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Even if they keep the screen black for 30 second to a minute, I'd still gladly wait in silence than be subjected to advertisements.
If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I'll just leave the platform. I have no loyalty to YouTube and I'll sooner dump the platform and move on to other video sites than deal with enshittification and ads.
Yep. Then it will be time to finally start exploring peertube or something...
But they offer an ad free plan that isn't expensive, and the service is really fast and reliable, and comes with YouTube music as well. Why pay for streaming sites that still give you ads like amazon or peacock, but won't pay for YouTube?
The way I see it, don't make your thing free for 20 years if you want people to pay for it. At this point, it's as natural and free as a summer's breeze in our minds.
I just dont trust them not to use the payment and account info to track me more for every other ad they serve.
They get nothing.
Well i hope you didn't send this message from an android phone or Windows 11.
I don't pay for streaming sites. 🏴☠️ And I definitely won't give YouTube any money. I've always been able to browse their videos without paying a cent. I'm not about to start now.
Besides, I don't like how everything has become subscription services nowadays. You used to be able to pay once and own a product. Now you need to pay monthly to have temporary access to a constantly changing library. No thanks, I'll only spend money on things I can own forever.
not OP but personally I watch maybe 2h of YT /month. Because I only watch one dude who posts about monthly, then the rest is just random links I'm clicking from a post or something. I donate to the guy periodically. The other links half of them are news clips or something that I could prob just get from their site.
The one-size model just doesn't fit my use case. I'd pay for a per-time-watched plan if it was reasonably priced but it doesn't even exist.
Honestly I could do without it entirely. Personally.