5 bucks? If only.. It's 12 euros per month here, which is simply too expensive for the kind of content I watch on YT. Especially considering the amount of baked in product placement (VPN, diet plans, that kind of crap) that I come across, I'm not paying that kind of money just to still get hammered with commercials. Sorry, but YouTube Premium is a bad deal here.

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Either watch ads or pay for Premium. Or don't watch Youtube. Those are the three choices most people will have. And it's Youtube's right as a private platform to give them those choices.

It's worth it for me because I watch a lot of Youtube. In return, I don't watch traditional TV, so I don't pay for cable or similar things.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

My choice: Firefox with uBlock Origin because I get to decide what reaches my screen

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Either watch ads or pay for Premium

Unfortunately though it is 'pay for Premium and still watch ads'. So many videos have the ads baked in by the content creators. Yes, you can manually seek forward, but that's annoying and defeating the purpose of Premium. Especially for the price they ask in my country.

Either watch ads or pay for Premium. Or don't watch Youtube. Those are the three choices most people will have. And it's Youtube's right as a private platform to give them those choices.

I fully agree, never suggested otherwise. But fortunately free speech allows us to have an opinion about a product.

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

I get what you're saying, and yes, sponsored segments can be pretty annoying, even if it's up to the creator how annoying they are. Either way, I just run SponsorBlock, so I can skip those segments with one click.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Those are the three choices most people will have.

LMAO

You forgot the simplest of them: Firefox, uBlock Origins, SponsorBlock. Works on desktop and Android.

[–] MucherBucher@feddit.de -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Homie missed the point. using ublock and sponsorblock is equal to petty theft. Disliking a company doesn't make it morally right to steal from them.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're not going to guilt trip me out of adblocking Google of all fucking companies lmao

[–] MucherBucher@feddit.de -3 points 10 months ago

No, I'm not here to defend Alphabet. I'm just saying it's equal to stealing groceries at Wallmart. They request payment, you deny. Just because it's so much easier to do on YouTube doesn't mean it's any more justifiable.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine acting like removing unwanted content from MY screen is theft. My device my rules honey

[–] MucherBucher@feddit.de -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh baby, you don't understand what you just said, do you?

Nobody forces you to watch ads. Close YouTube, don't look back, email content creators to have em send ad free video links directly to you.

Watching ads is your obligation as consumer, if you decide not to pay for their removal.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's not my obligation and I'm never going to stop because controlling what appears on my screen, is my legal right ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

If people decide to pay for something they have no legal obligation to because they got brainwashed, that only makes them suckers

[–] MucherBucher@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You are mixing two things. Nobody can just blast ads on your phone without your consent. But you did give consent by accessing YouTube.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I did not according to EU law :D

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean the browsers that Google is throttling Youtube on, if they're blocking ads? I use Firefox with SponsorBlock myself, but I'd say that most people are using either Chrome or Edge and would not switch to Firefox, despite of how much better it would be. Most people just like what they're used to.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man, you're all over this thread sticking up to Google. You should apply there. They just laid off 100 YouTube employees. At least you'd be paid to shill.

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck off lol. I'm not sticking up for Google/Alphabet, they're an untrustworthy company and as someone working in tech, I hate the trend of layoffs currently going on, all to make shareholders happy.

I'm sticking up for people actually paying for the services they use. Streaming videos costs a shitton of money (servers, bandwith, platform maintenance, etc.) and Youtube has lost money for literal YEARS, which they are trying to fix. If Youtube went under for being too unprofitable, most creators on the platform would be out of a job. As long as there's no proper competing platform, Youtube is the best we have.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then maybe YouTube deserves to die

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe. Got any alternatives?