• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And as a service provider, they can choose to degrade your experience. It goes both ways.

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      1 year ago

      Except they want to send you videos. The power is with you, the viewer. Without you, advertisers will have no reason for buying ads. Google can’t collect your data either. Realise that you have this power. Youtube is not like electricity or clean water. We can live without it if push comes to the shove.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair, what they want is to make money off of you, be it through metadata or through advertising. It’s just that sending you videos happens to be the model which they use to get the metadata or advertising income.

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          If they wanted to make money off of me then they should have kept the Pixel Pass as a thing so I’d have a reason to have YT premium

          Or make YT premium worth it

          But nah, they’d rather ruin the product I was paying for, so now they get nothing. At least then I’m not paying for it to get worse