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Watching ads is like going to the bathroom without washing your hands after. It's simply bad hygiene, and future generations will hopefully look back with disgust at how putrid our current society is for allowing our minds to be polluted for thousandths of a penny.
I don't even get thousandths of a penny for viewing ads - someone else does.
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Logging in means random videos I check from various corners of the internet starts shaping the recommendation algo. Many of these are extremely deep and vicious traps (eg my most recent one was misery porn). Youtube premium does not works for incognito mode. This requires careful, and manual curation of my "history" page. No thank you.
Wait...are you actually getting useful recommendations from the not-logged-in recommendation algorithm? Whenever I've use YouTube not logged in the recommendations have been pretty worthless.
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does anyone know of any services that do this?
Paid services that still show ads? Cable, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, etc.
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There is no theft when I use youtube because I was never going to click on ads in the first place. The value of me watching ads is absolutely zero. (From my point of view in fact, it's negative).
What value do you bring to YouTube, especially since YouTube does not make any money from you?
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Imagine valuing yourself and your money so little that you'd pay a company who is actively harassing you with unwanted attempts at manipulation to pretty please leave you alone and let you see the free content you want without interruption.
100% agree. Those people who care about that shouldn’t use YouTube or any Google services at all. It’s easy to degoogle. Kagi search is a good start.
People will leave Youtube once enough bullshit piles on. There is a point. The question is, will Google push it and trigger an exodus? I'm not sitting through ads to watch stuff. I'd rather not watch things at all than watch ads. Peer to peer networks are still around. Vimeo still exists. Pretty sure DailyMotion and friends also still exist. PeerTube and other stuff are making it easier for video communities to suppo…
I don't understand this viewpoint. There are plenty of us who find YouTube useful and willing to pay for the service. I'm not as sure as you are that an exodus will happen.
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I'd agree with that, although that doesn't make both activities equivalent either. Google is being increasingly obnoxious and user-hostile in an effort to get people to pay Google money to stop harassing them and wasting their time by delaying and interrupting the free content they requested with repeated attempts at manipulation, while the people who block ads are just trying to avoid Google's unwanted (and at times…
Google's bandwidth and storage of those bytes isn't free
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I don't understand this viewpoint. There are plenty of us who find YouTube useful and willing to pay for the service. I'm not as sure as you are that an exodus will happen.
The same kind of folks who refused to accept the reality of MP3 and punted Ogg Vorbis. Is it really worth $13.99 to die on - nope it is not.
what i’m reading from these comments: we will do anything, including leaving youtube, but for sure we will not be either watching ads or paying for content.