• archonet@lemy.lol
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    17 hours ago

    and it’s a multi-billion dollar corporation, that already makes more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetimes, that actively strives to make the user experience worse for people who don’t pay, when they’ve got a practical monopoly in the “free video sharing platform” market. And you’re whiteknighting for them. 🤡

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      6 hours ago

      By Darwin you see a lot. I was merely stating that I think YouTube premium is worth the price I pay for it.

      Is there no product you are satisfied with? Your life must be pretty bleak.

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      17 hours ago

      more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetimes

      I mean, I feel like you need to expand your comparison a little as the amount that you’ll see in your lifetime is such a minute grain of sand on a beech compared to corporate profits. The money they made today, hell, in the last hour… minute… will dwarf the amount that you will likely see.

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      16 hours ago

      actively strives to make the user experience worse for people who don’t pay

      And evidently those who do! My parents live in a different country. What are they, not my family? What’s the family plan for? (Rhetorical question)

      With Vanced I have so many more options to customize my experience. I can hide shorts I never watch, set a fixed resolution for data and wifi, return the stupid dislike ratio they removed… And if I’m using Vanced anyway to fix all the issues they introduce, why on earth would I additionally pay for their service?

      I want to pay for their shit, especially to support content creators, but I can’t support a platform whose singular mission it is to make everything worse for everyone constantly. Feels like every month I have to get a new extension to undo some horrible design decision.

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      13 hours ago

      whiteknighting

      was a weak-ass criticism when it was on 4chan being leveled at anyone who said anything not derogatory about a woman, and it’s weak-ass now. Oh no, someone on the internet has an at-least-partially positive opinion of a company, how awful, we’d better stereotype and body-shame them for it.

      If you had your way, the only comments about YouTube - or any other product from a large company - that would be allowed would be negative ones. How the fuck does that make sense?