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shoulderoforion to Technology@lemmy.world • 5 months ago

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shoulderoforion to Technology@lemmy.world • 5 months ago
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  • @Tja@programming.dev
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    -9•5 months ago

    Well, then don’t go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:

    • creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch
    • disk space to store it
    • bandwidth to send it around the world
    • compute to transcode it and process it
    • real estate and security for the premises
    • power for the datacenter
    • ac to cool the servers
    • wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure
    • wages of devs for the app
    • yes, profits for the company

    Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don’t act like you are morally entitled to do it.

    • @tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world
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      15•5 months ago

      I would agree back in like 2010 but YouTube ads got so cancerous over the years that I won’t give them money (Premium) out of principle until literally nothing works anymore.

      use PeerTube

      lmao

      • @Tja@programming.dev
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        -8•5 months ago

        You’re welcome then (since my fees subsidize your watching).

        • @tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world
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          3•5 months ago

          I am grateful mylord

          • @Tja@programming.dev
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            -7•5 months ago

            Rejoice!

    • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      0•5 months ago

      blocking ads is not stealing

      • @Tja@programming.dev
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        -1•5 months ago

        Is using up resources without paying for it. It’s stealing by any definition.

        • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2•5 months ago

          watching ads doesn’t transfer money to YouTube. not stealing.

          • @Tja@programming.dev
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            -1•5 months ago

            Watching ads absolutely does transfer money to YouTube, how do you think Google exists??

            It’s astonishing how naive (or obtuse) people can be.

            • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              3•5 months ago

              advertisers pay google. I don’t pay google by watching ads.

              • @Tja@programming.dev
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                -1•5 months ago

                Advertisers pay Google when your watch ads. Goole pays the creators (and utilities, and rent, and employees, and…). By not watching ads, all those people are not getting paid, hence you are stealing.

                • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  1•5 months ago

                  advertisers pay google when google tells them I watched an ad. not when I do it

                  • @Tja@programming.dev
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                    0•5 months ago

                    Even if you were right (which you aren’t, ads don’t work like that) it would change the fact you’re stealing.

                    Does lying to yourself makes you feel less guilty?

        • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2•5 months ago

          who do you pay for all the oxygen you use up?

          • @Tja@programming.dev
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            1•5 months ago

            Oxygen is not produced by workers. Electricity, bandwidth, storage, security, software, video content are all produced by workers.

            For a commie you are quite unaware of the means of production…

            • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              2•5 months ago

              seems like you aren’t aware of communist opposition to private property.

              • @Tja@programming.dev
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                1•5 months ago

                Wages have nothing to do with property.

                • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  2•5 months ago

                  they absolutely do

                  • @Tja@programming.dev
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                    0•5 months ago

                    They don’t, you’re just trying to change the subject to distract from your subconscious telling you you’re wrong.

                • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  1•5 months ago

                  Removed by mod

                  • @Tja@programming.dev
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                    5 months ago

                    Removed by mod

    • @Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world
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      -16•5 months ago

      Removed by mod

      • Zippythezigzag
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        12•5 months ago

        Am I on Reddit again?

      • @Tja@programming.dev
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        1•5 months ago

        Nah, I’d rather watch YouTube. Ad free, too.

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