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Weird to see this downvoted. Youtube is actually a good service that also isn't cheap to run, and it also pays good(?) money to the people producing popular content on the platform so why not pay for using it? Or, you know, live with the ad infestation. Businesses need money to run, and if you don't pay for the content, then either it's the ads or eventually the whole platform needs to be shut down.
It is a separate discussion if Premium pricing is appropriate etc. But it's quite horrifying to see people around the world having been taught into thinking that everything should be "free" even though at the same time everyone is complaining about privacy violation and ads being everywhere all the time.
Maybe the businesses shouldn't have created the expectation that everything was "free" then.
YouTube used to be 1 skippable ad at the start of the video. Now it's multiple unskippable ads throughout the video. If the 1 skippable ad wasn't a viable business model then they shouldn't have been pretending it was and then changing things later once people have gotten used to the "free" system.
I timed it today on an hour video. It's an ad every 3 minutes I got. This is fucking mental. 20 ads for an hour long video.
I rarely watch YouTube on chromecast, I will be watching less going forward
I was checking out Archer for streaming the other day and noticed the episodes were 22 minutes long, which means 8 minutes of commercials in that half-hour TV time slot, or 26.666% of the total time.
That's why I stopped watching TV in the first place, they're essentially offering to "pay" you 22 minutes of entertainment for every 8 minutes of ads you'll watch and that's just completely not worth it to me. Would you pay $2 to watch an hour-long show? If so, to watch ads instead, you'd pay them 16 minutes of your time, and your labor would be paid at a tad less than 8 dollars an hour in entertainment as currency. If you'd only pay a dollar, halve that.
I play games so that my entire 30 minutes is fun and I'll pay for it with the money I make at my job rather than paying the TV industry in minutes of my time..the thing I have the least of. It's this really weird setup that's just become accepted where they pay us out in entertainment at near minimum-wage rates for time spent trying to program us.
(Archer aside....on shit that ain't even that entertaining)
The whole fuckin thing isn't worth it.