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Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by krige »

ads, on paid, youtube, premium, lite, what a fantastic word construct, a veritable babel of corporate policies we suffer. If we could only shove "AI generated" in front of "ads", it would be the supreme capture of the current zeitgeist. Big tech in a nutshell, if you will.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by globular-toast »

Cue shocked Pikachu...

Look, people are greedy. YouTube evidently works and is enormously profitable. As is the rest of the copyright industry. It didn't disappear once people had the power to make their own copies. If anything the industry has become more profitable and more powerful. None of this is about survival, it's about greed. If you give people the power to take more they will take it, every single time. They might not take it at first, but they will take it eventually. It's really that simple. Stories like this are boring. We know it's coming, and will keep coming. Until we build our communities in such a way that these enormous power imbalances can't happen then there will be stories like this every day.

If you want it to stop then we need AGPL software and a decentralised internet. We are in a local optimum so it will seem worse at first before it gets better.

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