goldman60 comments on ‘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

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[–] goldman60@lemmy.world 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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[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 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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[–] goldman60@lemmy.world 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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