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‘I want to cancel’: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthinkable (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Yup.

I think capitalism is shit but I'm still forced to participate in it. Until there is something better to use I'm stuck with YouTube.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Nobody is forcing you to consume content on the internet, this is a laughable defense. You aren't forced by society or capitalism to watch YouTube.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    You're absolutely right.

    However, if I can consume said content without giving money to companies who are going over and above to be anti-consumer? I'll 100% take advantage of that.

    If YouTube wants to go out of their way to make it harder for me to watch legally, I'll go out of my way to watch illegally. You think I pay for 17 different streaming services for TV shows me or my partner want to watch? Fuck all that we pay for IPTV.

    Pirates like me don't want to have to jump hoops to watch your shit. But all these streaming platforms, Youtube, Twitch, the greed has become so hard to ignore that it's impossible to rationalize paying them to fuck you anyway. Pay $18 a month for this service to watch this show, but this other show is on another service for another $16 a month. Fuck all that I'll just open up whichever pirating site I have saved and download the fucking show in a half hour and toss it on my external HDD and watch it anyway.

    I have no respect for companies that don't respect their consumers.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I can respect the honesty that you just want shit for free at least lol

    I can't stand people that try to pretend that they're taking a moral stand when they just don't want to pay people for the work they consume.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    There's Peertube, Vimeo, and others

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Okay. Let me know when the dozens of content creators I follow on YouTube migrate there.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    "Content creators" lol. I mean, I guess there could be, but YT stopped being decent about 10 years ago, maybe longer. I haven't used it but for an occasional video. Surprisingly, I haven't missed it. There's not much on YouTube I couldn't get elsewhere, with less ads, and to the point vs a 10 minute video intro plus sponsor plugs, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    What kind of content do you watch? Some of the stuff I enjoy watching I can definitely get my fix from elsewhere (educational, food/cooking/recipes, tech news); some of it is very person-specific so I would miss out on their specific views on things but I still would have other sources to turn to if I could disregard that (essays, reviews, comedy); and some of it is like 'well my choices are basically youtube or twitch' (let's plays/other video game content)

    (EDIT: Reviews not News. I hate watching most news tbh.)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I just kind of forego any content. I used to watch silly stuff like the Electroboom guy, Linux Tech tips A LONG time ago when it felt more personable and meaningful. My son watches carwow or something, doing car comparisons sort of how Top gear used to, but I'm not into it as I can't afford those nice cars lol.

    Tech review stuff gets under my skin bc it's so much promotion of sponsors, their channels, and they're always begging for likes and subscribes... 🤮 plus they're often biased. I know there's a large audience to cater to but I feel often times I'm more, product and feature aware than they are, but I'm also obsessed with technology, FOSS, self-hosting, etc.

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