And this is very evident whenever you’re outside the lemmy / technically skilled bubble, on reddit and many other places, whenever the topic of YouTube ads / premium come up, a surprising proportion of the comments will be to the effect of “just pay for premium” and “premium is so worth it” or “yt premium is the most valuable subscription out of them all”. People don’t seem to care that so much of the value of premium is avoiding a problem entirely fabricated by YT.
I agree with your basic point, tho to be fair, server costs are a thing, so it’s more like a problem fabricated by… capitalism? the commercialization of the internet? The centralization of resources? I guess it depends on what you think the long-term solution is.
Yeah I’m more talking about everything they do in addition to make the non-premium experience more painful. The incentive is to make it as annoying as people are willing to tolerate with dark patterns and little irritations. That kind of thing is entirely done on purpose, and I think it’s gross to have to capitulate.
Because while you and I will just not use their product, many people just accept it and go with the flow because it’s easy.
And this is very evident whenever you’re outside the lemmy / technically skilled bubble, on reddit and many other places, whenever the topic of YouTube ads / premium come up, a surprising proportion of the comments will be to the effect of “just pay for premium” and “premium is so worth it” or “yt premium is the most valuable subscription out of them all”. People don’t seem to care that so much of the value of premium is avoiding a problem entirely fabricated by YT.
I agree with your basic point, tho to be fair, server costs are a thing, so it’s more like a problem fabricated by… capitalism? the commercialization of the internet? The centralization of resources? I guess it depends on what you think the long-term solution is.
Yeah I’m more talking about everything they do in addition to make the non-premium experience more painful. The incentive is to make it as annoying as people are willing to tolerate with dark patterns and little irritations. That kind of thing is entirely done on purpose, and I think it’s gross to have to capitulate.