• Tja
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    1 month ago

    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.

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      1 month ago

      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

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        30 days ago

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

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            30 days ago

            Oxygen is not produced by workers. Electricity, bandwidth, storage, security, software, video content are all produced by workers.

            For a commie you are quite unaware of the means of production…

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            30 days ago

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

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

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                30 days ago

                Advertisers pay Google when your watch ads. Goole pays the creators (and utilities, and rent, and employees, and…). By not watching ads, all those people are not getting paid, hence you are stealing.

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                    29 days ago

                    Even if you were right (which you aren’t, ads don’t work like that) it would change the fact you’re stealing.

                    Does lying to yourself makes you feel less guilty?