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Like many other business they offer an ad funded service and a paid service. I understand this is Lemmy, and people love getting things for free. But if you don't like ads, have you thought about paying for the service?
Just because they offer a paid service doesn't mean it's reasonable for me to pay for it. For example: if the cost was $1000 a month it would not be reasonable to respond with "why don't you pay for it?" Because that's not a reasonable price.
If a person doesn't find the price reasonable then it is reasonable for them not to pay.
Watching ads is also a cost. It costs time. Each person has a threshold of how many ads they are willing to watch before the cost is too high, at which point it is reasonable for them to no longer pay that cost.
YouTube is constantly increasing the ad time trying to find that point just before people get sick of it.
I remind you that the person you originally replied to said they were done watching YouTube. Not that they were insisting on getting it for free. They find the ad cost too high, and the paid service cost too high, so they will not use the service. That is a perfectly reasonable response and a response of "why don't you pay for it" is not helpful, irrelevant, and shows you aren't listening to what is being said.
For the record: If I believed there was even a chance that my watching YouTube with an ad blocker caused the tiniest noticeable amount of loss to YouTube's finances, I would set up a tab streaming YouTube 24 hours a day on mute. So no, I also will not be paying them for premium either.
I agree with all your points, not using the service is absolutely an option. I suggested paying for premium because that was the option that made the most sense to me. I hate ads and love YouTube. For me, the value I get from a subscription is much higher than other services I pay for. I'm subscribed to probably 500 YouTube channels and probably watch between 50-100 hours of content per month.
What's the Lemmy equivalent of /r/hailcorporate?
That's funny, but I love content created by individuals and small teams, especially the maker/engineering channels. I'll take that over corporate produced media any day, even if it means paying a corporation to serve that content to me.
They also have one of the best business models for creators, meaning people producing content can do it full time and make a good living off of it, instead of doing it as a charity and producing mediocre quality videos.
If that's true I'd hate to see the worst models. It's a great system until Youtube completely changes their recommendation/discovery algorithm and kills your channel, or demonetizes half of it because there's a content rule change, or you get a couple content or copyright strikes filed by a troll and your whole channel and years of your life is suddenly shut down because you can't get a human to verify anything without a lawyer. If you're Mr. Beast or Pewdiepie, Youtube is good for you. If you're a normal creator, it's an absolute nightmare of constant fear about what dystopian changes will be forced on you overnight.
They had a service I paid for. I paid for youtube without ads. Just that. And then they changed prices and made me pay for something that I did not need, YouTube Music. So I canceled.
They had me as a subscriber, they just wanted more money and lost me.
And I block ads. Not specifically for youtube, but for all sites and apps that I can. I use Blockada and most days the number of blocked tracking cookies goes over 1000. Laat 24 hours it is 3426 trackers blocked. Is it really necessary that I am being tracked that much?
I don't think so, and I am not even talking about malware, or crypto ming scripts that will be loaded as ads. Most ads are not checked properly so I have no idea what malicious bullshit I can get on my systems without even asking for it.
If I find something that I use a lot and adds value, I will donate some money. For example, I support some creators on Patreon.
And ads always do their best to be loud and intrusive. And if I have a guest at my house that is loud and intrusive, they don't get invited back. The same with ads.
Remember when ads were just a small rectangle on youtube? You clicked it away and that is it? That was the way. Serve ads in a normal, non intrusive way and I can handle them just fine.