Somehow paying for Netflix is fine but god forbid I want to watch a 10 hour loop of the DS9 intro without ads.
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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I think most people are angry with YouTube premium because it's a service that doesn't give you anything. It's a service where they stop annoying you. But it doesn't unlock anything new that you didn't have before, doesn't give you access to content or data you don't have access to, it doesn't improve the service. It just removes the annoyances they put there deliberately. So people are a little angry about it
It's a protection racket, for your attention and time.
And on top of that, Youtube's annoyances are implemented client-side -- in other words, by co-opting your own machine, your property that you own, and turning it against you to serve someone else's interests.
Youtube is free to choose not to serve me content in the first place, but once they do and it's on my machine, it is my property right to control the computation of my machine however I want. I have just as much right to block ads as I do to write in the margins of a paper book I bought.
Edit: why the downvotes? Do y'all hate property rights or something?
Agreed. If you get the data you should be able to interpret it how you like
I take the same philosophy for radio signals, if the signal's going through my head physically, I should be able to listen to it
That's why we should have the right to listen to every phone call happening near us
If the electrons are passing through your head, record that signal! Have fun with it