Technology
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So you want to use YouTube to stream videos, but don’t want to pay or watch ads?
You just want people to give you shit for free?
On one hand, I think that by now it is by far a public service, in private hands.
On the other hand, yes you do already pay by providing them information on your interests and other personal matters.
Not OP, but heck yeah free stuff! Special thanks to the people providing us Lemmy for free :)
Yay free stuff for sure, but what happens when no one is paying for something?
How did Google manage to buy YouTube, and then make YouTube the video monopoly it currently is ? One of the pillars of that foundation is open source software used by Google, for free. Some of that open source software maintained for a long time by unpaid and sometimes burned out software developers. All the YT video watchers commenting here in this post wanting to pay content creators and wanting content creators live off that : Google is run by a few laughing billionaires who probably care most about shareholders and being able to make more money by exploiting ads on the billions of hooked end users. Besides paying YT and content creators consider supporting small scale open source projects as well. Help out wherever and whenever you can with open source software. Take back your digital sovereignty. Big tech is not your friend. Open source empowers and shares with others as in sharing is caring.
That content does not belong to YouTube. And they also do not pay for 99% of it.
YouTube depends on people to use it for it's existence. They also depend on those users to upload content so that YouTube can then treat that content as if it is its own and monetize it.
If I was in such a precarious position I wouldn't go about making the experience crappy for those users that I'm desperately dependent upon.
Well, it seems like you aren’t part of the target audience.
Luckily there are other options out there for you!