• MucherBucher@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    The textbook this person owns:

    service provider: “Hello, I’m a window cleaner, do you want me to clean your windows? I’ll actually do it for free this time! Please recommend me to your peers”

    customer: “yes please”

    service provider: “all done! Want me to do it again in three months time?”

    customer: “yes, I love free stuff!”

    service provider: “actually, I’d have to charge for that, can’t work for free all the time.”

    customer: “Racketeering!”

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      9 months ago

      “Racketeering” is definitely the wrong word.

      I’ll put it like this. I think YouTube Premium is too expensive. I also think YouTube is too aggressive with it’s ads.

      I opt to send them that message by using an ad blocking service tailored to YouTube and paying the content creators in other ways.

      If the family plan weren’t 20 dollars a month to cover 2 accounts I would probably buy it. But they opted to offer only 1 or many never just 2.

      I’m capable of affording it. I pay nearly every major streaming service monthly even when I am not using them, so long as their cost is reasonable.

      YouTube Premium’s cost is not reasonable. Especially when you consider they are still collecting and making money off of your data in the end.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t see how the pricing for Premium is unreasonable. I do, however see, how they are too aggressive with ads. That’s why I said paying for premium is a better deal than watching ads. If you don’t agree with either compensation, don’t use their service