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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

YouTube Premium is the only media subscription I pay for because it's the only one I consider worth it. I watch an unhealthy amount of YT, listen to tons of music, and even use YT as a kind of cloud storage for thousands of hours of recorded video.

[–] Lazhward@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I paid for premium, until they wanted PayPal to share my address with Google.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yup.

Family plan is 22$ for ad free yt and music subscription for 5 or 6 people

I get that Google bad an all that, but it's a good deal

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago

A very hot take on Lemmy.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago

Personally, considering I can get it for free, and that Google bad, $22 is a bad deal for me. I'd rather donate $20 to the groups helping us get around it, and spend the other $2 on jawbreakers!

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

I used to pay for it, for the same reasons. They stopped taking my money, i don't know why, and I noticed zero change in the quality of the service.

I'm paying for other google services, so I don't know why youtube specifically stopped. Oh well.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry for the down votes, you're 100% valid. YouTube Premium benefits me and the content creators I watch. Sure, it's more complicated than that, but everything is, and sometimes you just have to make choices that make your life a little easier.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Doesn't bother me, I know that it's an insanely hot take on Lemmy and reddit. I appreciate the vocal backup though.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago

You got backup from me too. Its the only subscription in our home.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I’d probably be paying for YouTube, if it were run by a normal media company instead of the world’s largest spy network and personal data broker. There’s no way in hell I’m giving them my credit card information.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah I don't really care about value when it comes to giving money to the guys who work with the NSA and CIA to find ways to more thoroughly spy on every user 24/7, and turned every search into "You asked for x, here's a dozen pages of what the State Department thinks you should have searched for instead"

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

It’s not even about the money, it’s literally about the credit card information, and the massive amount of data linked to it.

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 weeks ago

I would pay for a lot more things if I could do it anonymously

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago

Fair

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Do they not already know who you are and what you purchase anyway? I'm wondering how much of a difference it makes.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Whether they do or not, Google doesn’t know that that person is the same person as the one who is using YouTube.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Except....

They do already. That's info you can just buy.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago

As I just said, whether they already do or not is beside the point.

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They already have your information, bud. Sorry.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They quite literally don't have my credit card information. What are you even trying to say here?

[–] example@reddthat.com 0 points 4 weeks ago

how can you be so sure about that?

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Data gathering/brokering and payment information security are not really connected. PCI compliance standards are well standardized and fairly strict.

I would trust Google to handle payment information securely over any ‘media’ company.

If personal data was regulated at even the fraction of what payment data goes through we would all be better off.