• Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 days ago

    Good joke, YouTube.

    Ah yes, but what about the violation to our time where we’ve had to sit through 30 second ~ 2 minute ads of over-dramatized ways for shitty companies to get us to buy shit we don’t want and subscribe to services we don’t need? What about those violations and those violations happen more frequently than us blocking your ads? The hell with you.

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          1 day ago

          Who cares. These of people are YouTube addicts. Just stop using it, if you find it so unbearable.

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            1 day ago

            Oh I totally agree with you, I was just making fun of the downvotes coming from hypocrites who don’t want to abandon their favorite megacorp but instead cry a river about ads.

            Now I hate ads like the next guy, but either I find a way to block them, or I move on.

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              1 day ago

              Same here. These people are literally unable to vote with their wallet, not even metaphorically.

    • Tja@programming.dev
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      2 days ago

      Well, then don’t go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:

      • creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch
      • disk space to store it
      • bandwidth to send it around the world
      • compute to transcode it and process it
      • real estate and security for the premises
      • power for the datacenter
      • ac to cool the servers
      • wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure
      • wages of devs for the app
      • yes, profits for the company

      Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don’t act like you are morally entitled to do it.