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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Well, then don't go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:

creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch
disk space to store it
bandwidth to send it around the world
compute to transcode it and process it
real estate and security for the premises
power for the datacenter
ac to cool the servers
wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure
wages of devs for the app
yes, profits for the company

Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don't act like you are morally entitled to do it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would agree back in like 2010 but YouTube ads got so cancerous over the years that I won't give them money (Premium) out of principle until literally nothing works anymore.

use PeerTube

lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're welcome then (since my fees subsidize your watching).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am grateful mylord

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Rejoice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

blocking ads is not stealing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is using up resources without paying for it. It's stealing by any definition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (19 children)

who do you pay for all the oxygen you use up?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

watching ads doesn't transfer money to YouTube. not stealing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Watching ads absolutely does transfer money to YouTube, how do you think Google exists??

It's astonishing how naive (or obtuse) people can be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (57 children)

advertisers pay google. I don't pay google by watching ads.

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