• rwhitisissle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s an end of an era. I’ve been on reddit for over a decade, and on youtube for even longer. Crazy to think I might be giving up both of those services within a few months of each other. Feels like the internet is dying. Oh well. Maybe I’ll go back to reading a shitload.

    • Krachsterben@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same I’ve been on YouTube since at least 2006 so almost 18 years 😭 (I’m turning 30 soon for reference) That’s a long ass time to be using any service. Times have changed

  • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t turned off ad-blocking in 20 years. That’s because I “don’t allow” companies to use my home and my computer as their place of business.

    • SitD@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      i actually blindly accepted Google ads in early 2k because they were text only and an imitation of ads in newspapers. whenever they made animated banners i lost my shit and never allowed it again

    • Nath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is not what is happening. Google offers you a tier with advertising for free. If you’d prefer to not have the ads, you can pay a small fee, get no ads and also steam every song ever. I truly don’t see the controversy.

      It’s literally cheaper than a beer for a full month of this service, but people would rather spend hours of their time tinkering with settings instead. Personally, I don’t have that kind of time.

      • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        You are missing my point. Advertisment became an elaborate manipulation, targeted with questionably obtained personal information.

        And for me personally the content YouTube is selling is not worth the money they are asking. I just do something else.

      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Capitalism is driven by the idea of a free market, where competition and the law of supply and demand determine prices, production, and distribution. Manipulating you to buy stuff you don’t need is the result of human greed, not capitalism. That’s such a monothink way of seeing the world.

        Imagine living in a small town in the middle ages. You’re growing corn, your neighbour has a chicken farm, then there’s also a bakery, blacksmith etc. Say you now need nails. Where do you go? To the blacksmith obviously. Does he just give them to you? No, he wants something in return. Well you offer corn because that’s what you have plenty of but what if he doesn’t want corn but wants eggs instead? Well you can go to your neighbour and ask if he would like to trade some eggs for corn which you could then further trade for nails. Maybe that works, maybe it doesn’t, but that’s still a bit of an hassle. That’s why people came up with money. You can just sell your corn, get cash, buy those nails with said cash and the blacksmith can then go buy eggs with that. That’s capitalism.

          • TheFonz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            What are you talking about? Capitalism is inherently reliant on free markets. Otherwise what you have is a planned economy. You know, the opposite of capitalism?

            • emberwit@feddit.deEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Capitalism is reliant on a free market. That does not make it the same nor does that mean that a free market is reliant on capitalism. The concept described above is a free market, not capitalism.

    • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I normally complain about the same thing being reported over and over. But this one event is actually affecting a lot of people who use the fediverse.

      • smolyeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It’s not really a problem though, least not one worth being constantly all over my feed. the solution is in the picture. Allow YT ads or pay , it’s really not the hard.

        • DerEineDa@feddit.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          “but but but, I wanna consume stuff for free!! And my mommy won’t buy me YouTube premium!”

          – people in this thread

  • sugartits@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ll look forward to reading this yet again next week, alongside all the entitlement in the comments section that seem to think running YouTube is free and recommending trash alternatives which have less than 1% of YouTube’s content and don’t even work.

    See you next week!

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The childish, whiny entitlement around here is stunning. Don’t like it? OK. Don’t fucking use it.

      • DerEineDa@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I believe I know where the entitlement is coming from: Most people here are literal children who never worked or paid for anything in their life. The mental gymnastics going in here to justify consuming a commercial service for free is staggering.

        I switched from reddit to lemmy to avoid the tiktok crowd that invaded reddit over the last few years, but it looks like this place has already gone to shit, too.