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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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The reason I don't bring them revenue is because they continue to make the experience worse. Paying isn't going to make that stop, it's just going to temporarily shift the bar a little; the bar is however still moving towards a shittier experience for all.
Why would I look at this and go "Yes, I'll pay!" There are a lot of services I would genuinely pay for if I didn't have an impending dread that the service is just about to get worse again regardless of if I pay or not. It's not like paying is a magic bullet, either, it comes with a ton of different issues like privacy. They still sell your soul to advertisers if you pay them.
Ultimately, they have no obligation to provide you something of value for free, and given that you do apparently use YouTube, they are objectively providing you something of value. They're completely within their rights to not do that.
I'll gloss over that you either missed my point or ignored it; I don't use YouTube because it's too shit, actually.
I don't pay for any Google services, not that I'm using any with any consistency anymore, for the same reason that I don't use them anymore. Google cannot be trusted to provide a good service, paying costumer or not. If you punish me for using the free product, why would I ever trust you? Steam doesn't slap me across the face at every chance it gets when I don't spend money on their store for a long period of time, yet I have no issue paying for the games I do want to play despite piracy being completely risk-free by comparison.
That goes both ways. I can stop providing youtube with free content.
If you aren't getting paid for your content, they'd probably be glad to not have to host it anymore. Anyone with content where it's worth them hosting it is getting paid.