• JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I can’t speak for everyone, but I block ads and don’t pay because I hate Google. In addition to their repeated violations of user privacy, they go out of their way to disable OS features unless you pay them. Like disabling background play or PiP with Safari on iOS. Those features use the same open standards as foreground web browsers, so it literally takes extra effort to break them. Effort that could instead be used to fix the numerous problems with their platform, which they don’t. I refuse to reward that behaviour.

    • oh_that_courtney@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      One of the reasons I’m willing to pay is because I want the creators I watch to get the revenue to make more videos. (Although, without knowing for sure, I’d bet they get more off sponsorships than they do out of subscriptions or inserted ads.)