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[ambulocetus@mefi.social]

@RedKoba @cmconseils
I'm so old that I remember when our state first got Cable Television. The big feature was that we could all watch movies with no ads. Pretty soon it was you could watch movies with no ads on certain channels. Then it was if you paid extra for premium channels, you could watch certain movies without ads sometimes. That's when I got rid of Cable.

[noortjevee@mstdn.social]

@cmconseils exactly.....its why i mostly use ways to jot see adds for free

[flowermob@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils With Firefox and Ublock Origin, I don't see ads ever.

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils
#altText by AI isn't good, is it?

[orionkidder@mas.to]

@liquidlamp @renardboy @Legit_Spaghetti @cmconseils Sponsorblock is *magic*.

[orionkidder@mas.to]

@cmconseils This is the heart of #enshittification. Making a given platform crap for users is a side effect of making only one bridge between product and consumer and then sucking money out of both of them.

attn: @pluralistic

The meme, above, kinda captures your concept.

[u2be@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils

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[orionkidder@mas.to]

@DenOfEarth @cmconseils @pluralistic Rentiers. Yup. They provide nothing. Only squat on a space and insist that no matter who's on it, they have to pay.

[davebauerart@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils This is an interesting question! I think of it as paying the creators I watch with my money. Of course I am also paying Google.

[stilescrisis@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@OrionKidder @DenOfEarth @cmconseils @pluralistic I don't think it's quite that simple. Plenty of others have tried to run video hosting platforms and failed--pretty much only TikTok and Instagram have survived, and they're both much worse from an advertising perspective. It's extremely expensive to do well.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@cmconseils how much is it to just never watch YouTube at all?

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@bytebro @Legit_Spaghetti @cmconseils Brother, highjack away, nobody here will hold it against you I promise

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@liquidlamp @Legit_Spaghetti @cmconseils Dang that's crazy, didn't even know that existed.

[forgetpassword@unredacted.social]

@cmconseils we can use @brave and pay for nothing

[aserraric@social.tchncs.de]

@OrionKidder @DenOfEarth @cmconseils @pluralistic

To be fair, the infrastructure for Youtube is large and expensive. Does Youtube/Google make unreasonable profit? Absolutely. But they do provide something.

[schuga@mastodon.green]

@cmconseils
..and we also provide the content that people want to watch without adverts..