Great so they want to freeload off the laying users and content producers. The serving and production of this content has real costs.
This does not make the Internet a better place. Paying for stuff you like does though.
This does not make the Internet a better place. Paying for stuff you like does though.
great!
make it, put it on your website (using owncast for example) and I'll pay.
I won't pay YouTube though, sorry not sorry.
Does that also not meet your stipulations as to where and how you are willing to pay for a product you are consuming?
because it's not YouTube.
I do not want the platform to succeed, because it's killing the competition and it's also killing the creators.
For clarity, I just added the quiet part.
I won't pay YouTube and I won't support in other forms that will let creators keep posting content on YouTube.
I'm voting with my money, I don't want YouTube to succeed as a platform, unless it becomes more open about their algorithms and their suggestions. most of my creator friends saw their views diminish two folds for no apparent reason, their video have been demonetized after years being there, because some user improperly signaled them, maybe a competitor that wanted to harm their reputation or maybe just some troll, but there was no easy way to put them back, because YouTube has no support.
Should I really pay for that?
No, thanks!
Easy as that.
It's like paying the mall because the comic book shop I like is inside the mall, so that the mall can finance and advertise all the things I hate in life, while also killing the exposure of the comic book shop.
You won't guilt trip me with your misguided morals.
Fair enough, but the grandparent's point was specifically about circumventing the ads, no? At least that was what I was addressing.
> It's like paying the mall because the comic book shop I like is inside the mall, so that the mall can finance and advertise all the things I hate in life, while also killing the exposure of the comic book shop.
But you're fine with some percentage of whatever you spend in that store going back to the mall in form of rent? Seems like an accounting detail to me.
not my problem, that's for renters to handle.
I don't care if they pay for it or not, I simply care to buy my comics.
But if the mall starts asking me for a subscription just to enter the mall, I'm going somewhere else.