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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by jdhwosnhw on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:15AM (#46058159)
I would genuinely like to understand this perspective. Ads or paying for premium is how the underlying business makes money. The UX might suck but you have a choice - you can just not watch YouTube. The approach you describe (which i understand is a popular one) is equivalent to justifying robbing a store because their prices are too high.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by aembleton on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:36AM (#46058418)
The approach is the equivalent of avoiding the end of aisles so that you don't even look at the products that companies are paying to the store to promote.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by jdhwosnhw on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:37PM (#46060092)
Except in this case the only way the store makes money is either by you paying an entrance fee or by you looking at the products. You are being delivered a service (whose delivery costs money) while actively circumventing the mechanism the store employs to be compensated for that service.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by allarm on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:25AM (#46058281)
It’s not a robbery if noone is getting robbed. That’s a very bad analogy really.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by jdhwosnhw on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:35PM (#46060069)
You are using a service without paying for the service by actively circumventing the payment mechanism. Is that not stealing?
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by asldfkasgkj on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @03:48PM (#46062141)
Is it okay if I go the bathroom or get another beer while the commercials play? If so, why?
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by jdhwosnhw on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @05:47PM (#46063191)
Thats like saying the grocery store is ok with me eating some of the grapes while I shop so they must be ok with me walking out without paying for my groceries.

I’m not trying to be obtuse here. I really want to understand some sort of reasonable moral justification for actively avoiding paying for a service that you are using / circumventing the mechanism by which the business makes money.

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by AlexeyBelov on Friday November 28, 2025 @12:37AM (#46075819)
> circumventing the mechanism by which the business makes money

This is generally of no interest to consumers.

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by jiehong on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @02:39PM (#46061500)
YouTube is the content, not the box.

You might like the content, but you don’t pay for a shit box anyways.

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