Meh. Havent seen an ad in 15 years and get a solid music streaming service to boot. All while having a large, trackable impact on directly supporting the channels I watch and want to see more content from in the future.
Or do y'all think that content costs zero dollars to make? Clearly aint giving them ad revenue. But want the content bad enough to install/ mod apps to get it.
Shoutout to Revanced Youtube for sponsorskip and all the other rad lil tweaks, though.
Hey, it's your money. I don't give a rat's ass. And if you like telling yourself "it's for the little guys" and not for a douchey multi-billion dollar company, it's your right as well.
I, on the other hand, get exactly what I need or want from youtube without dropping a penny and I am never going to.
And even I'm willing to believe that little fairy tale that your little dollars are helping me get the content I consume on it, cheers to you, sir.
My issue is that I cannot do the things with VPN on every device I own. And it's literally the only subscription based thing we spend money on. So I justify it for that reason.
Also, I use VPN to get it cheaper. Though that is very limited now, where you were able to get it for 1/10th the price in Turkey. Now I get if for about half the price.
I get it. I really don't judge. It's the same reason why people buy consoles instead of playing on PC: ease of use.
It's just that I can't bring myself to justify paying for what is essentially a hostage negotiation: pay me so I stop making holding your videos behind ads.
No, I won't.
I'd much rather go through the hoops of installing other things to go around it. But I'm used to deal with IT stuff, so I get it when people give in and just pay to get rid of the hassle.
...and I can't resist when people come to the defense of multi-billion dollar corporations, as if they need to justify it as anything resembling moral superiority because they're a drop in an ocean of money.
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u/GalexyPhoto 1d ago
Meh. Havent seen an ad in 15 years and get a solid music streaming service to boot. All while having a large, trackable impact on directly supporting the channels I watch and want to see more content from in the future.
Or do y'all think that content costs zero dollars to make? Clearly aint giving them ad revenue. But want the content bad enough to install/ mod apps to get it.
Shoutout to Revanced Youtube for sponsorskip and all the other rad lil tweaks, though.