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I'll quit watching YouTube before I give it my ID
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Lol "paying for youtube"
nothing wrong with that.
you support the people you watch without having to see ads. also, comes with YT music.
it's a pretty good deal
But then you end up giving Google even more information compared to using it logged out.
yeah, that is definitely a trade-off
It also monetarily feed into the youtube network effect of there being no other viable options. Maybe youtube becoming completely unprofitable for creators is a necessary evil so there becomes less and less incentive to put content there.
I mean yeah if everyone would coordinate. We're such a small minority on here it doesn't really do anything on its own. If we got the creators themselves onboard....
Look into browser Finger printing. The logged out parts does not do much nowadays.
Yeah, but having a Google account, tying payment to it, and having viewing history all tied to it is even worse. There's a reason Microsoft wants people to use an account on their OS is tying stuff like extended support to it because a dedicated profile is still more reliable and accurate than trying to rely solely on finger printing.
One is so good you don't even need to try to finger print because you already did all the work for them logging in.
I agree. All I am saying that in the limit where we all use services that respect privacy and stay away from big tech, we still have a major issue that we currently don't have a solution for and is very hard to avoid or eliminate completely.
Yeah, but taking approach of its all pointless just give in isn't good either.
Not paying and not using an account is ways to reduce how much is given to those companies.
Best way to support creators is the same way as with bands - buy their merch!
And the paying user average revenue for creators is higher than ad users. At least it was when I last looked.
Tipping your creators 5€/month or smth is even better. No google, Amazon in between, no charges..
yeah except if I watch a random video from somebody they wouldn't get any money with this method.
I can't afford to give everyone 5€ per month
So I’d be paying roughly $500/m + all of the random videos I watch wouldn’t see any of that.
Edit: This reminded me that I can check how much I use it. I’ve been a YT Prem member since 2019.
You guys pay for that ? No ads here on you tube
I mean, people pay for Netflix or Amazon or whatever, why is YouTube different? It's my primary video platform and I watch more than 50 hours a week (I'm low balling that number to hell as well).
While paying is more convenient for me than breaking their shit, I'll pay. Also means creators actually get paid for my views as well
Lol do you pay for youtube?
You know you're gonna have to go elbow deep to hand them that flashlight. . ?