You pay either just with money (Youtube premium) or by watching ads...
NYC subway has tons of ads and is constantly have problems, this thread comparison is horrible.
And if you have YouTube Premium and don't have Sponsorblock, you're still watching ads.
Which proves something about ads: there's a law of conservation of ads. If you're not claiming the ad space, your upstream suppliers will.
Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
by chiefalchemist on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:11AM
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> but it’s free to use
This is false. Nothing is free.
We watch ads. We are tracked like animals. That time, attention and loss of privacy *is* payment. For this, it’s reasonable to expect a service that aspires to rise above shit-show.
Is free software free?
Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
by chiefalchemist on Sunday July 05, 2026 @01:10PM
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Answering you is not worth the cost to me. Yes, it’s ironic because that is the answer.
If you can’t figure it out on your own. If you can’t think like an economist, then please ask your favorite LLM.
This isn’t Reddit.
and that's why trains work but you have to pay a higher price to use it, while youtube is shitty, and breaks often, but it's free to use.
It is about the trade offs - not the trade offs that someone talks about passively, but actual action based trade offs; ala voting with their feet.