Stumblinbear @ Stumblinbear @pawb.social

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You'd be surprised. Half the cost of premium goes to creators, and making $5-7 per user per month through ads is definitely doable. That equals pretty much exactly the cost of premium

I personally don't value YouTube Premium because I know nothing goes to content creators except for the fact that it covers ad revenue income without showing ads.

Uh. Half of the cost of premium gets distributed to the creators you watch, and it's a non-insignificant amount of money.

Hard to say they're stealing when you give consent by agreeing to their ToS

Google isn't entitled to make money by simply hosting reaction videos and hyperbolic political commentary.

This just in: man thinks storage, computing power, and bandwidth is free!

I have premium and have never seen this before

I'm not really certain what value nebula provides other than some creators uploading occasional content exclusively on nebula. Without nebula they'd just... Upload it to YouTube, which is free, so I'm not sure what the difference is

So it's not Firefox

Anything is better than nothing. Besides, it's still useful because you can see where the original link was copied from, and you still have the referrer header

I like the post but had to downvote it because the English is atrocious

There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with "utm_"

Oh sure I'm not a huge fan of the GPU shortages, though very few crypto things need them anymore

a solution for a non-existing problem

Depends entirely on where you live and if you trust your government, but yes the USA and most Europen countries are fine in general. I personally just prefer anything that can be decentralized. That's why I'm on Lemmy, after all, haha

Which shitshow? Imo that's like saying the internet is forever stained by whatever "shitshow" there was. It's just a technology, there are good and bad applications

One could argue that we're paying for it without our consent

One could argue that the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists. That doesn't make it remotely true.

Google doesn't pay anything in taxes

Uh. Google pays a shitload in taxes. There hasn't been a single year that they HAVEN'T paid taxes. They paid 11 billion in income taxes alone in 2022.

DDG doesn't really compare to Google search results. I can hardly find anything I'm looking for when it's pretty much always on the first page of Google

Which is really unfortunate because there are some actually useful, neat projects

Nebula can only afford to do that because basically nobody who subs to nebula actually watches the videos on it. They did a video about their revenue model and people treat it as a way to support the creators, not to actually watch content

They'd absolutely 100% be losing money with a $2 ad free tier. Ads make significantly more than that per user per month. Same with your """solution""" for higher res video. Bandwidth is goddamn expensive.

I mean you didn't buy it before so why would you now? You don't need excuses. You just don't want to pay for it. Own it.

Honestly, I'd be fine with even 20. Much more than that and I'd be questioning it pretty hard. I watch YouTube tons and know how goddamn expensive cloud bandwidth is so I'm biased

Probably because it's less noisy in small text