Lemmy users when I mention I pay for Youtube Premium - eviltoast

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

  • K3zi4@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can do all of those things without premium if you have the right apps.

    But besides that, absolutely not. I remember when YouTube was free with no ads, I remember when the adverts first started appearing, and that’s when it became obvious that they were trying to annoy you into a pay model. It took a little longer than expected, but sure enough, they ramped up the ads until “YOUTUBE PREMIUM! PAY FOR NO ADVERTS!”

    Fuck that, I had no adverts before and they took that away. But the worst part is that they harvest my private data and make money from me already. As far as I’m concerned, that’s my subscription to their shit, in their perverse data selling.

    No fucking way I’m going to also pay them for the privilege to have my private data sold.

    • UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      So… you dont like the service… just dont use it at all anymore. Then they cant track your data as well.