• @[email protected]
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    4 days ago

    The only mistake Billy made is giving anything to AdBlock Plus, the people who have sided WITH the ads, instead of uBlock Origin, the true MVPs of the ad blocking world. I guess uBlock doesn’t accept donations unfortunately, but still, ABP is shady and I would not support them.

    • lad
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      243 days ago

      uBlock Origin is also not piracy, but it is the real way to block

    • @[email protected]
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      223 days ago

      Technically we are just keeping the waters clean of unusable, useless garbage. The ad corps are invading our waters.

  • @[email protected]
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    333 days ago

    If you buy premium, do it to support the creators you watch, fuck doing it just for no ads.

      • @[email protected]
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        321 hours ago

        Yes, but if I was only doing it for no ads, I’d rather just use ad block. Instead, I’m doing to to support the creators I watch in the laziest way possible, because I’m letting Google do all the work to spread the money out.

    • @[email protected]
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      333 days ago

      If you love a creator buy their merch, sub their patreon, mail them a coupon for a free sandwich, but for fuck’s sake DON’T buy youtube premium to try and support them.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 day ago

        Why not?

        If i am going to be supporting creators I think YT premium would be the way I would do it.

        YouTube Premium is super helpful in distributing money automatically to creators without needing to think about it.

        I have many many creators I tune in and out of I am not going to be trying to manage all of their patreons and trying to manage all of that.

        Honestly I have to much crap already, 99% of merch is just garbage IMO that i will never use and don’t need.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 days ago

        I lack the money to buy something from every creator I watch (literally over 100 channels subbed to), and premium genuinely does pay them more than ads. Sure, like half is going to google, but it’s definitely the easier way to support the creators that does actually pay them.

        • Daniel Quinn
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          52 days ago

          Nebula might be the answer for you. A low annual fee means every video you watch gives a portion of that fee to the artist.

          • @[email protected]
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            62 days ago

            The majority of the people i subscribe to aren’t on Nebula, so that wont help a whole lot.

    • @[email protected]
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      414 days ago

      Yeah, if your going to support something support the open source project that doesnt advertise