• repungnant_canary@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Does YouTube pay their content creators properly? No, they have to rely on external partnerships. Does YouTube help their creators solve issues with greedy companies making copyright claims on not their content? No, they close channels because of such claims and strip creators of income they deserve. Does YouTube keep their platform secure to protect its creators? No, hackers managed to get access to the biggest channels on the platform despite YouTube being aware of the issues for months. Does YouTube at least use their knowledge from spying its users to stop bots posting comments? No, bot comments are all over the place. And I could go like that for ages…

        The fact is YouTube is a shitty platform and people use it because they have to not because they want to. Because they have a fucking monopoly! People are paying thousands of dollars directly to content creators through platforms like Patreon, because they like the content. But people are not willing to support financially the platform that openly don’t give a fuck about their users and creators (which are the only reason this platform exists) and care only about their shareholders. Because why would they pay to make the rich richer while content creators struggle to earn money for rent!

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        Google has been shamelessly destroying all their projects the last few years in a desperate fit to make money. They’ve weakened ad blockers on chrome, they’ve altered the search algorithm so random BS is mixed in with regular to drive towards sponsored content, their starting to setup browser level DRM and creating un skipable ads. None of this is for anything more than greed and desperation. They no longer see anything other than money as the end goal and don’t care if their selling a shittier product at a higher price than no one was ever even willing to pay for. F*ck google.

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          YT Premium costs less than $4 for me and I also get YT Music. It sure beats paying $4 for only a music service.

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              I’ll stop paying when it stops working. Also regional pricing. I pay around $3.9 for Premium + Music.

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          Because somehow paying $4 a month is unreasonable for a service that I use for 2-4 hours every day.

          Right.

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            why do I need to keep explaining this? This is not about 4 bucks, this is about a multinational company that has a monopoly and last year made a profit of 59 billion dollars, and not happy with that profit is trying to extort even more money from users from whom it already sells the data it collects.

            A company that does not care about the security and privacy of its own users and treats content creators and employees like garbage.

            And to make matters worse due to google’s own greed, if it had an acceptable amount and length for advertisements (and cared about the legitimacy and type of content distributed by these advertisers) no one would be forced to use ad blockers. And that’s just the part that concerns youtube, as the problems with google’s other products and actions go even deeper.

            But of course, that’s about 4 bucks.

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          And that’s how things die due to no revenue. Running YouTube is expensive af and the more people who used things like revanced, the worse things will become for everyone else.

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            1 year ago

            Maybe they shouldn’t operate in the first place if they cannot think of a sustainable business model without f*ing their users up.

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              Basically everything within capitalism fucks over someone that’s just business as usual 8n out society. Usually to a much worse degree, think the children who likely made your clothes for next to nothing. I’m all for tearing down the system, but there’s not a whole lot as an individual that I can do.

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              You’ll care as more and more people have to quit YouTube or make progressively more shit content to appease the algorithm. It also makes it harder and harder for new people to start on YouTube.

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        I support the sentiment, but today everything is a service that wants your money, this resource is finite. And when it comes to YouTube, it’s not even about whether you like it or not: YouTube is a monopolist.