Whelp, here we go again

  • JillyB@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Hot take: this sucks, but YouTube premium is legit. I wish more platforms offered a paid, ad-free way to interact. I don’t feel like figuring out a way around ads but I’m not about to start watching them. So I pay a few bucks a month.

    • TehPers@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I’d be more willing to pay if it wasn’t $10/mo (annual cost) for a bunch of stuff I don’t care about. If they had a cheaper option that was just ad-free (maybe $5/mo?), I’d be down for that.

      I also like what Kagi does with their duo plan for 2 users. Some kind of duo plan for YT premium would be nice as well, since I (and many others, I’m sure) don’t have a family of 6 people.

    • kukkurovaca@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I don’t have any philosophical objection for paying to use a platform I enjoy, but in the case of youtube, they have been so deliberately detrimental to society in terms of platforming fascists that I feel bad about the prospect of paying them, even if much of the money is going to creators I do like who I’m actually watching

    • popshabang@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I don’t mind paying for services I use to avoid my data being the payment (like Kagi or Protonmail).

      But I don’t like the idea of paying Google AND having my data farmed.

    • Scrumpf_Dabogy@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Same. I hate google, but YouTube pays content creators better than any other platform. And I am 100% on board with any service where I pay a monthly cost instead of being inundated with ads.

    • shufflerofrocks@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      It’s simply a more honest model - you get content, they get money.

      I would love to be able to pay for an ad-free experience for the various websites and services that I browse and use in a straightforward way instead of being leeched for ad-revenue

      • anon@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t doubt paying a hundred per month to have an ad-free life.

        no ads on tv or sports, no billboards, no ads on buses. it would be awesome

      • justgohomealready@lemmy.pt
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        1 year ago

        The thing is that first you pay in order to avoid ads, but ads will start creeping in on the paid version in no time. Some day you’ll find yourself paying and still seeing as many ads as they decide to push. The same has been done in other platforms. Cable TV didn’t have ads when I was a kid, “because it was paid”.

    • Linnce@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Also the student version is so cheap and there is so much more content than anything really. YouTube music is awesome too.