• Auli@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    What a BS excuse. I do it cause I like free stuff and I don’t have to watch the ads or pay for it. Which is the real reason everyone does it. But it well be an interesting next few years with the basically free money drying up in tech they well have to make money somehow. And I imagine a lot of people well cry when stuff folds or other things happen.

    • Noxvento@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Or users will just move on. Why stay and get fucked? See reddit --> lemmy. Not everyone will move on, and that’s fine. Let them watch ads and get spied on. That’s not for me.

      • ggadget6@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Lol YouTube as a business is basically impossible to run. There isn’t going to be a place to move on to.

      • Mike Stevens 🇦🇺 S23U@lemdro.idM
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        1 year ago

        Well, yeah, but right now lemmy is pretty convenient. No instances are asking users to pay or donate, and obviously many people would sooner flee to another instance than accept the idea of paying for the service they use. But that can’t work for an actual business.