• meat_popsicle@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    All that paying does is prove you’ll pay whatever they want. Just like a blackmailer, it’s never enough. They always escalate in their attempts to extract “value”.

    It’s the same damn story, time after time. “Oh, we put a few ads to cover expenses - it’ll be limited, we promise.” 3 months later: “We have a premium plan that hides ads.” Another 3 months: “We now have informational banners on premium for our own content. Since it’s our own, it’s totally not an ad!”

    Then just: “Pay us a monthly rate and get served ads.”

    It’s like fucking clockwork with these ghouls.

    • Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Probably just a morality thing. Even though some creators have spoken against its use because the experience is bad

      • QuazarOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Yeah but they couldn’t possibly shut down each and every instance

        …right? I reall hope this statement doesn’t age badly

        • seang96@spgrn.comEnglish
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          2 years ago

          If they make it hard enough that they cannot host their code repo then they can’t maintain it, it should be shutting them all down.

          • QuazarOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Well yes, eventually, when they introduce breaking changes in YouTube.
            Even so, I believe that today you can very well keep developing software even if you were not allowed to, unless you started committing with an account that personally identifies you, you can move to another hoster or host your own forge, maybe host it over Tor too, or try out the kinda experimental radicle.xyz (btw, why/when did they make their website uglier? It was so much better before)

    • ash@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      does this support 4k? Anything i’ve used that says they do actually don’t. FreeTube, Invidious, Piped