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Piracy as a quality of service issue (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am one of those suckers (:sigh) who paid for Youtube since it bundled Youtube Music with it. However, today I used the latter's Revanced version and it was so much customizable. Right from removing menu items to the stupid cast button Google has forced on us; it seems a billion dollar company can't compete with these folks who make their apps so much more serviceable.

I don't wish to go too much into the official Youtube client which too is tacked with things like Remix button and what not.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is not weird paying for certain things. I also pay for certain things, in fact, over time, I have slowly made my mind to pay for things that are one off payments over recurring subscriptions. I am typing this from Boost client which I purchased because I appreciated dev's work and it wasn't subscription hell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Exactly, yeah like I'm not trying to remove myself entirely from "society" - the physical law of entropy means that people need to put in EFFORT to make things happen, and that deserves to be recognized, plus the dev should have a proper means of support to be able to buy food, shelter, etc.

I even tip at restaurants wherever I go. I don't know if I'll be okay in the future - I don't own a home or know my retirement plans, but I don't think a few dollars will make the difference, but it can boost someone else's day and that's really something:-).

I really like Netflix's player, their CC options, and the quality of their streaming service. It's just too bad about the content going all over the place, and THAT part is actually not their fault.

Though I just could not do that for Google Music, when they pay the original artists so extremely little:-(.