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It’s still the highest value streaming service out there and worth even more than that. Atleast for me it is. I still wont pay for as long as adblocker works but when they inevitably prevent me from using it, I’ll subscribe. I have zero moral arguments for why I should be getting this all for free. YouTube essentially is the internet for me.

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So much content on YouTube are just commercials. Makeup tutorial? Infomercial for makeup. Game streaming? Commercial to buy said game. Painting lessons? You guessed it: commercials for art supplies and specific brands. Very, very little content isn’t sponsored and is the creator just shitposting.

Now, I happen to like some of these commercials that are also tutorials, product reviews, etc. but I sure as shit am not paying YouTube for the privilege.

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No good reason to support a monopoly. Sure, I know we can’t help some monopolies (grocery stores, internet service, etc.), but this is an entertainment thing.

There are unlimited ways to be entertained nowadays and YouTube is not a necessity. Let’s see how well YouTube gets by if we all stop watching for fun, and instead only watch when we have to, such as when we’re trying to learn how to fix a car the one time a year we need it.

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There was 0% chance of me paying for it before, and it’s still 0 now. A service is supposed to offer you goods in return for the money. With this service, all i get for paying them increasing obnoxious amounts is a big fuck you.

Google really just forgot that without the people on their platform, YT is worthless

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Five bucks a month, no ads, I’d do it.

This would be in an alternate universe where it stayed “no ads” and didn’t jump to $35/day two weeks after I sign up.

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If they threw in access to everything (videos, music, TV and movies,) I’d pay $15. Until then, no.

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I’d pay for youtube if I wouldn’t also be exposed to tracking, however I much prefer supporting creators directly. IMO the platform should be paid-only and have a revenue-share system akin to Nebula. Fuck ads.

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I wish more creators were on nebula. I would like to support them on patron but $5+ a month per channel adds up really quickly.

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Piracy needs to (and probably will)intervene.

Not until the large channels lose views because people are torrenting the content will anything change.

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I don’t think there is such a thing as YouTube doesn’t use any DRM. All videos are publicly available on a public facing service available to all

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the EULA for YouTube says they own all videos uploaded to their site. watching through something like Piped is a soft (and important) form of piracy

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You aren’t agreeing the the EULA

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They must make a fortune on premium users compared to a regular user, I don’t believe their adverts pays them enough to get them over 10$ a month for a single person…

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Wait, it is torrenting YouTube stuff a thing now?

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Invidious or piped

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Oh, I didn’t know, thought those were a fronted connecting to an API or something.

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I don’t know if it is, but you can always just use yt-dlp or something similar.

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Fortunately their US subscription is so high already they couldn’t possibly raise it any time soon.

…right?

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YouTube Headquarters: ^^^^Coming ^^^^Soon

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