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Subscribing to YT premium is also an evil act
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YT premium is a good value for me and my family. Guess I'm evil.
Literally Satan.
Same. I watch more YouTube than probably any other streaming service. Plus I got the family plan and I sell the extra seats to my extended family and friends. Works out to be pretty cheap in the end.
I do the same for Spotify, Disney plus. Formally Netflix but they cut down on password sharing
I wish I could be as pleased with it. I don't want to pay for a service and have that service still collect data on me to push ads elsewhere.
Unfortunately that's everything. Netflix, buying groceries with a credit card, even driving your new car.
It doesn't have to be this way. Somewhere in the past something went wrong.
Mate, you can't use basically anything today then. Your car probably collects data on you. I'm not saying I love it, but life's too short for me to cut everything trying to collect my data out of my life. Gotta pick and choose my battles.
If you block ads everywhere else then it doesn’t really matter. Pi.hole, AdGuard, proton vpn, Firefox will all block ads for you on pretty much every other site on the planet.
My 3 kids all use iPhone and we have a bunch of chrome casts. The only practical way to avoid the ads in YTP.
YouTube Poop?
Your tight pants
Newpipe
I don't mind paying for good services, personally.
Yeah until it gets shot by A/B testing again lol. I love newpipe, but for somebody with a family it's hard to justify, especially bc the non-techies of the fam are gonna want something that 'just works'.
I do use an adblocker, and I'll keep spending my money how I please, thanks.
You subscribe to every single channel you watch on Patreon? That’s remarkable!
Like it or not the platform is full of people trying to make a living independently producing content. Most of them are not making very much money. Watching with an adblocker means they aren’t earning any revenue, which is unsustainable. Watching with a Premium subscription means I don’t see ads and they get more revenue (even more so than ad-supported views).
Those people aren’t massive corporations. They’re independent creators. And generally speaking the content I watch on YouTube is content I want to support.
I’m not trying to say it’s like, inherently ethically wrong to watch YouTube without ads or Premium. But it certainly isn’t ethically superior.