I’m all about sailing the seven seas, yar har, but at some point the time spent trying to circumvent ads exceeds the $15. Support the people you watch. Hell, I pirate games and if I like it I’ll buy it later. There’s a difference between not getting taken advantage of by corporations and just straight screwing over people trying to make a living.
And there’s a difference between supporting creators and supporting a cash grab company screwing over everyone and everything around them.
Is there a difference? Sure. The problem is doing the former without the latter getting in the way. Small creator can’t make videos if YouTube dies. Can’t find new people to watch their videos. To support them. I think it’s way too easy for people for forget that these platforms facilitate an essential service that is being taken for granted. There is no meaningful alternative.
I’d still rather give directly to the creators than indirectly through Youtube. Youtube can change how much money those creators get, and I can… as well, I guess, but at least that’s an individual choice, rather than a choice made for me.
Yeah that’s alright, not what I’d do myself but it’s something. I personally get exhausted when so many people get entitled to thinking they should have the undisputed right to slink through every website, take all the content they want, and not pay in attention, data, or their wallet. Shit costs money and people either forget or don’t care. Even Lemmy, someone’s fronting the cost for this instance.
I can tolerate sponsored content, but the youtube ads feel like they are trying to lobotomize me or give me a seizure. I remember the time when google tried to fight obnoxious ads on the web but it seems they’ve made a complete u turn, not just on Youtubu but on Android too
And not to sound like a shill, it’s why I paid them to fuck off. The added benefit of the people I watch getting kickback was a nice bonus. I’d do the same on Pornhub if they started adblock blocking.
