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Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy! (www.youtube.com)

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[–] Deway@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not everything should be for profit. I 'member the good old days when people made poorly designed website to share their passion and help others. I 'member the good old days when people developed freewares, even proprietary softwares, just for the fun of it.

[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, but it's also a fact that many of the YouTubers whose videos I deeply enjoy wouldn't be able to make them if it didn't make them any money

[–] JTheFox@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which is why I would rather go with spending my money on YouTubers via things like Patreon, Kofi, GitHub Sponsers or even just get some merch. I would much rather go that route than spend money on YouTube to just not have ads. Yes, it’s a subscription, but at least from one of the creators that I watch, even just 1 dollar a month is much more money than what they get from ad revenue from a single person

[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sure, I have nothing against that. I, however, still think that whatever platform hosts their videos deserves some compensation, right? So that's going to be either subscribtion, ads or donations.

[–] JTheFox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

You make a very good point there. I’d probably be more inclined to allow ads on YouTube if they weren’t so intrusive to my privacy and weren’t trying to push scams or overly sexualized mobile games every 4 seconds. (Although I’m not sure if it’s still that bad, I completely uninstalled the YouTube app after it got that bad and exclusively use FreeTube now).

The YouTube premium subscription also seems like quite a bit. $13.99 for that and YouTube music, I don’t want YouTube music, I just want no ads.