• krisevol@lemmus.org
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    7 hours ago

    But they offer an ad free plan that isn’t expensive, and the service is really fast and reliable, and comes with YouTube music as well. Why pay for streaming sites that still give you ads like amazon or peacock, but won’t pay for YouTube?

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      1 hour ago

      I used to pay for YT.

      I quit because they were very anti-creator and i did not support the changes they were making.

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      2 hours ago

      The way I see it, don’t make your thing free for 20 years if you want people to pay for it. At this point, it’s as natural and free as a summer’s breeze in our minds.

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      5 hours ago

      I just dont trust them not to use the payment and account info to track me more for every other ad they serve.

      They get nothing.

      • krisevol@lemmus.org
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        5 hours ago

        Well i hope you didn’t send this message from an android phone or Windows 11.

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t pay for streaming sites. 🏴‍☠️ And I definitely won’t give YouTube any money. I’ve always been able to browse their videos without paying a cent. I’m not about to start now.

      Besides, I don’t like how everything has become subscription services nowadays. You used to be able to pay once and own a product. Now you need to pay monthly to have temporary access to a constantly changing library. No thanks, I’ll only spend money on things I can own forever.

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      5 hours ago

      not OP but personally I watch maybe 2h of YT /month. Because I only watch one dude who posts about monthly, then the rest is just random links I’m clicking from a post or something. I donate to the guy periodically. The other links half of them are news clips or something that I could prob just get from their site.

      The one-size model just doesn’t fit my use case. I’d pay for a per-time-watched plan if it was reasonably priced but it doesn’t even exist.

      Honestly I could do without it entirely. Personally.