google changed its business model to surveillance capitalism. Now google is getting people to fork over actual money in addition to that.

        The issue isn’t ads per se even though they are annoying. I use DDG which is ad supported. It’s the big tech control over most of the internet and the complete eradication of privacy and control under surveillance capitalism.

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        Lemmy can rely on donations now, but I don’t see that being a long term solution for Lemmy. I won’t be surprised if instances go bankrupt in the future.

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        Most people perfere ads over paying.

        And the algorithm is very useful to discover new content, most of the people I follow is thanks to the algorithm.

        And that is hypocrite comment. Let’s block all ads and now you have to donate every site you visit… No one like ads but that’s how things work.

        I disagree with reddit approach, but is like some devs were making no money, if millions a years is making no money.

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      More devices, content, and people are online than ever before, and the user experience has never been worse. It is one of the most significant advancements in human history, and its not-so-slowly going to shit because of corporate greed.

      It’s Google’s right to serve ads however they want, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call for a competitor that doesn’t treat users like garbage.