• FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    It depends how many hours per month you use it I guess.

    I am fine paying for Netflix (it is quite cheap here as well) which I watch probably at least 20-30 hours per month but not for youtube which I use for the music maybe an hour per week or less.

    YouTube frequency of commercials is unacceptable. If they were to play a commercial every half an hour or so, I would say it is too often but I would understand it.

    They don’t, they try to play a commercial every other song start, so every 7-10 minutes. They are taking a piss.

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      24 days ago

      edit: for context, I have 7000 hours of uninterrupted streaming on YouTube. It’s been well worth the cost to me. But this is with the model being ad-free. If that ever changed I would need to re-evaluate my position, but I do like that my subscription can give support to creators (support which is larger per view than that of an ad user) at the same time.

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                24 days ago

                That’s precisely what I meant. For so many hours it may as well be worth it. Not for an occasional user.

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                  24 days ago

                  Yeah, I wasn’t trying to be rude though I get that the pic without context came off pretty odd. I was just trying to illustrate to others how it would actually be worth not having ads blasted in your face for 7000 hours.

                  If premium turns ad-supported I will re-evaluate my decision, of course.

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                    24 days ago

                    I was just trying to illustrate to others how it would actually be worth not having ads blasted in your face

                    Yes, 100%. It is all matter of the context. If I was using YouTube at least the same number of hours as netflix (at least - as YouTube does not create anything themselves) I would definitely consider it. Or if the price was much, much lower than netflix.

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      25 days ago

      I don’t get any commercials now and I use it for all kinds of stuff from educational videos to hours and hours of things like D&D streams. It’s all worth it.

      You pay nothing for it and complain about commercials. I don’t want to go shilling for corporations but whining about Youtube paying the bills is just sad, bud.

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          24 days ago

          You responded to my comment about being ok with paying to not get ads by saying that one ad every thirty minutes would be too much for this service you just expect to get for free. It’s not a necessary utility, deal with it.

          No amount of reading comprehension on my end will make up for the lack of it on yours.