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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm on it daily. A ton of hours between watching videos and enjoying the music catalogue. It's definitely the only reason I don't mind paying premium. No complaints.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My unpopular opinion is that YouTube has every right to enforce ads on their platform if you're not paying for the service.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The service where they crowd sourced 2/3 of their catalogue from "sharecare" pirate bears?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Absolutely not our problem. They can come up with other business models. Maybe they can resurrect one of the hundreds of projects/business models from them at https://killedbygoogle.com/ and run with that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's much cheaper than the money they make on it though. Hence all the profits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Youtube operated at a loss for years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It hasn't operated at a loss anymore for years you mean?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

You mean when they started playing ads?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

oh, wait, i forgot about all the sharecare non-pirate bears that just upload good stuff for the careshare... you know, that other 3/12 of the catalogue...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm... at a loss. Can you rephrase these comments please?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

My friend is confused too, care to explain to me so I explain to him?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same here. My weekly usage is about 14h give or take 2h.
At least Youtube doesnt bother me anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same, but then trying to push shorts is annoying. I'm paying and m always dismissing the feature, take the fucking hint already

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The few shorts I do watch are only from my subs. After I watched the short, I exit and don't enter the doom scroll.
But I agree that thwy are trying harder then when tgey were introduced.