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Oh no youtube (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by EqMinMax@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] SAF77@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've found that I watch YouTube more often than Netflix. So I said "fuck it" and subscribed.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yes I'm tempted to too. What bothers me is that Youtube is literally the same company that runs the monopoly spyware OS in half the world's pockets. That is just so unrelated to its mission, so screwed up. If Youtube were a separate media company competing on a level playing field with a bunch of media-company peers, i.e. if it were Netflix, things would be so much healthier and I would be much more inclined to give it money.

The case for forcing Google to divest itself of Youtube is overwhelming.

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean I'm somebody who used to ad block for a long time and then subscribed to premium for the music.

I get their point of view given the costs but it still really sucks. As someone who definitely couldn't have justified the cost of a different point in life this would have drastically reduced the quality on YouTube.

That's their right but I don't have to be happy about it