• grill@thelemmy.club
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    Yeah, but I’m sure a lot of people just bought youtube premium. I know my friend did…stupid idiot.

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      I wonder how business owners feel about their advertisements being weaponized to push people toward subscription plans that eliminate advertisements.

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        Google doesn’t give a shit what their advertisers think. It’s not a “please buy our ads” situation, it’s a “where else would you advertise online, you stupid fuck?” type of situation.

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          Google reached that position by keeping the platform pleasant till no one else was left standing. That should be an antitrust activity in any free market. Remember this when you see Google gaslighting you about the moral implications of using adblocks.

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        People that were running ad blockers were not seeing ads and business owners were not paying for those blocked ads. So I don’t see why they would care at all.

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          True, but people who used to be served one ad per video are now being served 4 or 5, which both lessens the value of each individual ad, and gives more incentive to get rid of them with premium

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        I could justify the AU$30 per month for myself and my housemate, but at AU$43, they can GAGTGF.

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          GAGTGF?
          I have no idea what this means, but I feel like it’s probably something I’d like in my back pocket to pull out and throw in someone’s face…kinda like pocket sand.

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            I tried to take a stab at it, but I’m coming up empty.

            Go And Get Totally Gang Fucked
            Get A Grip To Get Fucked
            Give A Gummer Then Get Fucked

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              I just typed about 6 things, not a one made half as much sense as what you had.
              I give you an A for affort!

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            GAGYGF is Go And Get Your Guts F… GAGTGF substitutes “Your” for “Their”. “GagyGoof” does roll off the tongue a bit better than “GagTeeGoof”.

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        I use Hetzner’s Storage Share (which is a nextcloud instance) as my drive and pay around 5€ / mo for 1 TB. Depending on the features you want you could also use their Storage Box which is more like a plain network drive, and cheaper… like 13€ / mo for 5 TB.

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          Why not just get the storage box and run the Nextcloud instance with the storage box mounted? Just curious.

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        damn here in Egypt it’s a dollar a month for students or 2 for others. even with the purchasing power difference its a pretty good deal

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      I’ve had YouTube premium from the inception of their subscription model prior to/at the beginning of YouTube red, as I initially had a paid Google music subscription.

      Personally, there isn’t a better option for the amount of hassle involved in my opinion. It’s a family account, and managing so many people’s YouTube experiences on at least a dozen different devices would be a nightmare I don’t want to think about. (Multiple of each TV’s, Roku’s, Android phones, iPhones, pc’s, etc)

      This isn’t really relevant to your friend, it is quite silly when it’s just one person not willing to do it for just themselves.