• Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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    2 months ago

    What I’m not ok with YouTube premium :

    • The price is too high for a subscription. For that price I could get thousands of movies on a competing service like Netflix.

    • Even if you take YouTube premium they are still farming your data and selling it to third parties.

    So even if I watch a ton of YT I refuse to pay to sell my data.

    If I pay for YT they have to not track me and not sell my data (at least data coming from YT).

    So yeah taking YT is hassle free but is quite the scam if you think about it. Before paying you were the product. After paying you are still the product but on top of that you give them money.

    • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Your second point is specifically the reason I don’t pay for Premium. I would actually really like to but unless there is some kind of guarantee they won’t be double dipping, I’m not going to.

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      2 months ago

      Even if you take YouTube premium they are still farming your data and selling it to third parties.

      The big data-farmers like Google aren’t selling it to third parties. It’s worth far more if kept to themselves and used to build an ad platform.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      As long as people are actually willing to get scammed (and boy did the threshold get low in the last decades), scammers will scam.