• @FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    7 months 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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      7 months 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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                7 months ago

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

                • no banana
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                  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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                    17 months 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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      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.