Memes

I don't pay anything. Just use newpipe/ublock/smarttube

Kinda makes sense tho. Either they earn money on you from ads or they make money from you because of subscription. Or you're like me and you still block the ads even though YouTube does everything it can to stop you.

I wouldn't really mind watching some ads before a video, but I don't wanna get constantly interrupted or have the ads track me everywhere. I tend to watch the in-video ads from creators tho, because most people I follow have relevant ads, funny ads, or ar the very least deserve some revenue.

You guys pay youtube?

Never given YouTube a dime and never will

Revanced on mobile uBlock on firefox

Every single youtube channel needs to start seeding torrents of their videos, and posting those links to other platforms (here, mastodon, etc).

Youtube / google could be defeated collectively if creators were to consistently do this, and interested people had the ability to help seed videos.

I'm gonna pay you $0 to fuck off (with ublock)

"Perpetrators offer a service that will not be put into effect, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket."

The very definition of racketeering.

They call it a double-sided economy.

I call it “let’s fuck everyone.”

We could just ban advertising.

That's basically google's main business. Their business is not in web search, video platform, mobile OS, email or AI, it's ad. People forget Google is an ad company, that uses any tool available to give you ad. If it's free and not open source, you are the product. Either to sell your attention and availability to companies through ads, or to use your data to do profiling, build a more vicious ad platform and sell your data on the side.

Why is it a random picture of Will Ferrell though? Why are recent memes like this?

Some of us pay ourselves to install an ad blocker and then we keep our money and we don't get any ads.

I've said this a few times in various places, but I'm really surprised we aren't allowed to bid for ad space for ourselves to not show an ad the way advertisers do for ads. Obviously a flat monthly rate is simpler, nobody is denying that, but just from a purely "free market" perspective (which shareholders love to say they want while using the government to crush opposition) why can't I pay slightly more than whatever small amount of money someone is paying to show me an ad to not see the ad?

Realistically I don't think we'll ever see that because it's a fairly complicated. I don't have any hard data, but I can't imagine that the majority of users using something like YouTube Premium are getting a "good deal." Sure, some folks probably watch all day every day and they get the better end of the deal, but I'd bet for a lot of folks YouTube makes more money off charging the subscription than they would showing the ads. Which is sort of an odd scenario we've gotten ourselves into (but amazing if you're a company that serves ads).

Storing and serving videos is expensive, they have to pay for it somehow. Either you pay directly or someone else pays for you (through an Ad). I don't see why this is inherently a problem.

I can see arguments on if the specifics are a problem with how they're going about it, but the fundamentals make sense.

Why the fuck am I looking at a picture of Will Ferrell and not Ricky?

The perfect crime.

Its much better to pay YouTube so the YouTubers get money based on what the audience wants, and not what the Advertisers want from Youtube.

What’s that have to do with Ricky Bobby?