Comment by jdhwosnhw
3 days ago
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.
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.
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.
YouTube is the content, not the box.
You might like the content, but you don’t pay for a shit box anyways.
It’s not a robbery if noone is getting robbed. That’s a very bad analogy really.
You are using a service without paying for the service by actively circumventing the payment mechanism. Is that not stealing?
Is it okay if I go the bathroom or get another beer while the commercials play? If so, why?
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