Somehow paying for Netflix is fine but god forbid I want to watch a 10 hour loop of the DS9 intro without ads.

  •  jet   ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) 
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    I think most people are angry with YouTube premium because it’s a service that doesn’t give you anything. It’s a service where they stop annoying you. But it doesn’t unlock anything new that you didn’t have before, doesn’t give you access to content or data you don’t have access to, it doesn’t improve the service. It just removes the annoyances they put there deliberately. So people are a little angry about it

    It’s a protection racket, for your attention and time.

    •  Misconduct   ( @Misconduct@startrek.website ) 
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      11 months ago

      The fact that they made it worse so they could lock what we had behind a paywall is what permanently killed YouTube for me. I will bend over backwards to make sure they never receive a penny at this point. They could have added or improved features but they just made everything shitty instead lol screw them.

    • It’s a protection racket, for your attention and time.

      It is, but it is only between the free and paid versions. I can’t expect a service to exist for my use without some form of compensation. I’d rather pay with money than time.

    •  aname   ( @lauha@lemmy.one ) 
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      911 months ago

      it doesn’t improve the service.

      Doesn’t it do exactly that? It removes the ads whoch makes it way better.

      But it doesn’t unlock anything new that you didn’t have before

      It does give you access to higher quality streaming though, offline play, background play, video queue, picture in picture and youtube music premium. Do you even know what you are talking about?

    •  lukini   ( @lukini@beehaw.org ) 
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      811 months ago

      You’d have a much stronger point if all the following were free: bandwidth, server farms, developers, support staff.

      Since they aren’t, something needs to pay for those. I’m paying to not see that something.

    •  dmtalon   ( @dmtalon@infosec.pub ) 
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      211 months ago

      There was some original content, there is offline play, ad removal, however they should allow premium to skip sponsor ads too if you ask me.

      I thought it was a decent deal for $15/mo for family of 3 using it for music and yt. $23 is pushing it.