selfreplicatingquinian said: $10/month for no ads and the ability to play videos in the background or with the screen off turned out to be totally worth it for me. You can even just subscribe to Google Music and get the YouTube sub free
hmm there’s the instinctive revulsion at paying for what used to be free, but honestly this makes so much economic sense; if you want to be catered to you need to be the customer, not the product.
arguably I should pay for youtube or stop using youtube, much as I stopped using Netflix when I judged the payment wasn’t worth it.
I’d love to pay youtube
Of course, youtube would love for me not to, on account of I’m in a country not on their list yet.
So I keep using ublock origins.
Problem: YouTube is owned by Google, who are ad scum. Paying for YouTube gives Google more resources to direct toward producing their primary product, advertisements.
Incentives though! What if the monthly fee disables other Google ads and also disables their tracking service; how much do they even make per user per month? Maybe this would be more profitable for them, then they could tell the advertisers to go to hell and not need to worry about the ever imminent collapse of the online advertising market.
Danegeld.
Not a good analogy. The Danes aren’t offering an actual service. YouTube, however, is an actual service on offer and costs money to run, like various other websites.
