Unpopular Opinion
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How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesnβt provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Prepping the market for future fuckery is not a virtue, and this smacks of apologist rhetoric.
This in no way is grounds for a society to handwave increasingly unethical, exploitive tactics.
Operational costs? That's the crux of this apology for poor li'l YT just trying to make it in the big scary world? FFS. I'm sure exec profits have nothing to do with their business model. π€¦π½ββοΈ
The logical fallacies continue...
A plea to the plebs?
Ah, there's the "but", of course...
Gas & groceries are goods, a streaming platform is not. More accurately, you'd have to rephrase it to something like "from Chevron & Kroger...", but therein lies the rub, citizen.
It's not about the product that "has changed your life", it's the simple fact that the corporation behind the platform is using you β and you're paying them to be their fucking product. π€¦π½ββοΈ
So what should we do? Avoid all monetized information sources? I don't pay for YT except with my time until I can skip an ad. But if you stop and think no information source is free. Libraries - over inflated taxes on an already middle to lower class that can't afford the luxury tax breaks the ultra rich can buy, the internet - if it's a free site then it's selling your data skimmed from accessing the page. So what should we be supporting? Where should we be sharing and consuming knowledge in a 100% no cost to the user atmosphere?