• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    Techbros really went full police state just to deliver ads I wouldn’t click on straight into my adblocker

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        I have a friend that pays Google a YouTube tax every month… He tells me he wants to support the creators.

        I’m just kind of sad for him… I tried to explain direct donations were a million times more effective, but he clearly just doesn’t want to learn how to use an adblocker.

        This guy is like 30 years old.

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          Why in the world would you think that someone paying to use a service is a problem? Sure direct donations are more helpful, but that doesn’t run servers to actually distribute the content you’re viewing. Your problem is completely different than what we are discussing about ad blockers.

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          Do you mean YouTube premium? Old YouTube music because they’re different things I think premium includes music actually but you can just have the music subscription.

          Youtube music is actually better than something like Spotify for creators, so it’s not the worst justification in the world.

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        It’s about to be a lot more with the chrome manifest update. I got my dad into chrome some 15 years ago and explaining why he should switch to Firefox is completely confusing for him. He thinks his own business listing on Google won’t work if he’s not using Chrome.

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        I’ve had people that refuse to use an adblocker because “the creators deserve to get paid”. Well, your funeral if you get malvertising…