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Just pay to remove the ads
That makes the privacy issues with YouTube worse. They can link your YouTube watch history with your identity
They can already do that without paying
Not if you use anonymizing software
Honestly agreed. I hate that we don't have a good open alternative to YT, but as long as you can afford it buying premium seems like a decent alternative.
@normalmighty @RagingRobot, well, you can use front-ends like CloudTube, Invidious instances, Piped or an Desktop client like FreeTube.
You can also watch YouTube sandboxed searching the video with Andisearch and viewing it in the search results.
https://andisearch.com
Sure I could but I could also just pay $8 or whatever it is and the creators that I watch get a small portion of the money. I like them tracking the videos I watch so that I can look back and find the ones I liked.
I'd love to subscribe to premium, but in my country they have disabled it. It is basically not possible to remove ads even when I want to pay, lmao. So, duck them, give me my vanced/revanced
@RagingRobot, sure you can also pay to be able to see the menu of a restaurant, to see what you might like or not. Why do you think why more and more artists put a video of theirs on YT for free and the rest move to Bandcamp to sell there?
It's because of the ads and what YT charges for the premium account, they see pennies.
If YT would pay them fairly, artists wouldn't need to undergo the beating of a concert-to-concert tour to earn their money from ticket and direct sales of their records.
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