Somehow paying for Netflix is fine but god forbid I want to watch a 10 hour loop of the DS9 intro without ads.

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    11 months ago

    Paying for premium is fine, but premium users letting Youtube off the hook for their corporate greed is annoying. If YT ran reasonable ads like they used to in the olden days I wouldn’t use an adblocker. Don’t even get me started on their garbage search, a multi billion dollar company can and should do better. Then of course there’s the fiasco of their demonetization system, and rules that apply to some but not others. Simply put they don’t deserve to be paid for premium, if their grinch heart grows and they decide to do better as a company I’d honestly pay for premium.

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      11 months ago

      Tbh, I almost caved and got premium, but I have a lot of the same issues with Youtube that you have.

      A big YouTuber was doxxed recently by another big YouTuber, and Youtube did nothing about it. If I was him, I would be going to court.

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        11 months ago

        YouTube is trash, and if a viable alternative were to exist then I would switch in a heartbeat.

        But I’m all about convenience, so until that alternative exists, if I have to give some money to YouTube to have that convenience, I’ll do it.

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      11 months ago

      Us premium users have no obligation to help non premiums.

      At the end of the day Youtube or Google offer no ads experience for us and we get it. Transaction is completed.