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Because Google sucks as a company, that is the only reason. By paying for a family plan, it would still mean I would give money to a company I dislike.
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No, Google will keep fucking you over and destroying the Internet, whether you pay or not. Not to mention the fact that what they pay out to creators is absolutely pathetic. Go find their Patreon, their Ko-fi, hell their paypal, anything but giving Google 13 bucks. Adblocking Google is morally right.
Stop using Google if you want to promote alternatives. Otherwise you're just rationalising freeloader behaviour.
Ads are emphatically not a valid monetization tactic. Holding up a corner store at gunpoint is unethical; getting up to go to the bathroom during a commercial break is not. There has never, ever, ever, ever been any moral or ethical imperative to view ads, in any context. By asserting otherwise you're simply being dishonest.
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#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, Google will keep fucking you over and destroying the Internet, whether you pay or not. Not to mention the fact that what they pay out to creators is absolutely pathetic. Go find their Patreon, their Ko-fi, hell their paypal, anything but giving Google 13 bucks. Adblocking Google is morally right.
Wouldn't be not using Google at all the morally right choice ?
The morally right choice would be for the government to use antitrust regulation to break Google up into ten companies, and yet here we are.
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If you continue to give Google money you'll continue to get things like AMP, Manifest V3, Web "Integrity", and whatever else they think up to track you across the web. They're an ad company. They pay the creators per impression even if you block the ads. Blocking ads harms Google, not the content producers.
> They pay the creators per impression even if you block the ads. this is false. if they can’t show the ad they won’t pay the content creator.
Fortunately I bypass Google entirely and find ways of paying good creators, which ends up with more in their pocket and less in the pocket of one of the shittiest companies on earth.
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Because I already support my favorite creators in other ways. Because I'll still see ads when I use other devices. Because videos have extra ads in the form of sponsor segments. Because ads are a parasite on society. Because their lying and psychological manipulation should be illegal. Because most of this tracking and privacy invasion mania is the ad industry's fault. If there's a new product useful for me that I sh…
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Part of the objection to ads is the tracking. If you subscribe to YouTube premium you’re making yourself even more identifiable. You end up seeing more creepy ads elsewhere on the web using your viewing history to target you. Versus an adblocker which will help hide you from Google everywhere.
What I find very unfair, is that I am paying for YouTube Premium, whose promise is "No ads",
but the "poor content creators" are injecting ads that are directly embedded inside the stream.
Like "Linus Tech Tips".
I think YouTube should force streamers to tag the timecode of their in-stream ads, and auto-skip them for Premium users.
It's like if you play a game and you purchase the In-App upgrade to remove the ads, and at the end there are still ads.
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And if you believe Google is not storing that information anyway I’ve got a beautiful bridge for sale. If you don’t use an account you can create a fresh container every once in a while and start the game anew and you can choose to not associate it all with your identity.
If you're right, you can easily earn big amount of money by filing a GDPR complaint or suing Google for lying about privacy.
If my country either took privacy seriously or took corporate malfeasance seriously, then Google wouldn't exist in the first place. Here's to hoping, though.
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because I already support my favorite creators in other ways. Because I'll still see ads when I use other devices. Because videos have extra ads in the form of sponsor segments. Because ads are a parasite on society. Because their lying and psychological manipulation should be illegal. Because most of this tracking and privacy invasion mania is the ad industry's fault. If there's a new product useful for me that I sh…
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That's a bit like saying that both parties have done bad things so they're equally evil. There's layers to this thing
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I stopped paying for YT premium and figured out how to work ReVanced becuase YT premium doesn't actually block the minute-plus ads that creators put in their videos to ensure they actually get paid when YT stiffs them and ReVanced/Sponsorblock does.
This is a very annoying problem, it's infuriating, you pay 10 USD20 USD/mo, and the ads are not even removed.
I hope Google is going to wake up on this.
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#310Cool but I’ll just keep paying for YouTube premium since it provides me incredible value
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