Based on Trumps defenders, it’s a legal gray area, so yes.

I feel it. I forgot what it was like. I feel… The Bern.

Aggressively.

$10 DLC.

No you’re right, we should take the side of the government who actively performs military drills off the coast of a mostly defenseless island of people to subjegate them. The side of a country who has countless times shown us they not only don’t respect our way of living but actively support our enemies like Russia. The side of a country that if given the option would propagandize us the same way they do their citizens. Heard of Tiananmen square?

I’d rather be exploited by billionaires for my work than lied to, manipulated by, exploited by, then murdered by my government in the streets.

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I don’t care if it’s Google, Amazon, or fucking Walmart. If the product makes sense as it is right now and the price is on par with other services, I’ll pay for it if it makes sense for me.

I’m not going to avoid something or complain about shit that hasn’t even happened yet. If you don’t like the corporations and want to avoid supporting them, fine, but I’m exhausted with people giving bullshit answers as to why xyz isn’t fair.

How much do they profit off YouTube again?

Oh wait - they don’t. They take losses from it. A business, meant for making money, is suffering a loss to provide goobers like you content and have the goobers making that content profit enough so they aren’t in poverty for choosing to make videos for a living.

You people really throw logic out the window when you talk about shit like this. You want corporations to make less money? Go fix the fucking tax laws not bitch about average membership fees like a fuckwit.

They provide a service not easily replicated, hence why there are no good alternatives. They operate on a loss because Alphabet/Google can afford it. They own the monopoly because they’re willing to lose money on it. You can swallow your pride and fuck off but it doesn’t matter. You don’t make an impact. They’ll still have the userbase and you leaving does nothing but lighten the server load from people who won’t pay anyway.

You aren’t entitled to free services at the expense of others. They don’t have to let you use their website without charging you. You not using the site without paying isn’t the attack you think it is, it’s the desired outcome.

The service was never fucking free you goober it always had ads. Since the moment it expanded beyond a couple dozen 240p videos, it had ads. You know what they did though? Tried to pay the people you watch so they could make a living giving you content. But yes throw a fucking tantrum that you have to pay the website so they can stay running and pay the people so they can earn that “regular people money” you ignorant fuckwit. YouTube still, to this day, doesn’t make a profit and still comes at an expense to Google/Alphabet.

You’ve been comfortable in that red wig and nose for way too long already.

Does it even pay the people you watch? No… wait… it just freeloads off YouTube by piping that content to their site.

… No. It’s $15 a month unless you sign up every single person in your family. It still boggles my mind how people have grown used to the idea of using services for free. The internet isn’t free. Everything costs money, even Lemmy. YouTube has server costs. Employee costs. And dare I say it, profit margins because they’re a business.

You need to pay for services you use. I’m exhausted with online entitlement that it all should be free.