• Humanius@lemmy.world
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      It really boils down to a few reasons:

      • I don’t like ads, and I prefer not to see them
      • Running a platform like YouTube is not cheap, and I understand that Google needs money to keep things running.
      • The revenue of Premium is split between YouTube and the creators, much like ad revenue is. So it also supports the channels that I follow.
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          That hasn’t stopped me from using other Google services like Gmail, Docs, or Drive either.

          If I ever decide I want to opt out of Google’s ecosystem I’ll just serve them a GDPR data deletion request.
          That’s what I did when I deleted my Twitter account as well.

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          If you don’t want to be tracked, you shouldn’t own a smartphone.

          Because let’s face it, you’re never going to be able to stop it unless you get rid of all your tech.

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            Imo it should be a choice whether we are tracked for monetary gains or not, and not a necessary evil. But with most basic services/devices you are not even presented with that choice. E.g. when buying a phone.

            And if you do have a choice, sometimes accessibility is restricted so much that you can’t participate in our networked society.

            I think we have to find ways to provide access to the most basic services with a minimum of tracking. Anything else should still be an option of course.

            How to achieve this? I don’t know. But EU regulations certainly wouldn’t hurt for now.

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            You’re objectively wrong. You can have a fully free and open source android rom without any spyware (not even from google) and be free, and I also use Piped for watching youtube because I don’t have a google account. Check out privacy communities on lemmy.

            Edit: And about getting rid of all tech, of course you can’t be 100% independent and have 100% privacy, but you can mitigate most of it if you know what you’re doing.

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              Many years ago I tried that, and found out that privacy is possible, but the cost is incredibly high.

              By using pi-hole I was able to find out if my mobile phone was communicating with Google. As long as I had GAPPS on LineageOS, there was plenty of traffic. When I removed GAPPS, the traffic went quiet, but my phone became severely crippled.

              Sure, I still had some smart apps on my smartphone, but I was also cut off from my bank, so basically living without money in todays society. Not really a viable option. Also, updating apps from fdroid was incredibly inconvenient, but I hope that issue has been fixed now.

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        I didn’t know the channels get some of the revenue. Do you get to influence who the money goes to? Like a twitch prime sub?

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          It replaces the ad revenue the channel would otherwise have gotten from your view, at a higher rate than an ad impression.

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      For me its solely because of a ad free experience on my TV, since its the primary device I’m using it on. And i got it relatively cheap from turkey so it’s not that big of a deal. I might reevaluate if the price increases though.

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      It’s not bad if you max out the family subscription (5 members) and use YouTube music.

      Still, I’m a hypocrite because I absolutely hate their habit of hiding features behind the paywall, and making ads more obnoxious to irritate users into paying for premium.

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        Ya’ll should just VPN to Argentina and get the sub for cheap, it’s a few bucks per month compared to the obnoxious 13.99.

        I pay around 2€ for mine per month plus the VPN fees, it’s a no-brainer