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-14 points

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.

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13 points

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.

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

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5 points

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

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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.

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2 points

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.

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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

Not to mention their genocide profiteering: https://www.mintpressnews.com/project-nimbus-billion-google-amazon-partners-israel/280087/

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10 points

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

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https://www.mintpressnews.com/national-security-search-engine-google-ranks-cia-agents/281490/

I’d like to think they’re advising on how to keep ISIS propaganda, gore / executions, child endangerment, etc, from popping up on clearnet results…

…but * sigh * , former (not ex, let’s be honest lol) spooks…so, why wouldn’t it include some kind of pro-employer propaganda plan, right?

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They already have your information, bud. Sorry.

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5 points

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

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2 points

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.

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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

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13 points

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!

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Yeah but my aging parents can’t, it’s about effort. Of course I could set up something that gets around all of it but then I still have to pay for their music streaming on their phone. And the second something breaks I’m not with them to fix it.

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8 points

A very hot take on Lemmy.

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1 point

Indeed.

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