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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

It's funny to me that people have such a problem with YouTube Premium. 

Just means you don’t see or agree with their point of view. 

YouTube Premium is about as close as it gets to the platonic ideal of a video subscription service. It completely banishes any ads you'd get without paying

I don’t understand what you mean here (could be because English isn’t my native language). For YouTube premium, you still need to pay. So how does it banishes ads without paying? 

Anyway, you still get in-video sponsors which doesn’t get automatically skipped by YouTube’s “premium”. A lot of people (included myself) find premium expensive for what it is. I, personally, don’t need the whole package for €15-20/monthly. It could’ve been like €5/monthly to remove ads. 

Sure one could use advantage of currencies but ain’t worth it when there’s uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock for Firefox, SmartTube for TV, uYou+ for iOS and ReVanced for Android. 

If showing ads is unacceptable, and paying to not see ads is unacceptable, then what's the alternative? 

It is not that’s “unacceptable”, it is the price and ‘value’ you get out of it. 

People have to make a living, and servers don't run on magic. 

Google/ YouTube (whatever) as a company are immensely rich. Toning down the price or change their tactics won’t hurt them so much. But of course they won’t, I would not either because eventually there are people who will gladly pay the €15/monthly. So why change?